Login options

	Description	Special notes
Flickr login	Full functionality.	Requires write access to your account.
Read-only Flickr login	Can't fav or comment a photo from Deep Dive. Follow the link to the photo page, fav and comment from there.	Requires read access to your account.
Without Flickr login	Can't fav or comment a photo from Deep Dive. Follow the link to the photo page, fav and comment from there.	Go to your photostream, then copy and paste the full photostream URL, not just the user id number or user name.
	Can't use Reciprocity.
	Can only see public photos, public favorites, public contacts.
	Can't see friends and family members.
	Can't see group members.

Easy

		Description
Functionality		Simple photo recommendations.
Input parameters	People who's photos I faved must have other good stuff for me.	Randomly selects people whos photos you faved, then randomly selects interesting photos from them.
	It's been a while since I looked at the photos I faved.	Randomly selects photos you faved.
	I trust that my contacts know what to fav.	Randomly selects people from your contacts, then randomly selects photos they faved.
	I want to browse Flickr's top interesting collection.	Randomly selects Flickr top 500 interesting photos of all times.
	Photo suggestions by the creator of Deep Dive.
	Favs of my friends and family.	Randomly selects people from your friends of family, then randomply selects photos they faved.
Output		See Photo page.

Chain

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Artificial intelligence photo recommendations. It's goal is to adapt to your personal taste, keep old but good photos alive, also to find hidden gems that you may not have discovered otherwise.	Many great photos have never been posted to groups. Even if they were, they are probably not on the first page.
How it works		Chain learns from your thumbs up feedback. Use of thumbs up is optional but recommended. Even without your feedback the AI will attempt to display quality content. I suggest that you give a thumbs up at least when you fav a photo. Also suggest that you don't overdo thumbs up because then the AI search radius expands exponentially.	If you belive that Chain is going into too many dead end streets, you can reset the search path under Setup. Resetting Chain will erase all previous thumbs up feedbacks, you can start teaching it from scratch again. The recommended way to start the Chain is to find your Flickr Twins first then do a reset chain after that. When you see your own favs in the Chain results, those are not selected from your list of favs. The photos were recommended by the algorithm, they just happen to be your favs already.
		It searches for photos in smaller batches. The size of the batch will increase as you use it more.
Input parameters	Show more info for all photos	Automatically fetches extra information about the photos and displays the 'more info...' panel. See detailed description under Photo page.	In Chain the AI needs feedback on the photos found. Consequently, the common photo display filters can't be used, photos can't be hidden. However, this option gives you all the information that the regular filters use to hide photos. Use of this option has a small performance impact.
Output		See Photo page.

Catch up

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Staying up to date with all contacts, never miss a good photo.
How it works		Catch up picks the least recently visited contact, and displays all newly posted photos since your last visit. It remembers the date your contact was last visited. If the contact has never been visited with Catch up, then photos posted less than the specified number of days ago will be displayed.	No more than 150 photos will be displayed. It silently skips a contact who has no photos to display this time or who was visited less than 4 days ago.
Input parameters	First time lookback	If the contact has never been visited with Catch up, photos younger than this number of days will be displayed.
	Classification	See Common filters.
	Contacts - Friends and family only	Only visit friends and family.	Catch up will still remember the last date of visit for all your contacts, as soon as you disable this option it will resume normal operation.
	Photo display filters	See Common filters.
Output		See Photo page.

Reciprocity a.k.a. 1/x

	Description	Special notes
Functionality	An easy way to see who are the key followers of your photostream, what have they done for you, what have you done for them.	While you may use Catch up to contribute to your contacts, Reciprocity adds on top of this. It will bring your attention to people with no recent uploads, also to people not on your contact list.
How it works	Reciprocity makes calculations by looking at past activity and suggests you people to reciprocate a photostream visit for. Reciprocity will prioritize the 'workload' for you, and will remember the date for each person for whom 'you did your part'. In case you want to revisit a person again before clicking the 'I did my part' button, simply continue with the next person in line.	A person skipped will not be recommended again for 4 days.
Output	See Reciprocity page.

