Fluidr presents a new way of exploring Flickr photos and videos.
It was designed to allow you, the viewer, to discover and interact with Flickr photos and videos with as little distraction as possible. This is achieved by:
Fluidr is a hobby project of Sidath Senanayake (haelio on Flickr) and was initially developed as a way to share photos with friends and family without them having to wait for page loads each time they moved from one large-size image to the next. They soon found that they would get a lot further into a photostream before moving onto something else when they used early versions of Fluidr.
In light of this it was decided to offer Fluidr to a wider audience as a way to give something back to the wonderful Flickr community. Fluidr will always remain free to use and ad-free. I hope you enjoy using it as much as I do! If you like Fluidr, please tell your friends about it.
Fluidr relies on 3rd party open source software and has been inspired by other websites. Please see the credits page for more information and attributions.
The idea behind Fluidr was borne the first time I used Bing's image search. I was taken aback with the feature that allowed you to keep on scrolling through the search results without needing to click on a 'next' link. Being a heavy Flickr user, I thought of putting the two together, and learn some web programming and design while I was at it.
Fluidr would like to thank the following:
Fluidr received useful feedback from Paulie W, Pseudorandom, Chinsen and Serious Dr. Please provide feedback, it really helps and you might get credited too!
Fluidr is currently in alpha and is a closed project. I intend to open source the code at some point once it is cleaned up. In the meantime, you can track it's progress and provide change requests and issues at Fluidr's project page.
Fluidr was designed in the hope that it would be as easy to use as possible. If you are having issues perhaps the following will help answer your question. If not, please try providing feedback and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Fluidr uses the official Flickr API and so can display whatever results it returns. Many other Flickr viewers and tools exist and will also be able to access your photos through the same means.
If you would not like Fluidr display your pictures in general searches, you will have to make a few changes to your Flickr settings. Please follow the following steps:
Note that this doesn't work if someone specifically searches for you in the user box above; it only prevents your photos appearing in general searches.
Many of the keyboard shortcuts only work when you are in slideshow mode. To enter slideshow mode, simply hit spacebar, j or k. Keyboard shortcuts should then work fine.
The easiest way is to follow Fluidr on Twitter.
Firstly, apologies for this! This can be solved by setting the Safe Search settings in your Flickr account. Head on over to this page and select the option that suits you best. Please note that unless you have signed in, you can only view 'safe' content.
Currently Fluidr is a closed project, but the plan is to open source everything at some point in the not-to-distant-future. If you would like to contribute to Fluidr in a technical or design capacity, please submit a question via the feedback page.
Thank you! Fluidr was designed as a way for me to share my photos with my family and friends and so is entirely a personal project and so if you enjoy using it that's enough :) If you really like Fluidr, consider telling your friends to give it a spin. If you feel like sending me money—I'm flattered—but no thanks! Please add whatever contribution you had in mind to your next donation to charity instead.
Fluidr would like to be as useful as possible to all its viewers so please feel free to suggest features, request changes and report problems.
PseudoRandom
One way to make viewing on Fluidr quicker is to use keyboard shortcuts. Try it right now by hitting the spacebar key!
When you enter slideshow mode, other keyboard shortcuts are made available:
Now you can browse through hundreds of photos and videos, commenting and faving as you go, without your hand needing to switch between the keyboard and mouse. All the more time to spend on the content itself!
If you want to leave slideshow mode, hit the esc key, or scroll.
A quick way to move from a page on Flickr to its equivalent page on Fluidr is to use the following bookmarklet.
First, drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar:
Now when you're on a page on Flickr, simply click on the bookmarklet in your bookmarks toolbar to view the same photos and videos on Fluidr!
If you want to embed a link in HTML code to a view on Fluidr, simply use the following bookmarklet
First, drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar:
Now when you're on a page on Flickr, simply click on the bookmarklet in your bookmarks toolbar and a box will pop up with the HTML code that you can copy and paste. This is a good way of adding a view on black link to your photo's caption.
Taken while punting on the River Cam
St Andrews Bay
One of the statues at the gates of Prague Castle
The St Andrews coastline at sunset
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