I love Flickr. I use it fairly often, and I really like the site as a whole. It’s a wonderful way to share photos with friends, family, and the world at large. The creators have done a bang-up job of keeping the site useable with the flood of users it’s had since it opened. If you’re looking for some time to kill, Flickr is a great way to do it. Flickr recently made some upgrades to the site, and I really like what they’ve done.

One thing that’s always bothered me about Flickr though, is keeping track of comments made on photos. You get no notification when someone comments on a photo of yours, and the same when you leave a comment on someone else’s photo. If you’re like me, busy, it’s hard to remember to check in on pictures you’ve commented on to see replies. Well, I’ve found a simple, and not completely perfect way around this. RSS.

In the new navigation of your Flickr page, you will see in the drop down menu “Comments You’ve Made”. This takes you to a page that lists by date comments you’ve made on other people’s photos, as well as any replies. This page has an RSS feed that you can subscribe to. While this isn’t as nice as an email reminder, it’s better than nothing. I’m a heavy RSS user, so it’ll fit into my flow fairly well. People that haven’t caught on to, or aren’t interested in RSS yet, will not gain as much.

Similarly, you can subscribe to an RSS feed for your own recent activity page, which will give you notice when someone comments on your photos. Again, for the RSS users out there.

I’m sure these are old hat to die-hard Flickr users, but I just found them, and so others like myself may benefit from this.