Finder

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Photo recommendations based on advanced search parameters.
How it works		Form a sentence that describe your search criteria. One example may sound like this: I want to see all my favorites from a person who's photos I faved, his name is something like John23 and I am particularly interested in the photos I have not commented yet. Now, break down this sentence and let's match it to the various groups of the filter. You want to see your favorites, so Step 1) will be 'My favorites from'. You can set Step 2) to 'All of them' but in this case it is not needed. Step 3) becomes 'authors of my favorites'. Step 4) will be 'who's name partly matches', with the value 'John23'. Step 5) has all 3 checked in because I want to see even those 'Not successful'. Finally Step 6) has 'Not commented by me'. With this method you can search for a wide variety of photos. Alternatively, find and display a single photo based on it's photo id number.
Input parameters	Favorites of...	Find photos that are favorites of the people identified.
	Recent...	Find photos uploaded in the last X number of days.	No more than 150 photos will be displayed.
	Interesting...	Find photos that are in the top X number of interesting of the people identified.
	My favorites from...	Find photos that are my favorites from the selected person.
	How many photos - All of them	All matching photos will be displayed.
	How many photos - Randomly selected X number	From all matching photos X will be selected randomly.
	... my contacts	Find photos that belong to or faved by my contacts, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.
	... friends and family	Find photos that belong to or faved by my friend or my family, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.
	... authors of my favorites	Find photos that belong to or faved by authors of my favorites, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.
	... members of my group	Find photos that belong to or faved by members of my group, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.	Only if you have a group entered under Setup.
	... my contacts	Find photos that belong to or faved by my contacts, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.
	... my Flickr Twins	Find photos that belong to or faved by my Flickr Twins, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.	Only if you ran the Twins finder previously.
	... my Flickr Fans	Find photos that belong to or faved by my Flickr Fans, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.	Only if you ran the Fans finder previously.
	... myself	Find photos that belong to or faved by me, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection.
	... an arbitraty person	Find photos that belong to or faved by any other person, the meaning depends on Step 1) selection. Go to the person's photostream, and copy and paste the full URL here.	Always copy the full URL, not just the user name or user id number.
	How many people - Randomly selected	If Step 3) allows multiple people, then select random X number of them.
	How many people - Who's name partly matches	If Step 3) allows multiple people, then select the ones who's name partly matches the given text. The matching is not case sensitive. For example john23 will match the user called Little John239.
	Photo classification	See Common filters.
	Photo display filters	See Common filters.
	Directly jump to	Each photo on Flickr has a unique id number. You can see this number in the URL when you are on the photo page. Copy and paste that number here.	Do not copy the full URL, just the photo id number.
Output		See Photo page.

Group

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Photo search from your managed group.	Only useful for a group administrator. Use Setup to enter your group details.
Input parameters	Recent	Find photos added to your group in the last X number of days.	No more than 150 photos will be displayed.
	Interesting	Find most interesting X number of photos added to your group.
	Not from a group member	Hide photos that belong to any of the group members or moderators.	Not functional if the group has a high number of members.
	Not from a group admin	Hide photos that belong to any of the group administrators.	Moderators not included, just administrators.
	Awarded more than or less than X times in the group	Show only those photos awarded more or less than X times.	Naturally, you can't select both at the same time.
	Other photo display fllters	See Common filters.
	Award code / Invite code	The simple way to enter the code is to copy and paste the HTML code, just the same as when you make a comment with the code. However, note that in this case the program will look for a very precise match. Every single character counts. Since people tend to make mistakes, or your codes may have changed over time, you can use a smaller but significant portion of the code, for example just the gif image file name. More advanced users can enter a regular expression. If you enter a regexp, then the first line must be REGEXP, then you enter your expression starting on the second line. The m - multiline and i - ingorecase regexp options will automatically be added, you only need to enter the core of your expression.	If you need to use regular expressions, but not familar with them, please study regular expressions first. http://rubular.com/ could be a good starting point to both learn and test your regexp.
		In order to save the code changes, please click the Photos button.	In case your code - as advertised on Flickr - has a new line within an HTML tag, read the following. Let me give you an example. Some group codes are advertised like this "... blah ...<a_href ... blah ...". Imagine that _ which is inside the anchor tag is a new line character, not a space, so the word href appears in a new line. Replace those new lines with a space here when entering them in Setup. The reason is that Flickr will also replace those with a space character in users' comments.
Output		See Photo page.

