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Once I figure out how to force the log in to remain persistent so I'm not fucking around with signing in/out, I'll ignore Yahoo and continue to use Flickr.
Once your account is merged, you just need to log into flickr once. From then on, you will remain logged into flickr for as long as you don't delete your cookies - just like with your Old-Skool login. You can log into or out of Yahoo! as much as you like (or don't like) without affecting your flickr login status.
If/when Yahoo intrudes into my daily use of Flickr in an unacceptable manner, I will reclaim all of my photos and delete my account.
Yahoo!, however despicable some of you might find it, has understood from day 1 that Flickr needs to be left alone; that it really is its own place, run by people who understand it well.
In addition, we have our own separate office and have rigged it with Home Alone-style boobie-traps, should we ever need to repel "intruders".
But seriously, everyone on the flickr staff cares an insane amount about the site and the community, which is why we try to be as active as possible on the forums, even at midnight. There is no difference between the members of the original Ludicorp team and relative newcomers like myself in this regard. We care about flickr, and we will always strive to keep it "flickr".
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In addition, we have our own separate office and have rigged it with Home Alone-style boobie-traps, should we ever need to repel "intruders".
I'd like to see photographic evidence of this please. ;)
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I think this is one of the worst things you've done. Your job is to do everything in your power to make our life in flickr easier and more fun, even if it makes your job harder, this is way it's a great site and why I'm willing to pay rather than just using one of the free services outhere.
Anyway, as I said I'm not so happy with flickr anymore, is there an option to download all my pictures in one go (as a zip or something) so I can migrate rather than merge?
It's a shame that it turn to that by I guess most good things come to an end. I do think that if you force all these changes you should have the decency to allow your old skool members (the same people that made you attractive to yahoo in the first place, when this was still an alfa and beta site) to download all the stuff they have and move on.
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If I merged my account months ago, can I still get a kitten?
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god, is there a bunch of argle bargle on this thread!
But it does suck that you can't manage more than one Flickr account from the same Yahoo! account. Signing in and out of Yahoo to get to different Flickr accounts ... Definitely not good. But something that could be addressed, I would think.
As for the rest of it ... feh. Even though I hadn't merged my accounts until today, I've had a Yahoo!l account for quite a while, and somehow life has gone on as normal.
Flickr recently gave me unlimited space for storing photos for the measly amount they charge for a yearly membership. Somehow I don't imagine them being able to do that without the resources of Yahoo! behind them.
I can't begin to list the things that are awesome about this site. On the other hand, I am indifferent to Yahoo!, but I just can't get very riled up about being required to sign in to Flickr a little differently.
But managing more than one Flickr account from a single Yahoo! account would be good. ... Oh, and raising the limit on individual picture uploads slightly, to around 15MB instead of 10MB, would mean that I wouldn't have to downsize about half the photos I shoot with my 12MP camera. How about it?? Just to sweeten the mood? (he asked ever so sweetly)
Anyway, hang in, Flickr folk.
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Well, I just did the merging and it wasn't bad -- but I had another Flickr account associated with the Yahoo! account I had, which meant that I had to delete that account for the merger to work. Now I have to put up with the annoying Yahoo! login everytime.
Honestly, this does suck. I've been dilly-dallying about going pro, but after reading the comments here and seeing the ultimatums "merge with Yahoo! or bust", it's probably a good idea I didn't.
Isn't there something in business and usability that talks about listening to your users and customers? I think Yahoo! and Flickr should take Biz 101.
Then again, I've already ranted about this elsewhere.
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I have to say, although it really isn't like me, that I'm pretty pissed off. I continued using Flickr even when it sold out to Yahoo because I was told, repeatedly, what Mr hitherto states above: That Yahoo would "leave Flickr alone". Why, then, this move?
Remember, it's not just a change in the sign-in process. Read up on Yahoo on Wikipedia - they're not your nice, friendly web provider.
I. Don't. Trust. Yahoo.
I don't trust them to keep my private info (mandatory) private. I don't trust them not to relay all my data directly to Spammers. I don't trust them not to hide some clauses in their next change of terms of use that I'll just read over but which make me lose the rights to my pictures.
And, more importantly, I have had dealings with China in the past and may have them in the future. Being non-politically-correct and being on Flickr could well lead to trouble, as Yahoo has a history of disclosing member information to the Chinese authorities, directly leading to the death of four people in 2006.
