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2006

Project: Flickr Sprinklr

posted by Eric Appel      15 Comments

Flickr Sprinklr is an asp.net app I wrote to allow Flickr users to quickly add their photos to multiple groups. Flickr users often submit photos to 20 or more different groups, and the interface in Flickr currently requires you to submit a photo to each group one at a time. Sprinklr loads all of a user's groups into a table and then allows them to check off checkboxes for each group they would like to submit the photo to. If you save the Sprinklr Boomarklet to your browser's Links bar (Internet Explorer) or Bookmark Toolbar (Firefox) and then browse to any of your photos on Flickr, when you click the bookmarklet it will take you to the photo on Sprinklr so you can add it to groups.  If you hover over any of the group descriptions, Sprinklr will display a tooltip showing the group’s description so you can quickly see the rules for posting in each group.  To use Groupr you must of course have a Flickr account, and belonging to some groups helps as well.

Sprinklr has been linked to by the Great Flickr Tools Collection

Monday, September 18, 2006 7:30:15 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
For the past two days, I have not been able to get sprinklr to work, which is too bad because it is a great tool. It had been working slowly before that. It crashes with a code that says that the server "timed out"
paul aloe
Monday, September 18, 2006 11:54:22 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hi Paul. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I have been having some problems with my web host being able to consistently access the Flickr web service, but I am working through those issues with them. I have also been releasing updates in the past few days to add the comment functionality and fix other bugs. That may have corrupted the flickr web service cache, so I will flush that clean tonight. Bear with me, I am actively working on getting these things fixed!
Eric Appel
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:16:22 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I really love this application.
But it has several months that when I try to use it brings back this message:
Server Error in '/sprinklr' Application.

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

I'm running Safari, is there's something I can do?
Best Regards Gerry
Gerardo Garibay
Friday, March 02, 2007 12:58:12 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I can't seem to get it to work either.
paul aloe
Saturday, April 07, 2007 10:34:04 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hi eric,

sprinkr is still not working. With the new photo limits on flickr, I would really like to use it again. Is there any way we can get it working again. Its a great app and very much needed. Please bring it back.
paulaloe
Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:06:20 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hey Paul. I will definitely look into getting it back up and running sometime this week. Just out of curiosity, how many different groups do you belong to and how was performance for you before the site went down?
Eric Appel
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:48:37 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I have the same problem as Geraldo above. Do you think it's because I'm trying to access it through a network? Maybe one of the many firewalls is preventing it?

When it works it's a GREAT tool though, thanks Eric.
Kas
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:44:49 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hi there
sprinkler is not working! is the app i was looking for but sadly it just output an error page.
Thank you
eloy
Sunday, June 08, 2008 6:12:40 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hi,

Sprinkler still not working. When do you think it will be back up?

Thanks,

Phil
Phil
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:45:37 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Hello! Good app, is it gona work any more? :)
alch
Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:20:04 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Well... it's not working. I'll try again next month ;)
Ganso
Monday, August 24, 2009 5:51:40 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Eric,

I haven't been able to use Sprinklr for quite some time. Could it have something to do with the number of Groups I have linked to my Flickr account? Or possibly some of the group names including unicode characters?

I appreciate you looking into this!

Phil
Phil
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:50:43 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Eric,

Have you had a chance to look into this? I really like your application and IMO it's the best way to manage groups.

Thank you!
Phil
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:33:33 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
WE WANT OUR GODDAMN NAME SPRINKLR IS OURS!!!!! IN 2009 FOR CHRISSTSAKES

THE CHEESE
THE CHEESE
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:35:17 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
IT WONT TWEET WHAT THE F DO I DO?


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