Photo Gallery not working with Flickr

Hi Kevin Purcell,

I apologize for the difficulties that this issue has brought you. The issue is still under investigation by our Support Specialist and there is no time frame when this will be fixed.

@SirkkaStephens,

Thank you for getting back to us and providing additional information. We will forward this to our Support Specialist so that they can further investigate on it. We will informed you on this thread once we received response from them.

Your patience is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

A MONTH WITH NO MOVEMENT. I REALLY DON'T SEE HOW WE SHOULD NOT THINK  WE'VE BEEN PUT ON THE BACK BURNER, IN HOPES THIS ISSUE WILL JUST DISAPPEAR. WE'RE BEYOND APOLOGIES. TIME TO TELL US THE TRUTH.

We'd better keep the heat in this issue above ambient, people, since it's a markedly relevant factor in WLPG's functionality.

Vivien, Glenda, Caesar, others ..have promised that the 'development team' is aware of the matter and is 'working on a solution', but we'd have to expect that it's not likely to be on the top of their run-sheet while a new MD announces his plans and the organisation assuages it's '8' embarrassment getting Windows 9 to market.

We do need to think of incentives that can be communicated to the development leads so that their programmers can start coding again. Remember, WLPG is provided essentially free, gratis, and for nothing. If there's even the slightest business case for Msft to refresh the service, then we need to remind them of it.

1. Note that the link to Flickr is a convenience, outside the Microsoft sphere, and so all users within WLPG and Outlook.com are lost to Yahoo/Flickr after an upload. Msft offers OneDrive for photos, so that may be seen as 'good enough'. Why would they bother to fix an alien connection?
2. Personally, my wish to use Flickr is because I'm told that Flickr carries over the metadata from WLPG objects - after captioning all my many photos in WLPG, I'd like to see them displayed prominently and simply when people I'm sharing photos with view them. A shared photo is nothing much without a description.
3. I'd expect that OneDrive photo collections would do the job, but, incredibly, OneDrive doesn't appear to read WLPG captions; filenames, some other data, off in a side panel, but NOT captions. Yes, they're Titles and Subjects within the NTFS JPG files, but co-ordination between systems is severely lacking, IMHO. Maybe OneDrive would do, once it's overhauled.

And, as a few posters here have said, it's time for WLPG to have a refresh; faulty resizing is one item that comes to my mind ...NOT identifying faces when I untick the option is another. Case-sensitivity in tag prompts..

Business case for a refresh? Respectability. Trustworthiness.

Hi everyone,

I apologize for the delay in responding to this thread. We know how convenient to upload photos to Flickr through Windows Photo Gallery, but the recent changes lost its functionality to do so. This concern has been forwarded to the product group and we received a word that there will be no update for this. Therefore, we advise that you upload files directly to Flickr instead. 

We appreciate your feedback regarding this concern and thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Michelle

Hi everyone,

I apologize for the delay in responding to this thread. We know how convenient to upload photos to Flickr through Windows Photo Gallery, but the recent changes lost its functionality to do so. This concern has been forwarded to the product group and we received a word that there will be no update for this. Therefore, we advise that you upload files directly to Flickr instead. 

We appreciate your feedback regarding this concern and thank you for your understanding.

Regards,

Michelle

WE WAITED 3 MONTHS TO HEAR THIS, BASICALLY SAYING "OH, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THAT". DID ANYONE TRY, AT ALL, TO COME UP WITH A FIX? I THINK NOT. JUST DRAGGED IT OUT FOR A QUARTER OF A YEAR UNTIL IT "COOLED-DOWN". DON'T THANK US FOR UNDERSTANDING; THE LAST 3 MONTHS HAS SHOWN WE DON'T MATTER.