Serious organizations like the National Union of Journalists of Britain have called on their members to boycott Yahoo.
I. Don't. Trust. Yahoo. And. Neither. Should. You.
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jeez, was it really such a struggle to keep the old skool where we were? the flickr folk must be recieving a handsome sum that's all i can say.
it used to be about the flickr users
if it sounds like i'm moaning i don't care!
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Thanks Flickr (said with sarcasm)
You have now tied me to my ISP.
I am in the UK, and my ISP is with BT who a couple of years ago became BTYahoo. Therefore my email address of xxxxxxx@btopenworld.com became a Yahoo address. This was the address I used as an Old Skool member. I have now gone through and merged seeing as it looks like we have no choice. So now I am using my Yahoo login of the same address.
However, should I ever change my ISP, then my Yahoo email address which is tied to my ISP will die. When that happens, all the time and effort I have put into Flickr is LOST forever. I see no way that I can change my attached Yahoo address to another Yahoo address.
THis was raised in a forum when Flickr first announced the changes over a year ago and Stewart Butterfield replied that this is not what should happen and he would look into it. I've never heard a thing since.
I am NOT amused.
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I love flickr...and now I hate yahoo.
what a great shame, why do I want yahoo's services, why did you have to sell to them? I tell you this, I would pay more not to have anything to do with yahoo.
...and you'll probably think, this is just the same as when you did the upgrade and plenty of people complained and then we all just got onto it. This is different.
I am seriously going to reconsider whether I want to use flickr...really. this is such a shame, will yahoo, google, msn, mac own everything? Is this what a open internet is about? Do we all have to sell out?
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Steve J: We'll be adding a way to move a Flickr account between 2 Yahoo IDs - so, that should address your concern.
JulianBleeckr: Despite your accusation that we're all suddenly in a Kafka novel (!), we'll certainly look into the possibility of linking more than one Flickr account to a single Yahoo! ID. Note that since I'm a designer, I'm just stabbing in the dark about the practicality of this. Just feels like I have to say something positive - however unfounded - amongst all this cynicism. Thanks for the suggestion. (You too, john.)
Oh, and, it's late here now. (Though Stanley should be up in an hour or two.) Rest assured that the whole Flickr team will be reading all of this tomorrow morning, and continuing to help iron out questions and stuff.
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I hope we don't all get the same problems I am getting with my other account. I have to go through heaps of error page because I'm finally in.
I posted it in the bug forum ages ago but did not get an official reply
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Butterfly? There are about 50 billion photos of the Flickr office, given that we're all totally addicted to Flickr as well ;)
flickr.com/photos/tags/flickrhq
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I only read the first 2 pages, so maybe someone hit these points since then:
1) I merged my accounts about 2 months ago. It works fine, I scarcely notice the difference.
2) Yahoo! already owns Flickr. They already have all that account info. Changing the sign-in page doesn't affect that one bit.
3) Once you get your Yahoo! ID, you never, ever have to use it other than to log in. Your Flickr ID is separate. You will remain logged in until you log out.
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It's a problem for me :)
At work we currently block yahoo logins because we have a policy of not allowing access to web email sites which could potentially be used to ferret out confidential data. That same restriction is not in place for *.flickr.com, just *.yahoo.com.
So we can't access Flickr from work during our lunch break, no big deal but inconvenient :)
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I don't want it. Who do I write to for a refund of my subscription.
But to show willing I tried to get a yahoo ID. I got an error.
"Yahoo! ID everyoneatyahooisawanker is unavailable."
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I don't like merging my flickr account with yahoo.
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dots and spaces: OF COURSE we should all reconsider! Flickr is one of the best photo sharing sites when it comes to functionality, but Yahoo... That's quite another thing. Censorship, cooperation with corrupt and murderous regimes, generally speaking: Untrustworthiness!
We don't have to endure this.
However, I wonder how Flickr will fulfill their side of the contract we Pro members have with them without allowing us access to the site? Construct a separate, flickr-only site in parallel to the Yahoo one? The do have legal obligations...
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Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member,
Blah, blah, blah….
