Comments on: Flickr Losing Lustr

By: Jeremey

Jeremey — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

At first I was pissed about the Yahoo! thing, but that was based on assuming that my Flickr account (“jeremey”) would become my Yahoo! ID … but that’s not so, the Yahoo! credentials are for login only. So I don’t really care, I made the switch.

As far as the contacts and tags… I couldn’t care less. If you have 3000 contacts, they’ve lost their utility.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I agree about Yahoo. My website was through Yahoo Small Business. One day, everything was fine. Next day, *poof* gone. I called Bombay, er, “Customer Service”, and the gal I spoke to hadn’t a clue as to what happened. I emailed YSB and basically said, “Fine. I’ll keep my money.” Deleted my Flickr account, too. Screw Yahoo.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just reluctantly created a Yahoo account specifically for Flickr. I would much prefer to use my standard email address rather than have a Yahoo account, but such is life. I imagine that del.icio.us will be next to fall victim to this.

I have been thinking about using Flickr strictly for my more personal/amateur photos and using a different service for more professional photos maybe something like SmugMug.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m not a fan of yahoo!, but i don’t particularly have anything against them. I don’t over-tag my photos, I don’t have anywhere near 3000 contacts… and so, personally, i’m not against the merge.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ever since Yahoo bought Flickr, I've been waiting for them to kill it. So far, they haven't done anything I can't deal with. I don't have nearly 3000 contacts, and have never put more than a half dozen tags on a photo. I don't like Yahoo login, either, but it's stored in my browser, so it's usually not a problem.

My real fear, though, is that it will just get worse. Yahoo does not have a history of improving things. It seems likely that each day we use Flickr, it will be worse than it was yesterday.

By: Chris Garrett

Chris Garrett — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah the Yahoo! login is a small irritation in the scheme of things, I just hope it’s not the start of many small irritations – death by a thousand paper cuts. One good thing about the Yahoo! meddling could be infrastructure to do truly cool things, like allow picture sales – my long dreamt about stock photo feature