A thanks to one, and all, about that Flickr thing

[pecunium]

Explore is Flickr's way of showing off the "most interesting" pictures for a given day.

There are those who regularly are in explore, with dozens, even hundreds, of pictures on the list.

To date I've had three.

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None of them were quick to make the list. The fastest was number 2, which popped on about a month after it was posted, and somewhere in the 300s. Alpenglow was at 155, and I wondered what a raft of hits would do.

The answer... knock it completely off the rack. Odds are, it shan't rise back up anytime soon.

So, the means of gaining #1 are still not clear to me. All in all, I don't really care. It would be nice to appear on the front page, but I am not, it appears, the sort of photographer who tickles the fancy of the magical donkey. I'll make do with the people who go all high-pitched when they see the photos (such as the framer, and his assistant, today who spent 30 minutes looking at small images online and telling me they were wonderful), or those who say, "we need to change the art on the wall here, can you have pictures to hang in a week?".

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I believe - I have had nothing in explore, ever, because, quote apart from the quality, I don't publicise my pictures to fifty communities - that favorites play into it as well, not just views.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

According to the various groups/people which poke about into the deducible elements of Explore, more than about 15 groups, and the interestingness drops.

Geotagging increases it. Tags have some input. Comments, favorites, etc. all play into it.

And none of it seems to be intuitive, nor obvious; based on what I've seen in explore, and of my things which have popped up.