I assumed Flickr would be great to use for the moblog on this site, but apparently not. Yesterday it took nearly an hour and a half for Flickr to register that I sent them an email. Today, about half an hour ago, I sent a picture with a decent sized post in it to Flickr and it still has not appeared on my site. I am, well, furious. I don’t really understand how things can go from ‘within minutes’ to ‘taking hours’ somewhat randomly, but apparently Flickr’s upload-via-email is not an exact science by any means. This is a rant, I am ranting. Going to figure out a better way to do this.

Update: If I set it up so my phone emails only to my Gmail account, and have a filter set up so Gmail automatically forwards them to my Flickr 2blog email address, it seems to work fine. I haven’t figured out how to do this yet without really screwing up some of my settings and ending up with duplicates of every post in my gmail account, but at least this is the first step. Guess I’ll make a dedicated Gmail account for posting to Flickr. Lame, but necessary.

Update 2: I am using one of my secondary Gmail accounts as my dedicated “post to flickr” email address. For some reason my Sidekick LX’s mail server doesn’t play well with Flickr. This should be a good, solid, permanent solution, I suppose.