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					<description><![CDATA[Consider these two examples involving Flickr, that occurred within just one day of each other. Nice gal Amanda I submitted the following feedback, not really expecting much of it. In fact, I fully expected some useless, boilerplate response that completely ignored the point and directed me to the upload requirements page (despite it being the&#8230; <a class="read-more-link" href="https://wadetregaskis.com/bipolar-customer-support/" data-wpel-link="internal">Read more</a>]]></description>
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<p>Consider these two examples involving Flickr, that occurred within just one day of each other.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Nice gal Amanda</h2>



<p>I submitted the following feedback, not really expecting much of it.  In fact, I fully expected some useless, boilerplate response that completely ignored the point and directed me to the upload requirements page (despite it being the very first thing I myself pointed to) or was nothing but mail-merge platitudes.</p>



<p>And in retrospect I could have phrased this more respectfully, too.  So I wasn&#8217;t even going in as a great customer.</p>



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<p>Per&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404079649300-Flickr-upload-requirements" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404079649300-Flickr-upload-requirements</a>, Flickr still doesn&#8217;t support modern, more efficient formats like HEIF, WebP, and AVIF (for images).</p>



<p>It&#8217;s also unclear what video codecs are actually supported, since they&#8217;re not specified &#8211; merely container formats. &nbsp;e.g. does AV1 work? &nbsp;Or even just HEVC?</p>



<p>Being relegated to JPEG makes my files way larger and therefore uploads take a lot longer, and also precludes use of high-quality images featuring e.g. greater than 8-bit depths and HDR support.</p>



<p>(I realise TIFF is nominally supported and does at least offer 16-bit support, but the article notes that it&#8217;s degraded to JPEG anyway on the server, plus even compressed TIFFs are still huge and particularly slow to upload)</p>



<p>On your end, you&#8217;d save a lot of storage space if you supported and prioritised modern, more efficient formats &#8211; not to mention bandwidth costs (every browser of note supports WebP &amp; AVIF at the very least, so you could even transcode from older formats).</p>
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<p>What I got surprised me greatly, in the best way:</p>



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<p>Hi Wade,<br><br>Thank you for reaching out to us! My name is Amanda and I&#8217;m happy to help you.<br><br>I understand you would like to see more photo formats accepted on Flickr (namely: HEIF/HEIC, WebP, AVIF). I&#8217;ve passed a feature suggestion along to our product development team for review regarding this. Hopefully, being able to offer support for these newer file formats is something we can address in a future site update.<br><br>While I do not have a timeframe for if/when this would be put into effect, they are aware that this is something that members of Flickr would like to see as an option.<br><br>You also mentioned some specific video codecs. As these aren&#8217;t listed in that Help Center article you linked, I&#8217;m double checking with our team to see if these are supported or not. As soon as I hear back from them, I&#8217;ll follow up and let you know here.<br><br>In the meantime, please let me know if you have any other questions or suggestions. I&#8217;ll keep an eye out for your response!</p>



<p>Warmly,</p>



<p>Amanda<br>Flickr Support</p>
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<p>Holy shit.  A humane response from a real human.  Better yet, a couple of hours later that was followed by (unprompted by me):</p>



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<p>Hi Wade,<br><br>Thank you for your patience! I checked with our team and it appears AV1 and HEVC are not currently supported. I have added these along to the other formats you had already asked about in our feedback to the Product Development team.&nbsp;<br><br>If there is anything else I can help with, please do feel free to reach out!</p>



<p>Warmly,</p>



<p>Amanda<br>Flickr Support</p>
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<p>Even though these responses made no conclusive promises (regarding support for these file formats), I was thrilled.  Beyond the pleasant tone and clear demonstration that Amanda actually read and comprehended my feedback, just knowing that my feedback <em>actually</em> got to the intended recipients (the dev team) is heartening; it made me feel <em>good</em> about choosing to use Flickr for all these years.</p>



<p>But then…</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bad guy Marc</h2>



