Update 6/7/2009: Still broken.
Update 6/6/2009: I’ve used Flickr import three times and it looks like Facebook fixed the problem.
Facebook has really taken off with the 35+ age group (which I am part of). I have been connecting with people I have not interacted with in 20 years.
As a result, I find myself using Facebook as a means to keep my friends up to date. One of the things I have come to depend upon was the Facebook Flickr integration. Using this tool, when I upload pictures to Flickr account my Facebook friends get a notice and see my photos.
Normally this works sporadically. For the past two weeks it does not work at all. And I can’t find a link to let me ask Facebook “Hey, am I doing something wrong?” This functionality used to work but now it completely doesn’t.
I can’t really complain or get upset simply because I don’t pay Facebook, so I’m getting my money’s worth. But I wish they could provide something better than “Please try again later”. I suspect that the two site’s API changed but I can’t see any meaningful error messages to help figure it out.
Johnny says:
Hmm … I should check mine. Probably broken as well.
June 4, 2009 — 1:50 am
Matt says:
Mine is broken too… used to work great and it stopped working just over a week ago. Been searching for an answer and no luck yet…
June 4, 2009 — 12:17 pm
Jan Dembowski says:
Facebook is a little quiet on the support side, but I guess that’s to be expected.
I just tried it today and it actually worked. My Facebook profile caught the last 5 pictures I uploaded.
Tonight I’ll be adding more Flickr photos, so I’ll see if it is still works later on.
June 4, 2009 — 1:50 pm
dave says:
mine has been spotty. The most recent hasn’t worked but my last upload appeared after a few days. ???
June 7, 2009 — 2:37 am
Jan Dembowski says:
Yep I just tried it. It’s still broken.
June 7, 2009 — 5:25 am
Rich says:
Broken for me too.
June 15, 2009 — 4:08 am
Jan Dembowski says:
Lately I’ve gotten lucky with trying multiple times until it imports. But it’s bizarre and should provide some reason for the erratic behavior.
June 15, 2009 — 6:15 am
Karsoe says:
Mine has always been flakey; either working badly (like always saying I’ve uploaded 5 photos to Flickr regardless of how many I’ve put up, or updating itself days after I’ve uploaded to Flickr) to just not working at all. It’s gotten a lot worse lately, but it’s never worked properly for me (at least 4 months now)
July 4, 2009 — 9:14 am
Jan Dembowski says:
Yep, it’s still flakey. I have gotten mine to work but only by constantly retrying until it’s successful.
Weird, it’s just inter app communication. It should just work.
July 4, 2009 — 9:17 am
Kris says:
Mine keeps staying at last update 17 hours ago and won’t auto-update but upon clicking the update now button a couple of times I got it to post the pics. I was really hoping to use it while traveling because I have a wifi camera and I upload to flickr with it.
July 23, 2009 — 12:14 am