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Flickr demystifies Explore, sort of2025 Oct 17blog.flickr.net
Flickr "Explore" is a daily feature of the photo sharing website, highlighting the 500 best photos posted that day. It's an engagement trick, a way to boost interaction for chosen users. So how do you get your photo into Explore? This question has long been the topic of discussion in the Flickr community.
Well, here comes the Flickr Blog offering to finally demystify Explore! They explain that Explore is algorithmically determined by a score called interestingness. And what is interestingness? Emphasis mine:
“Interestingness” is an internal scoring process that determines which photos are interesting to our community. Some of that scoring is based on data like where the clickthroughs to photos are coming from, who comments on a photo and when, and who marks a photo as a favorite. On Flickr, interestingness changes over time, as more content and stories are added. This means certain aspects of the interestingness scoring remain fluid and somewhat mysterious.
Ironic if you ask me, considering that this is their attempt to demystify.
So how do you get your photo into Explore? For real, no bullshit? Only one consistent way I've ever found in 20 years of using the site: take a break from Flickr for a week, then come back to it. Post something good, it'll hit Explore.
Flickr "Explore" is a daily feature of the photo sharing website, highlighting the 500 best photos posted that day. It's an engagement trick, a way to boost interaction for chosen users. So how do you get your photo into Explore? This question has long been the topic of discussion in the Flickr community.
Well, here comes the Flickr Blog offering to finally demystify Explore! They explain that Explore is algorithmically determined by a score called interestingness. And what is interestingness? Emphasis mine: Ironic if you ask me, considering that this is their attempt to demystify.
So how do you get your photo into Explore? For real, no bullshit? Only one consistent way I've ever found in 20 years of using the site: take a break from Flickr for a week, then come back to it. Post something good, it'll hit Explore.