Twins and Fans

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Finds your Flickr Twins and/or your Flickr Fans. Flickr Twins is my original invention, it means the small group of people who's fav 'fingerprint' is most similar to yours. Flickr Fans are the small number of people who appreciate your work the most.	You can refresh the list once every 2 weeks, in the meantime you will see the previous search results.
Input parameters	Twins	Find my Flickr Twins.
	Fans	Find my Flickr Fans.
Output		See Photo page.	Twins and Fans are people. But for convenience the output displays a single photo from each person. Next to the author name you will see their user type whether they are fans, twins or maybe both.

Setup

		Description	Special notes
Functionality		Change your managed group - for admins. View Chain statistics and on demand reset Chain search path. See who's next on the Catch up.
Input parameters	Group	From the drop down menu select your active group, to be used under Group tab. Save the change with the Go button.
Output	Chain Approval rate	Chain approval is the indicator of how good You think the photos in Chain currently are - supposing that you are using the thumbs up feedback. The higher, the better.	Note that as the AI is experimenting with a new path, even at higher Chain approval rate you may occasionally see a batch that you like less than average.
	Next person in Catch up	The person who's photostream will be visited by Catch up the next time.	Next person in Catch up depends on whether you limit next search to friends or family only and whether next person has any new uploads.
		Confirmation message when action was completed.

Common filters

	Description	Special notes
Classification - Successful	Display photos that Deep Dive evaluates as Successful.	Small performance impact if not all 3 selected. The 3 classification filters are in a logical OR relationship with each other.
Classification - Undervalued	Display photos that Deep Dive evaluates as Undervalued.	Small performance impact if not all 3 selected. The 3 classification filters are in a logical OR relationship with each other.
Classification - Not successful	Display photos that Deep Dive evaluates as Not successful.	Small performance impact if not all 3 selected. The 3 classification filters are in a logical OR relationship with each other.
Not commented by me	Hide any photos found that have been commented by me.	Small performance impact. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.
Not my fav	Hide any photos found that are my favorites.	If you have extreme number of favs, some older favs may still slip through the filter. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.
Not invited to my group	Hide any photos found that have been invited to my group, i.e. they have a comment matching the group invite code.	Small performance impact. No effect if you have no group defined under Setup. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.
Not added to my group	Hide any photos found that have been added to my group.	Small performance impact. No effect if you have no group defined under Setup. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.
Not in my galleries	Hide any photos found that have been added to any of your galleries.	Small performance impact. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.
Not from my contacts	Hide any photos found whos author is my contact.	Not functional if you have extreme number of contacts. All the rest of the filters are in a logical AND relationship with each other.

Photo page

		Description	Special notes
Page elements	Photo title		Shows 'Untitled' if the photo has no title.
	Photo author		Links to the photo page of the person.
	Connections to person	Displays whether the author is your contact, your Flickr twin or fan	Contact status is not displayed if you have an extreme number of contacts. Twin and fan status is only displayed after you ran the twin / fan finder.
	Photo		Links to the photo page of this photo.
	Photo description		HTML links deleted. Only displayed in Catch up.
	Thumbs up icon	If you like this photo, click once on the icon. After a few seconds a confirmation message will replace the icon. Not related to the Flickr favorites, this icon is purely used to provide feedback to the AI, to teach the AI about your personal taste.	Displayed only for Chain.
	Fav star	If you want to fave or unfave the photo, click once on the icon.	You can only fave a photo if you entered with Flickr login. If you have extreme number of favs, the star may not indicate whether the photo is already your fav.
	more info...	Displays additional information about the photo: classification level, number of favs, does the author call you a contact, was the photo posted recently, how long ago the photo was last commented, has the photo been added to your galleries, has the photo been invited to your group - but not yet added - and how long ago, has the photo been added to your group, all your comments on the photo - less the graphic images.	On demand functionality because of it's performance impact.
	top 52 of author...	Under the photo, displays up to 52 most interesting photos from the same author.	Hover the mouse over the small image to get an instant medium view. Small image links to it's photo page.
	recent 12 of author...	Under the photo, displays up to 12 most recent uploads from the same author.	Hover the mouse over the small image to get an instant medium view. Small image links to it's photo page.
	my favs from author...	Under the photo, displays all your favs from the same author.	Hover the mouse over the small image to get an instant medium view. Small image links to it's photo page. If you have extreme number of favs, some you faved long time ago may not be displayed.
	comment box	Add a comment to this photo.	Only visible if you entered with Flickr login. If you get a Flickr error, it most likely means you are not authorized to add a comment. Also, Flickr limits how fast you can comment on photos, sometimes you may need to wait a little bit.

