You know the only thing I find annoying? Flickr has that damn censorship feature and consequently Friendfeed won't display any photos that are marked "unsafe". You still have to go to the contacts page for those. - Eric P

personally I'd like to see more and more Flickr users on FF -- seeing photos here is one of my favorite things to do. This is one of the reason's why I heavily evangelize FF on my blog and at Flickr. The vast majority of my Flickr contacts though still are not on FF and I'd be interested in ways to see more of them come over. I also think FF needs a feature to let you move *all* of your Flickr contacts over, matching up their FF accounts where possible and creating imaginary friends where not. - Thomas Hawk

also friendfeed enables piclens which is currently my favorite way to view pictures. - Alan Le

FF is making me more active, and I really like that. If it weren't for FF, I'd be missing a lot of great photos and conversations. - donato from twhirl

Eric, that is true. Same with RSS. Flickr's censorship policy sucks. If I want to see naked people I should be allowed to see naked people. The fact that Flickr is a silo for any photos deemed by them as "unsafe" is wrong. Flickr should recognize that as adults we are capable of choosing what to see and what not to see. It bums me out that they filter out Merkley's photos here from my FF experience. I wish more people would complain about that fact. - Thomas Hawk

I love seeing which photos my Flickr friends have favorited. - lisa-k

Totally agree on your first comment, Thomas. We need some sort of "bulk Flickr feed import" to get everyone into FriendFeed, even if they don't actually have a FF account. I'm sure some computer guy out there could write a script for this. - Matt

One other thing I thought of: much like PicLens, it'd be really nice to be able to interact with photos (favorite/comment) directly from FF. For example, have a setting in FF to be able to "blow up" the shot and then fav/comment on it. - Matt

exactly. I use FF for the same. Its more fun here. - Thejesh GN

FF could show an RSS with images as photos, which is not happening, that way I could add an imaginary friend called "Flickr Contacts" and add my flickr contacts as a regular RSS - João Almeida

Thomas: If it is any consolation, you convinced me to join FF, and I must say, it's awesome. Shortly after I joined twitter too and haven't touched it much. - Justin Korn

I'm also enjoying viewing other people's favorite photos and sharing my own but I'm with Matt in thinking Flickr support in FF can be improved by letting us selectively view (at least) mid sized thumbnails. I never really liked square cropped thumbnails. They look great but misrepresent the original photograph. Maybe a greasemonkey script is the solution for this. Also piclens has never worked correctly for me in FF. - Rafael Robayna

Matt, one thing that I do is as I seen thumbnails come by in FF that I think I want to interact with I simply cmd-click on those thumnails. This keeps me on the same FF page but then opens the flickr photos in new tabs and I can tab through all of those pages one by one and see larger sizes, fave, comment, etc. - Thomas Hawk

Also if you want to let people know that you found their photo via FF. You can install the GM add referrer info script. This way they see a link to FF whenever you comment on a Flickr photo: http://6v8.gamboni.org/... See this comment to see what I'm talking about. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

Just joined FF after reading your blog, Thomas. Thanks for the info. Although I find adding friends on FF to be tedious and frustrating. It should be a lot easier! - Mike

I'm enjoying your wonderful articles attached to Flickr pictures. It's a surprise when viewing Flickr pictures everytime there are lovely stories attached. Wish FF would flag/mark stories/videos in Flickr with some special icon. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

Good point about ctrl-click, Thomas (I'm on a PC). Also, I didn't think of it before, but you can just use Cooliris to bring up the Flickr page as well. That's easy! Don't know why I didn't think of that before! - Matt

I really like the idea of Friendfeed "discovering" my Flickr contacts who're also on Friendfeed and giving me the chance to subscribe to them. - Fraser Smith

Agreed. FriendFeed's presentation of your friends' photos and faves is far superior to that of Flickr. Come to think of it, FF seems to work better than most of the services it is aggregating :) - Brandon Wood

Love being able to see 25 pictures in FF when pressing the arrow key. I wish that FriendFeed would make 2+ posts when I publish/favorite more than 25 photos...the rest are lost. Also, if people comment or like my photos as FF is publishing them (e.g. only 10 photos have arrived), those comments get lost as the entry is replaced by a newer entry (with 25 photos)...I think the comments/like should be merged into the newer Flickr/Picasa entries. - Mitchell Tsai

See "How to see Top 100 Flickr Likes of personX" and "Viewing FriendFeed-Everyone Flickr feeds" at http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Great, very clear post about this, Thomas. I'm a contact of yours over on flickr. Just thought you should know I'm over here too, largely due to your posts on the subject. - Anne