Warmest regards
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Someone of you remember what yahoo said at the begining? “We will never, never change the sign in system”. :)
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As per the first time this was announcd; *sigh* seriously guys? It takes a bit of shine off of Flickr and it worries me that now any login problems will involve the Yahoo! corporate and not the nice, friendly and quick Flickr folk.
Del.icio.us will go the same way I guess.
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Oh come the fuck on everyone. Like someone else said, if you really gave a fucking shit you woulda jumped ship when the merger happened.
Fact is Yahoo had access to everything on Flickr since the merger happened. That includes your email addresses and them having the ability to change the TOS.
Now that they make you click two buttons and insert your Yahoo password or set up an account there (even though this is stupid) now you bitch because you're lazy and would rather bitch than just do it or just leave.
Leave or stay, but don't bitch and stay. That's just dumb.
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Hmm, nope, I don´t want to. I do not like the yahoo site and I don´t want to create a new account specially to merge with this. I realize I am not given a choice, I will eventually do it, and even probably renew the pro account which expires soon but I don´t like this at all.
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Desk003: To Flickr, I only had to supply an email address. To Yahoo, you have to supply a name (and your own, which is much worse!) and all sorts of personal information.
So the access Yahoo has to my Flickr data doesn't actually mean much. But giving my shoe size, sexual preference and who I voted for in the last election (among other things they ask you in the signup process) to a company that reportedly doesn't care what happens to its users (to the point of them getting executed) - that's something different entirely.
I don't bitch because I'm lazy - actually, I'm very busy looking for the best alternative to Flickr right now.
I bitch because I would really like to stay! I love to use Flickr!
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Well, that's me not using flickr after the deadline then. I will not use yahoo under any circumstances. Well, let's clarify that a bit... I might possibly create a yahoo sign in if (and only if) they agreed to pay me the sum of £50,000 per year (or part thereof) for the duration. Is this likely? Do pigs fly?
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desk003: I joined Flickr a good while ago and every time they change something people protest (I think the biggest so far was the move from flash system to the DHTML and all the copying images problems that came with it). The thing is that much like their owner company, Yahoo, they just don't give us any option. I might want to leave but all my pictures are on Flickr! If they gave me the options of downloading all my pictures at once I could checkout other options on the web, or maybe just setup my own website using something like gallery. I think if Flickr would want to be decent they would allow me to leave them rather than force me to stay.
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Yes, I do understand, that the Flickr/Yahoo team needs unified mechanisms to better serve their services to us users...
But: The local terms for my german Yahoo ID demands me to accepts that I grant Yahoo an unlimited free license for all my uploaded content to be used in any media. This is certainly a term that I cannot agree and that is also not covered by German copyright laws!
If it turns out, that I have to give away free licenses of my copyrighted material to continue my use of Flickr this would be a reason to stop my membership! I would feel very sorry about my 4000 pics and 2 years of motivated work on my Flickr content and the Flickr community...
This is an important question to get clear in advance - and I hope the Flickr team has a good answer to this point!?
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Bye bye flickr. I've enjoyed using it but refuse to be part of yahoo. Nice to meet you all. Farewell.
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Poo-tee-weet?: Flickr asks for your name too. And last I checked you never have to give your real name. You can always make something up, because it doesn't matter. And plus, giving your name isn't gonna do anything.
Oh, and you gave flickr your name already, thus Yahoo has it. So....
(PS: I hear zoomr is good, but I haven't used it myself)
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nah, it's the principle of being forced to do something. Maybe if I had to change it when I renewed my account I wouldn't have taken it so badly.
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What good has come of Yahoo!? All I can tell is we get to use their crappy map system which is looks like I made it compared to Google's most excellent system. Have you seen a map of London using Yahoo! Maps?! It's embarrassing.
Other than that, and this, what have they done?
Yahoo! don't even know where they're going with it, or del.icio.us for that matter.
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Don't forget to update your Flickr-Yahoo-login-page Flickroons .. ;)
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I am going to cut off my shutter finger as a gesture of solidarity with the die hard old skoolers. That will teach those yahoos* a thing or two.
Or it won't.
*In the Swift sense.
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Desk003: You miss a point here. As several posters in this thread have pointed out, Yahoo has a clause in their terms of use that allows them to do basically anything they want with your account should it become clear that you personal info is not correct to the last iota. Including denying you any further access to it.
Flickr didn't do that.