Reciprocity page

		Description	Special notes
Page elements	Person recommended		Links to the photo page of the person.
	Connections to person	Displays whether the author is your friend, family or Flickr fan, or he/she calls you a contact	Fan status is only displayed after you ran the fan finder.
	Most interesting photo of recommended person		Links to the photo page of this photo.
	'I did my part' button	If you think you did enough for the other person to reciprocate his visits, comments, favs from you then click this button. This sets a milestone, further activities will be evaluated compared to this milestone.
	Recommended photos	Up to 24 photos from the person.	You have not commented neither faved any of these photos. Photos link to their photo page. Hover the mouse over the photo to get an instant medium view. Some of your followers have no uploads, in that case this area is empty.
	Left column photos	Activities the recommended person did on your photos, such as comments or favs.	Photos link to their photo page. Hover the mouse over the photo to get an instant medium view.
	Right column photos	Your activities on the photos of the recommended person, such as comments or favs.	Photos link to their photo page. Hover the mouse over the photo to get an instant medium view.

General

	Description	Special notes
Navigation	In addition to the mouse control, You may use a few keyboard keys to help your navigation. Tab and Page down keys = jump to next photo Page up key = jump to previous photo Home key (Apple has no Home key) = jump to the top of the page. Identical to clicking on the up arrow at the bottom of the photo panel. Enter or Space key (may be web browser specific) = after Home key, re-run the query with the same parameters. Identical to clicking on the Photos button.
Performance	Often times the Flickr backend servers do not respond to queries.	If Flickr has technical issues, Deep Dive does not immediately give up a request, it attempts to resend the request again and again for approximately 10 minutes. This behavior may appear as slowness of Deep Dive, however there is little we can do while waiting for the Flickr servers.
	If the photo classification is on (= not all three checkboxes are selected) then the program takes extra time to evaluate each photo and filter them for you. You loose some time with the evaluation, but gain time by only looking at photos that are more likely to be in your interest.	In Group and Easy the photo classification is not currently used, on the other hand in Chain there is no way to turn photo classification off.
	If you enable the Not invited, Not commented or Awarded more/less filters, then it will take a small amount of extra time for each photo. Similarly, the Get more information checkbox under Chain has a negative impact on performance.
Time shift	The photo classification algorithm shifts the timeline back by 3 days. In Catch up you will see posts from the last 3 days in the next round. Similarly, searching for recent photos in Finder has the 3 days shift too.	Only applicable when not all 3 classification levels (Successful, Undervalued, Not Successful) are selected.
Caching	The application is designed with appropriate data caching, to improve performance and lessen the load on the Flickr servers. If your data is not up to the minute, it will be refreshed in a few hours.
Classification	My mathematical formula that analyzes various photo parameters and puts the photo into Successful, Undervalued or Not successful categories. Creates an equal playing field for all photos. Creates a filtering option used by many Deep Dive apps. Completely independent of the Flickr Interestingness.	Inspired by great photographers on Flickr who's artwork is less known. Also inspired by the fact that good photos get forgotten after the 3rd page of a group - if at all posted to groups.
Data protection against Without Flickr login mode.	Data of user X in logged in mode is separate from data of user X in non-logged in mode. Nobody can impersonate your logged in self, Flickr protects you.
Extreme number of favs	Over 5000 favs Deep Dive will only know about your most recent 5000 favs. Photos faved earlier will appear as if they were not faved, but this does not in any way change your data on Flickr.
Session data mismatch	When you see this message, it means that this particular operation is not advised to run in a second session.

Terms and Conditions

Conditions	Use of the site and application implies that you agree with the Terms and Conditions.
Warranty	Absolutely no warranty, use at your own risk.
Privacy	No application functionality touches your private photos in any way, unless you access your own private photos.
	No commercial data of any kind is collected or sold about you.
Copyrights	All the images displayed are public photos stored on the Flickr servers. No permanent links are created to any photos.