As this Help Forum post highlights once again… Flickr is not reviewing new accounts for their Safety Level. In the past not having your safety level set meant you would be excluded from search results, Explore and have limited visibility in Group pools. However, at about the time Flickr seems to have stopped reviewing and setting the safety level of new accounts it was discovered that new accounts were getting in Explore and were being featured in Tag search results. Unfortunately they still get excluded from all other search results and still have limited visibility in group pools.
Instead of acknowledging or addressing the issue, Flickr has let this drag on for months despite numerous queries in the HF. Why would they not address this? The only reasonable explanation is staff levels have been trimmed so much that those few remaining are just a skeleton crew trying to keep things together until the sale to Verizon is complete. This lack of staff resources would explain why many other major issues are also not being addressed.
The question then becomes is Flickr clinically dead and only on life support until someone decides to pull the plug? What’s left for users to do? Pray perhaps…. miracles do happen.
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