What makes it all the more painful is I'd actually done a full scrape of all the metadata that Flickr makes available through its API, but I can't seem to find the data from the scrape that I did that included the all important view counts. As an FYI, we can clean up individual posts or photos, but cant really do anything about the larger problems other than report them, ourselves - and in fact have been asked in the past to report spammers rather than delete their posts, so the abuse team has something to work with. I find it hard to believe that they of all people would just nuke that information? From the sounds of it the account was voluntarily deleted by IA. I really really hope that some backup of the metadata was done before the delete button was pushed. The fact that the illustrations were taken out of context made them even more fascinating and mysterious.Īll the time people had spent delving the depths of the archive of 5+ million images and curating the most interesting images, just gone? You could search for words and you would get all sorts of strange illustrations/block prints/photos that may or may not have something to do with the term. It was probably one of my favourite things on the internet, no hyperbole. If you don't already know, there was a project to extract all the illustrations from book scans in the Internet Archive and they were uploaded to and could be explored on Flickr.
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