:”http://flickr.com/photos/douglasfshearer/396233179/

On Saturday I started to notice some strange things happening on Flickr. Photos were appearing that weren’t mine, such as the thumbnail (which isn’t even the thumnail size) and the square image above, supposedly smaller versions of my Carron Valley image, being some sort of glass building, and a random woman respectively.

I thought this was rather strange, and thought it might be some kind of caching error, rather than a DB or system error. It wouldn’t make sense for the photos to have been switched during processing and storage, or the DB corrupted. Cache corruption on the other hand is very possible.

Turns out I was right, yesterday Flickr published an explanation on their blog.

Now if only they would switch to Rails, I would gladly help them out with any problems.

This is the second article in what is becoming a series of Web 2.0 Gone Wrong.