Darckr is a respectful Flickr Viewer
Darckr aims at enhancing your photographic experience and helping your social life on Flickr. This is done while respecting the rights of copyright holders and the flickr api terms of use. If you ever detected a situation that contradicts the previous statement, please be so kind as to inform me as quickly as possible.
By default, Darckr displays photos from everyone, but never at a size above thumbnails. Darckr will always respect your privacy and copyright choices by not letting other people view unauthorized content.
How to appear in "Small" or "Medium" or "Large"?
Flickr users hence "opt-in" to accept that their photos can be displayed at larger sizes via Darckr. The other way is to attach a creative commons license to your photos. On the other hand, one can also require to be "blacklisted" so that photos never show up, even at the smallest available sizes.
These are only a tiny subset of all the possibilities. For new features and improvements: check the changes page.
Recent Streams by Darckr Users
With Darckr, your Flickr Stream IS a Photo Gallery
Darckr is a companion web app to Flickr. Darckr first is the ultimate streaming flickr viewer that will turn your Flickr Stream to as many sharable photo galleries as you like. Try for instance viewing the explore page on Darckr, going from page to page simply by dragging the mouse down the page and changing presentation options: size, number, number of columns, etc. Darckr lets all his users change all options accordingly to their own taste. Every option is available in a click and Darckr will remember your preferences in cookies if you click "remember".
If you are a Flickr user and have granted access to Darckr, you can view your own photos, or a gallery of your contacts photos, and if you're a friend or family view full contents of other people streams. Try the authors stream for instance ;-). Note that Darckr presents, but in no case copies your pictures. They remain on Flickr and other users see only what they are entitled to. Of course, you see your own private photos.
With Darckr: nothing to download, nothing to install, no gallery software to upload by ftp, no php enabled server
Darckr helps you in your (Flickr) Social Life
Darckr aims at saving time in your Flickr life. You can post comments on your contacts photos or fave them in a snap (you can also do it on your own and add tags). Most of your activity in the session (the comments you posted and faves you made) will be recorded. You can also edit photo parameters (visibility).
You can also share permalinks to your Darckr stream for instance to publish your most interesting photos as a Darckr gallery. Feel free to explore the possibilities offered by the top menu. There's a whole world to discover!
For instance: Darckr offers you the possibility to view only your public photos, or only your non private photos. That way you know what your stream looks like to the entire planet without having to logout from flickr.
Manifesto
Darckr is a program to simply build a black web page that would honour my Flickr contact's photos, and that I could use as my welcome web page in my browser. I like viewing photos on a black background, so this is the default appearance of Darckr (and hence explains its name)...
What most strongly hit me when I first joined Flickr was the incredible beauty of other people's photos. So, yes I publish some of mine, but what I like to see most are the ones from my contacts, or the ones from explore. Beauty of pictures and beauty of feelings combine to deliver a unique and strong message.
Photography lies in between the material and immaterial patrimony of humanity, and the flickr initiative surely offers an opportunity for each of us to survive himself by leaving drops of beauty for the future. What strikes me in the way members use this, is the positive, peaceful, and objective way they view and share their world.
Photography needs light. So the name "Darckr" is "negative" only in the sense of paper photography. It helps revealing the beauty of light and colors captured by your "positives".
How?
Darckr is free of use (in the sense of "free beer"), and I'm happy to offer the fun of it to the flickr community.
Darckr can be used without warranty of any kind. Don't worry however, no operation requires "delete" permissions, and I'm using it for myself ;-).
Darckr is meant to smoothly augment its functionalities over time. There are a bunch of things I'd like to do;-) if I can (since this is not my main occupation at all, and photo is a hobby). I can be contacted via flickr mail, or using laurent.henocque at gmail.com.