<p>Coincidentally, while Amanda was getting back to me I ran into a bug in Flickr&#8217;s file upload API.  It was apparent from the logs that Flickr was the cause of the issue, but nonetheless I took the time to first confirm that with the <a href="https://www.newpproducts.com/lightroom-plug-ins/photo-upload/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener">Photo Upload</a> plug-in&#8217;s author.  Then, I submitted the bug report to Flickr:</p>



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<p>When trying to upload some (but not all) files, the upload ostensibly fails &#8211; it hangs for a while after the transfer is complete before finally concluding with a 504 error from CloudFront. &nbsp;e.g.:</p>



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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:42:43 GMT
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<p>This happens every time.</p>



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<p>Worse, the image&nbsp;<em>is</em>&nbsp;actually uploaded, and appears in the photostream etc. &nbsp;So uploaders that retry on failure (e.g.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newpproducts.com/?page_id=3306" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener external" data-wpel-link="external">Photo Upload</a>&nbsp;for Lightroom) produce endless duplicate uploads.</p>



<p>According to the author of Photo Upload, Rob, this is a commonly reported problem with Flickr specifically (Photo Upload supports seventeen other destinations). &nbsp;He said it seems to come and go randomly, presumably due to miscellaneous changes on the server side (whether CloudFront or Flickr).</p>



<p>This is preventing me from uploading&nbsp;<em>any</em>&nbsp;photos to Flickr, since it&#8217;s stuck on the one photo and the rest of my enqueued uploads are behind that.</p>
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<p>And the response was:</p>



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<p>Hi Wade,<br><br>Thanks for reaching out to Flickr Support.<br><br>Unfortunately the product you are experiencing issues with was developed by a third-party &amp; therefore we&#8217;re unable to offer specialized support in this area.&nbsp;<br><br>We realize the frustration this causes , but we&#8217;re are limited to providing support for the Flickr website and official mobile applications.<br><br>In this case, we recommend reaching out with this third-party developer or help team for better assistance.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Appreciatively,</p>



<p>Marc J.</p>
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<p>What the fuck happened?  You were doing so well, Flickr.  Here I am going out of my way to diagnose and report &#8211; with all pertinent details available to me &#8211; a bug in your API servers, and I get a robotic, bullshit response that&#8217;s purely about refusing to accept responsibility.  This is the kind of response which makes me think your support staff are paid based solely on how fast they close tickets.</p>



<p>And what the hell is Marc &#8216;appreciating&#8217; here?  Amanda&#8217;s &#8220;Warmly&#8221; valediction actually feels genuine, in context (and is human even out of context).  &#8220;Appreciatively&#8221; feels like corporate innuendo.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">We humans are weird</h2>



<p>Admittedly I started writing this out of catharsis, but it really got me thinking.</p>



<p>Why should I care that Flickr delivered miserable customer support in this second case?  Shouldn&#8217;t I just quietly move on, like I would if it were from most other companies?  Shouldn&#8217;t I be thrilled it&#8217;s at least not a bug in Lightroom itself, since Adobe&#8217;s customer support is a hundred times worse in every case; among the most aggressively evasive and pre-emptively hostile I&#8217;ve ever encountered?</p>



<p>I think we&#8217;re <em>all</em> pretty conditioned to expect terrible experiences with so-called customer support from large software companies, like Adobe, or Google.  We expect it and tolerate it, against all justice and our own interests.</p>



<p>Instead, it&#8217;s often <em>inconsistency</em> in a single company&#8217;s behaviour that&#8217;s the most infuriating and raises our ire.  This makes no logical nor rational sense &#8211; and is very bad from a game theory perspective, as it encourages companies to be <em>consistently</em> dumb and evil.</p>



<p>It seems akin to how most folks pay little attention to e.g. Facebook doing yet another horrible thing &#8211; the headlines might as well all be &#8220;Facebook acts like Facebook yet again&#8221; &#8211; but if e.g. Apple does something a bit clueless, the world gets up in arms.</p>



<p>I guess it boils down to hope, ironically.  If we see a company &#8211; or a person &#8211; demonstrate that they <em>can</em> do better, then we raise the bar for them.  And are then ripe to be disappointed if they merely behave like most of their peers, subsequently.</p>



<p>Which is stupid, really.</p>
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