This Photograph Is Proof

This Photograph Is Proof
(...also a brilliant song)

In September last year I had much praise for Flickr.

Now, I'm not so sure.

An increasing number of bugs accompanied by nonsensical workarounds, "database lag" issues, slow connection speeds, Yahoo!'s corporately/greedy buyout (which prompted this) and a lack of personal control are all contributing to a general loss of interest in using Flickr to host photos as a paying customer, despite it's strong appeal with the social networking aspects.

I've never been a fan with hosting personal data on sites other than my own, which probably explains why I don't have a gmail or del.icio.us account either. (that, and because my name was already taken! ;)

This particular bug - Changes have reverted back to old data - has been pestering me for the past few days and despite staff's timely and comprehensive support, there doesn't seem to be any explanation for why my set descriptions and some photos lose their changes over time.

I expect the description of the set in this photo to revert back to what it was before I applied some changes, ie. no link on "atmospheric optical phenomenon" and "South Africa" regressing to "back home".

We'll see...

Also, I've renamed the set to correct the typo: after all these years I just realised it's Crepuscular and not Corpuscular! Thank you wikipedia for unmiseducating me. Damn you stupid web page that contained the mistake and have since disappeared from the net!