Flickr incident

Photos fail to load or upload

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Flickr experienced a major incident on July 23, 2025 affecting Photo/Video Serving and Uploads and 1 more component, lasting 6h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 23, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 23, 2025, 05:33 PM UTC
Duration
6h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 23, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC

Affected components

Photo/Video ServingUploadsWeb

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 23, 2025, 11:02 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Jul 23, 2025, 03:27 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified for uploads and a fix is in place, but the upload queue is going to take some time to process. Photo and Video serving services have returned to normal.

  3. monitoring Jul 23, 2025, 04:58 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Jul 23, 2025, 05:33 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.