Some very strange things are happening on the photo pages of users of Flickr. As of my first sighting of this at 8:00 PM tonight, it appears that on the second page, halfway down on some Flickr users’ photo streams, there are one or two photo’s whose thumbnails do not match the higher-resolution pictures viewable when the thumbnail is clicked on. Typically these thumbnails are pixelated and poorly scaled.
Two examples of this can be found on the second page, halfway down on my photostream for the fourth picture titled “Ice Storm” and the third entitled “The Nintendo Wii”.
In addition to this, it appears that for some, if not all photos, when the “all sizes” option is selected on the individual photo pages, an entirely different image is displayed.
An example of this can be found by clicking the “all sizes” icon on this page.
Hopefully this is just intermittent data center issues Flickr’s having and will improve soon.
Updates as they happen.
Update x1: Flickr’s typical ’system down’ message — “Flickr is having a massage.” — is up. Hopefully it’s just a minor glitch in the software and things will be back up soon.
Update x2: This entry was just posted on the Flickr blog. Apparently they had a small issue with their image cache and things should be up and running shortly. Hooray!
Update x3: According to the Flickr blog, everything should be in order now. If you still see mismatched images on photo pages, try emptying your cache, or do a hard refresh (I believe it’s shift + ctrl-r on Windows, not sure about Mac).
Fn+F5 is refresh for OS X - not 100% sure if it bypasses the cache, tho.
Comment by Andrew — February 20, 2007 @ 1:40 pm