Flickr Losing Lustr

DSLRBlog Editors — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:52:05 +0000

Flickr have decided to downgrade their service. First downgrade won’t affect most of us, I don’t know many people who will be too upset with this one:

the new maximum number of contacts is 3,000 contacts (good luck with that), and each photo on Flickr can have a maximum of 75 tags.

It’s the second that has me upset:

On March 15th, 2007 we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.

I hate hate HATE Yahoo! logins. I don’t use Yahoo! services, any of them, despite my ISP being affiliated with them. My hope is that Flickr have a change of heart, or at least don’t further break their up to now excellent service with further backward “improvements” otherwise when my paid membership is used up I will be one of the many leaving. Restricting contacts etc, that just confirms their madness, but inflicting the sucky Yahoo! user account (and all that entails) just … annoys, irritates, blows.

It’s not the end of the world, certainly not the apocalypse you would think reading the forums, and believe me I feel for the Flickr dudes and dudettes who are taking the flak right now for this.

Thomas Hawk has done a great job rounding up the members reactions.

Flickr needs to reverse the asinine decisions made today to force people to merge their accounts with Yahoo and to place new limits on your contacts and tags.

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Flickr Losing Lustr