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Share whole photostream
dusty spark says:
"Is there a way to share my whole photostream including Friends and Family photos?
....Just go to your photostream and click on the "Share this" button. When you share the stream or grab the link you will have the option to create a Guest Pass. This will let people see any photos in your photostream that you made available for friends or family. That means that until you expire the pass, people who use your Guest Pass can see all the photos in your whole account that are marked visible for friends or family, even if they aren't members. "
Where is this magic button "Share this" to share ALL pics?
Posted at 3:45AM, 21 May 2008 PST
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kktp_ says:
first page of your photostream you should see 'Share this' button on the top right below Search box.
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Gertrud K. says:
You need at least 1 public photo to see this button.
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dusty spark says:
Sorry, but not there.
I have 'search your photostream' to the left and the slideshow icon below the Search box.
There is nothing between the Search box and the Slideshow button.
Quite strange.
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dusty spark says:
Thanks for reply
Sorry, but not there.
I have 'search your photostream' box to the left and the slideshow icon below the Search box.
There is nothing between the Search box and the Slideshow button.
Quite strange.
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i_am_curiouskiwi says:
There seems to be an outstanding bug that you only see the Share This button if you have at least one Public photo... as Gertrud K. mentioned above.
So, upload a public photo and you should see the button.
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dusty spark says:
Thanks all - that worked, but how disappointing that it does not show Collections! - just a huge unsorted pile of album sets.
So in reality, it is rather useless with collections.
Have to really consider whether I continue with Flickr.
It does not work for me.
Appreciate the help nevertheless.
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ColleenM says:
Have you got your photostream page set to show collections?
Sounds like you've set it to only show sets.
At the bottom of the photostream page is a link to change how the page is arranged. Click that, and then click the layout that shows collections instead of sets.
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dusty spark says:
Thanks Colleen
Yes it is set to small+collections.
When a guest goes to the supplied url, they are greeted with a page full of individual pictures only.
There no sets & no collections visible at all.
At the page top is "You're surfing around Flickr on a Guest Pass from John Couvaras to see their photostream."
Photostream heading shows the normal "Sets - Tags - Map - Archives etc" and when the guest clicks Sets - then every set is then displayed.
Collection do not appear .
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RubyMae says:
Flickr has noted this is not a bug but rather by design. Therefore I refer to it (the need to have one public photo) as a design flaw. It's working as intended. Flickr does not intend for you to share your photostream if it contains no public photos.
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ColleenM says:
"Partly a feature and partly a bug" quote
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/71208/page2/#reply443906
Flickr only intended to keep you from sharing if you had only fully-private photos. They did not intend to keep you from sharing photostreams with private F/F images.
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i_am_curiouskiwi says:
Flickr does not intend for you to share your photostream if it contains no public photos.
Actually, it's not "no public photos" ... it's "only private-me photos". If your photostream contains "friend" and/or "family" photos (as in the OP's case), then it should be shareable, and the fact that it isn't is a bug (as referenced in Colleen's link).
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dusty spark says:
"Flickr does not intend for you to share your photostream if it contains no public photos"
Cannot agree with this, as Flickr clearly says "This will let people see any photos in your photostream that you made available for friends or family"
And it does. My gripe is that the display or presentation to "friends or family" is very weak, especially if you have collections - as they are totally excluded from the view! If one has a few collections (lets say 5) and each collection has a few sets (lets say 5 each) then the 'friend or family member has to know to go and click the SETS icon and is presented with 25 sets at random. If they do do click the Sets icon, the have pages and pages of photos.
Thanks all for your feedback.
I do not think there will be a satisfactory resolution until Flickr themselves get involved or really understand the issue.
From what I see on these forums, they do not seem particularly interested.
Alas, more school fees!
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RubyMae says:
This is why I suggested above that we resurrect the "share this official feedback thread." Perhaps flickr needs a nudge that this is still an issue (bug/design flaw, what have you).
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zyrcster says:
We either need to resurrect that thread or open a bug thread, since there is a bug about this noted in 3 running threads that has not yet been addressed.
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ColleenM says:
It's been noted by staff as a bug, but it hasn't been fixed yet.
www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/71208/page2/#reply443906
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RubyMae says:
I'll have to look at the thread again, but I was pretty sure that staff said it was designed this way.
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ColleenM says:
"The "Share this" button will be hidden if a member's account only contains fully private items. There's a bug in my code which is hiding the button if there are no items marked as public in your own photostream. The button should show if items marked as friends and/or family exist. I'm working on a fix for this right now."
What am I missing here?
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RubyMae says:
Well that was four weeks ago. I'd like to know if flickr is making progress, or whether this issue has been placed on the back burner (like changing the "public photo" wording).
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dusty spark says:
Colleen
Please re-read my last post. I believe it explains it pretty well.
I know some things can take time, but it appears the actual problem is not fully defined, so until that is done, not much can or will happen.
I had a long and hard think about this last night and decided to bite the bullet, and remove all my 1100 photos from Flickr, as quite frankly, if I cannot share them with some sort of structure (ie friends/family can see Collections and drill into the Sets) there is not much point in continuing.
I further submit that Flickr should ethically offer a 10 or 20 day trial period for the Pro Accts - so folk can see both the positives and negative of Collections, especially as Flickr does not spell out these facts clearly enough.
Thanks to all.
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ColleenM says:
John:-
I'm only trying to distinguish between a 'bug' problem (that Flickr is trying to fix), and a request for improvements in Flickr.
I understand what you are saying, but it isn't a bug. Flickr isn't designed to work the way you would like. The design changes you would like to see may or may not be in the works.
So, there is a bug in how the current design is executed, but what you are describing is not a bug. That part of the Sharing is working exactly the way it was designed to.
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