How does flickr determine interestingness

Magic Donkey is just promoting a site that is extremely popular and addicting. LOL Hugs, Donkey. It's all controlled by Charlie Chuck. The first five I looked at have been Flickr members for at least two years, and are in many groups and have many contacts.

I think that this donkey is magic: -- from www. I don't even check Explore anymore I used to have a whole bunch in Explore, but haven't had a single one in the past months I have one photo with over views, over 50 comments and tons of faves, and it never got in Explore. I've just lost interest.

I think I've found out as much as I'm going to, as vague as the flickr staff is about it, but at least I now have a general idea. Flickr logo. If you click it, you'll go home. Sign Up Explore. Upload Sign In. Share it here. Click here to get started and to read our Forum Guidelines. I just uploaded some photos and immediately after that I checked interestingness and they already appeared in my photos above other older pictures.

They had no views or comments. How is that? It's a Magic Donkey. He looks at each file and nods yeah or neigh. In other words it's about 1K of LOC. It means that all your photos have the same interesingness, in this case they are ordered by date. I always figured it had something to do with literally how graphically different it is from most other pictures. Is that totally stupid? ALL Groups play minimal role in interestingness calculation.

So posting photo in too many groups can only decrease interestingness in some special cases and will never directly increase it. Why is one of my images sudenly dropped from the first place on the tag "amsterdam" to somewhere at page 5?

Because it suddenly became less interesting of course! Yeah, it probably got something to do with time. At this moment an older image is ranking at that first place, with only more views and less favs. So it must be tired of the image. Well, time will learn Slabbers, maybe it's because sooo many photos are tagged "amsterdam" that the Magic Donkey thought "Oh no, not yet another amsterdam pic Actually, Magic Donkey thought: "Oh I think the MD will go crazy on that one!

Amsterdam happens to be an excellent place to take photos! In my opinion everybody is carieing a camera in Venice! Slabbers, I got the same situation. Please check: flickr. Same photo, on different page. Banal, mostely; not interesting photos. Magic Donkey is on holiday and his subordinate Digger Mole is subbing. And Scout doesn't just update it's entire database every few hours.

It updates recent days more frequently and updates the database incrementally rather than all at once. The bottom line is this: if Scout says a photo dropped, then Flickr told Scout it wasn't in Explore at the exact moment that Scout asked. This happens when you change the privacy on a photo or replace it with a new photo or delete a photo. If you make a photo private, it drops out of Explore and Scout but because it is private the thumbnail can no longer be viewed.

When you replace a photo the photo ID is changed and the thumbnail is temporarily unavailable until the next update. In some cases, replacing a photo also causes it to drop out of Explore in which case it may never show up again. You can prune these from Scout by linking your account, viewing Dropped photos, and then clicking Remove. Photos pruned in this way will reappear if they come back into Explore. Photos can appear on multiple days if you change the date of the photo after it has been in Explore.

Since photos dropped from Explore don't have a ranking, Scout shows the last known ranking at the time it dropped. DNA shows photos that are currently in Explore as well as photos that used to be in Explore but are no longer there. Scout, by default, only shows photos that are currently in Explore.

Click "Include dropped" on the Scout page to include photos that used to be in Explore. Scout keeps a 10 day history of rankings and also tracks the highest ranking achieved for all time. Click the position change indicators red and green arrows or black dots next to the rank to view the history for a photo. Remember that photos are in Explore because their Interestingness is high enough now, today, at this moment.

Explore shows photos that currently have a high Interestingness score and Interestingness is recalculated constantly for all photos regardless of when they were uploaded. The date a photo was uploaded determines the box it occupies on the calendar.

A photo uploaded in could have been Interesting enough to be in Explore in but later dropped. Months, even years later, new activity on that photo could drive it's Interestingness up enough to show it in Explore again.

Views and faves are only part of the Interestingness ranking. Yes, that's true. Yes, that's true as of October Explore always counts days in Pacific Time for the purpose of displaying photos on the Explore calendar. There are several ways. You could delete it. Another way is to make the photo private. Only public photos are featured in Explore. You can also click the "Hide this photo from public searches" link on one of your own photos.

When you do that, it tells Flickr that you don't want that photo shown in public areas. No, not really. I am not affiliated with or employed by Flickr. If you're upset that your photos aren't in Explore, the best advice I can give you is this: convince yourself that it doesn't matter.

Because it doesn't. Will there be any Pro offers for Black Friday? Recent Activity Latest: 8 hours ago. Android App: "Post 0 photos"? Latest: 25 hours ago. Android App: Missing notifications Latest: 28 hours ago. Uploads timing out Latest: 34 hours ago. How does Flickr determine the 'interestingness' of a photo? ColleenM says: Flickr has a very complicated computer algorithm that calculates what they call "interestingness".

Elizabeth Thomsen says: And, yes -- there certainly are brilliant photographs here that never get seen, just like there are people with brilliant photographs piled in boxes at home that never get seen.