Stig's Flickr Fixr

Updates your Flickr-experience. Increase display-size and quality of "old" photos, Show photographer's albums on photostream-pages, Photographer's other photos by tag-links, A fix to actually show a geotagged photo on the linked map - - - And maybe more to come later...

As of 2015-08-27. See the latest version.

Author
Stig Nygaard
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Version
2015.08.27.3
Created
2015-08-26
Updated
2015-08-27
License
N/A
Applies to

Early "preview version".

Current features:

  1. (*) Increase display-size and quality of "old" photos:
    On Flickr photos uploaded before March 2012 are only available for browsing in versions up to 1024 pixels wide or high, and on photopages or photopages in lightbox-mode the photos are not upscaled even if browser-window is much larger. With Stig's Flickr Fixr the photos are first upscaled to fill space in browser-window. Secondly the script looks for availability of original uploaded version of photo and if found it replaces the 1024px version with the original. Note, many photographers doesn't make their originals available, but when they do, this can significantly improve the photo display quality on for example 24+ inch desktop monitors.
  2. Show photographer's albums on photostream-pages:
    Stig's Flickr Fixr adds a right column on photostream pages, teasing the 10 first albums from the photographer. Unless photographer has re-ordered the albums in Organizer, the 10 first albums are the latest 10 albums created by the photographer.
  3. Photographer's other photos by tag-links:
    On Flickr, tag-links on a photo currently leads you to a page where you can explore your own photos with this tag, photos from people you follow with this tag and a global search for photos with this tag. But the (second?) most obvious, photos from the same photographer with this tag is not an option. Stig's Flickr Fixr adds this option by adding a link directly on the tag (when hovering it) pointing to current photographers photos with this tag.
  4. A fix to actually show a geotagged photo on the linked map:
    Currently when a photo is geotagged on Flickr you can follow a link to a map showing the location where the photo was shot. However this map does normally only show latest or most "interesting" photos in the area. Usually the photo you was looking at is not included on map or in the image-strip below the map. Stig's Flickr Fixr adds the photo you came from to the image-strip below the map, and "opens" it. To see exactly where it was taken, click twice on this photo in the image-strip to close and re-open it; Now a star shows on the map pointing to the exact position of the photo.

(*) A few additional notes regarding the first feature:
Currently the script only do upscaling and potentially replacement on a standard photopage and on a photopage in "lightbox mode". It does not touch the "slideshow mode". But Flickr already do upscaling in slideshows. In a future version of the script I might try to add the possibility to replace with original also in slideshows.
Original photo files can be pretty big (megabytes). If you are on a slow connection or especially if you have an internet connection where you pay for the amount of traffic you use, you might not want this script installed right now. In a future version of the script I might make it possible to turn off unwanted features individually.
Flickr's zoom-feature does not work as expected on a photopage when the script has upscaled/replaced the photo. I might try to fix that in later version of the script.