P: Flickr publish service incorrectly handles multi-word keywords in 2015.2.1

[johnrellis]

The LR Flickr publish service in CC 2015.2.1 / OS X 10.10.5 is causing Flickr to handle improperly multi-word keywords.

For example, if you publish a photo with the keywords "Peter Ellis" and "Lake Powell", Flickr will show four keywords attached to the photo: "Peter Ellis", "Peter", "Ellis", "Lake Powell", "Lake", "Powell". This is incorrect.

However, these methods do not exhibit the incorrect behavior:

- Publishing to Flickr with CC 2015.1.1 and the LR Flickr publish service.
- Publishing to Flickr with CC 2015.2.1 and the Friedl Flickr publish service.
- Exporting to the desktop from CC 2015.2.1 and then uploading to Flickr via the Web browser.

All these methods result in Flickr showing just the keywords "Peter Ellis" and "Lake Powell". Thus, the bug is specific to the Flickr plugin in CC 2015.2.1.

In all cases the export settings were the default plus these: Include All Metadata, Remove Person info unchecked, Remove Location Info unchecked, Write Keywords As Lightroom Hierarchy checked.

At least three others have reported this problem:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1980380 (majbadger)
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1984212 (Bill Ingalls, NASA HG PHOTO)
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1986323 (SyrinxGC)

Screenshot of correct Flickr keywords:


Screenshot of incorrect Flickr keywords:

[majbadger]

This is very disappointing news. I guess I will try some experiments when I get home this evening. If you read some of the earlier posts, there were all manner of different keyword results on Flickr depending on which LR version the photos were published with, republished with, etc, and deleting keywords in LR and republishing had its own share of unfortunate effects. Will try with 2015.3 and see what happens I suppose. Not very happy though.

[majbadger]

Well, it was painful and took a long time, but I was able to manually remove tags from 1,669 photos one at a time in Flickr. Then I republished with 2015.3 and keywords seem to be okay. Still, this was an unacceptable mistake on Adobe's part. Simply ridiculous that it had to come to this.

[KeyStudio]

This keywording bug almost broke my spirit for sharing anything online. I just published a test image with my standard set and it looks exactly as intended. I almost don't want to trust that it could be this simple–set keywords in LR, share to Flickr, see same keywords appear on Flickr without an hour of tedious cleanup. But I can try to trust again.