Seems we can’t catch a break here at FlickrLicio.us. This past week, as a personal expense I purchased a new $100/month server based on Rackspace servers to increase the speed and connectivity of the site.

If you are subscribed via the RSS feed, the images are still live for you, but if you come to the site directly, you will see no pictures currently. A while back Flickr blocked hotlinking from their site to this one and a number of others who do the same type of thing. Well they’ve done it again.

Previously they asked that 15 or under pics be displayed per page….we complied.

They asked that no ads be displayed, but per Stewart (President of Flickr) I was allowed 1 block of Google type ads….we complied.

I even rewrote the page to use less bandwidth, and yet the site is blocked again. The site has never made a single red cent of profit in any way. Now with an expense of over $100 per month…it’s difficult to move on when we are blocked while following the rules.

I’ve emailed Stewart Butterfield and Heather Champ (Community Manager at Flickr) regarding this situation, I recommend that you do so as well.

If the site remains blocked, there is always the RSS feed, and you can subscribe via Email as well if you aren’t to keen on the whole RSS thing. I will keep you up to date on the progress. Thanks for being such loyal subscribers. We hope that the experience can only become more enjoyable as we move into the future.