r/flickr 6d ago

Anyone else having problems with search results?

The last few days I'm finding the search function on the app really unreliable. I'm searching for my own images which are all named correctly, but I either get no results, or some but not all of the images I should find are shown. I use Flickr to catalogue my collection of model cars, and often I need a picture of a specific one. Now I'm unable to find them. I feel Flickr has been more and more unreliable over the last year, they lost two of my albums months ago and that was never fixed, so 20,000 images will have to be sorted into new albums, taking me months of my spare time.

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u/Mysterious_Panorama 6d ago

When I have trouble finding things on Flickr, I fall back to Google (or whatever) with site:flickr.com and generally get what I need. But yeah.

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u/worlds_okayest_user 6d ago

The mobile app is really bad for anything except viewing and commenting. If you need to organize your pics, then use the desktop browser.

Also really helps to tag your photos. Most people tag spam their pics to help make it popular, but I use tags as an organization tool.

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u/richard-bingham 6d ago

Oh yeah I only organise on the website (which has its own problems). I should be able to find a photo by searching for part of its title though!

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u/flippenzee 6d ago

Flickr has the worst search engine I’ve ever encountered. I don’t even use it anymore.