Flickr Interesting Groups

Interestingness is a secret tool of Flickr.com that is supposed to include many VooDoo rules to sort out what people prefer on the site and who is cheating to get on the explore page.

Some say some groups are blacklisted but it’s difficult to verify. Just to have a better idea of what’s going on behind and see who’s the most interesting group on Flickr.com, I put together this little tool.

16 January 2007, by Mortimer

If you find this list interesting, have a look at More Flickr Interesting Stats that provides statistics about camera models and softwares used for the top 50 interesting shots.

2010-07-30 16:38:37 CEST

The computation is simple but it makes a substantial amount of requests to flickr servers so the list will only be refreshed every 24 hours and only looks at the 50 most interesting images returned by flickr at that time.

It’s interesting (hehe) to see that 1-2-3 comment groups are quite up in the list, like HDR and Bokeh groups.

There is probably a bug as I can’t find a kitten dedicated group in the list

Date of online publication: 16 January 2007
last-update: 19 January 2007
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Flickr Interesting Groups
22 March 2007 19:49, by Toni

Mmmm... I’m sorry, but I’m unable to find the list nor any script. Am I missing something?? Thanks!
- Flickr Interesting Groups 23 March 2007 13:21, by Mortimer
  
  Sorry, I updated the site and kind of broke this feature. I’ll be working on it soon to put it back on. Stay tuned.
  - Flickr Interesting Groups 28 March 2007 00:57
    
    I Miss this..... it was interesting to see the changes
    - Flickr Interesting Groups 31 March 2007 21:57, by Mortimer
      
      Ok, I fixed the problems and it’s back.
      - Flickr Interesting Groups 3 April 2007 17:10
        
        Thanks a lot!
Flickr Interesting Groups
22 May 2007 14:13, by steeev

very interesting analysis! btw you can get an rss feed of flickr with most of the boring flower shots stripped out here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/InterestingFlickrNoFlowers
See online : flickr interestingness minus the flowers
- Flickr Interesting Groups 25 July 2007 02:10
  
  is it possible to have more photos analyzed, like all top 500?
  - Flickr Interesting Groups 29 July 2007 11:05, by Mortimer
    
    Well, right now, the way it’s done makes it quite slow if I go over 50 elements.
    - Flickr Interesting Groups 2 September 2008 18:59, by gaild
      
      the link seems to have been down for a while now, is there anywhere else I can get this - its such an interesting idea...
      - Flickr Interesting Groups 2 September 2008 22:55, by Mortimer
        
        hum you are right, all flickr connection of this site is down. I guess I’ll have to see what’s up, but I am over scheduled now... will have to wait until next months.
Flickr Interesting Groups
4 October 2008 13:05, by CORDAN

Will this feature come back? It was fun seeing which groups were getting in Explore more than others.

Thanks for your hard work!
- Flickr Interesting Groups 7 October 2008 19:05, by Mortimer
  
  I am working on it.
  - Flickr Interesting Groups 11 February 2009 11:36, by CORDAN
    
    Any chance of this coming back online?
    - Flickr Interesting Groups 13 February 2009 11:46, by Mortimer
      
      I would love to have the time to fix it, but right now, I do not. I don’t think it will come back online soon sadly

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