{"id":10105,"date":"2006-05-06T13:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T10:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/06\/changes-to-flickr-badge\/"},"modified":"2006-05-06T13:57:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T10:57:19","slug":"changes-to-flickr-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/06\/changes-to-flickr-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Flickr badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After paying close attention to the my Flickr badge<\/a>, I noticed that the selected pictures weren’t as random as I’d like. A quick search on Flickr support forums<\/a> revealed that I am not alone<\/a>. Something is wrong with their random number generator.<\/p>\n

Gladly, there is a workaround. It’s somewhat painful, but gives far better results. I have changed the badge code to select random images from all my public pictures tagged with “badge<\/a>“. There are only a few at the moment, but I’ll be adding more soon.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

After paying close attention to the my Flickr badge, I noticed that the selected pictures weren’t as random as I’d like. A quick search on Flickr support forums revealed that I am not alone. Something is wrong with their random number generator. Gladly, there is a workaround. It’s somewhat painful, but gives far better results. … Continue reading Changes to Flickr badge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10093,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/30\/flickr-badge\/","url_meta":{"origin":10105,"position":0},"title":"Flickr badge","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 30, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Those of you who missed random images from my photo albums since I moved away from Gallery2, here you go - now there is a Flickr badge at the top of the frontpage of this blog. 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