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George - this is not cynicism, its disappointment, and pessimism - I chose to join flickr, I didn't choose to join yahoo.
So, now I'll have to have to stupid id name of dotsandspaces4938293095 unless that's already gone, and get emails every week selling me stuff I don't want, and have my details passed to other web companies I don't want to deal with, and feel constantly monitored, and tick hundreds of opt-out boxes.
Also, since the merger - family members who aren't that web savvy can't cope with the whole yahoo signup - and I think you know that, otherwise you wouldn't have done the email access to sets.
you know this sucks too, admit it.
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> Yahoo has a clause in their terms of use that allows them to do basically anything they want with your account should it become clear that you personal info is not correct to the last iota.
but do they actually enforce it and delete accounts with fake names?
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i have 2 yahoo accounts (i hope that's not forbidden by the yahoo TOS!)
if i link one yahoo-ID to flickr and use it to log into flickr, can i use my other yahoo-ID for IM?
if i do that, will flickr ask me my password again each time i return to flickr?
or will flickr remember that it should use my OTHER yahoo-ID for log-in (i.e. not my currently-logged-in yahoo-ID)?
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What I object to is basically having my terms and conditions totally changed half way through a contract. I know that flickr staff have said previously in this thread that the t's & c's are in effect the same with a few big words added but the fact is that they are a totally new version of the them, it's not just one or two small changes here and there. Surely that's illegal? If the t's&c's changed at point of renewal I wouldn't have real cause for complaint, it's being forced to do this that I object to.
Also given a choice I'd stay as far away from the yahoo empire as I possibly could.
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loupiote: The point is that they CAN. And, as stated in my above post, I think they can't be trusted, and so do big human rights organizations around the world.
And trust me - Yahoo staff won't give a **** if individual Flickr users can use the service as they were used to doing.
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I hear zoomr is good, but I haven't used it myself I checked it out sometime ago but I wasn't too impressed, especially by the clumsy Pidgin German of the localized version. Besides that they use OpenID which is the same centralized sign-in crap as Yahoo ID (except that it's politically correct) sigining you into half a dozen services at the same time even if you plan to use only one of them. I also expect that some day soon Google will buy Zooomr :)
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I'm equally upset about being forced to merge. I don't need or want any other Yahoo services, and prefer to tie my flickr accoun to my other web services provider -- indeed I deleted my Yahoo account a couple years back, and it seems there are no reasonable UIDs left (that don't end in 3 digits). If I'm paying for the Flickr service, why should I not have a choice?
This seems designed to cause pain to those 5% of users (according to the message) who have *chosen* not to use a Yahoo ID -- for whatever reason. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
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What if I don't want a Yahoo account?
What if I can't find a single meaningful user name left on yahoo?
I'm annoyed by this...especially annoyed thatI just paid for another year.
What are the alternatives to Flickr out there?
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knixo@yahoo.com is available :)
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Disappointed whit that move. Is that any legal action that Old Skool Lovers can starts?
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I think this is terrible news. I have more to say on my blog
kosso.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/damn-youhoo-flickr/
Folks, we have been totally sold out. I wish I had never renewed my account recently.
Time to find (or build) a new service.
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I WANT OUT!
Let me take my pictures and go elsewhere, where I'll be respected as a customer.
EUL and TOU SHOULD NOT BE PART OF A COMMUNITY
If you think differently then we disagree and I want to download everything I have, delete my account and leave what use to be my community
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this really sucks.
only because yahoo is interested in audience economy, you shouldnt be making me sign up for yahoo. i was only interested in flickr not yahoo; pretendeing everything will remain the same for the users is bull.
my name, my profile, my tags and my photos will help yahoo to make their statistics, to be able to precisely estimate their value based on viewers so they can raise prices for ads on yahoo, so they can sell information to other companies, and of course to just continue owning more than 80% of today's web content- together with microsoft and google.
i am very disappointed and i'm thinking about erasing my account. this web2.0 euphoria will stop soon and i hope people will understand that those perfect tools of expressing one's individualism are only there to gather information into collective pools. that's absurd.
thanks for slowly destroying what could have become a cooler medium than tv and radio, but now just sucks as bad.
the revolution will not be added to your favorites.
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Pagis: That's a question I asked before. I not only want all my photos (I have a lot of flickr-only photos - they don't even exist on my hard disk), I want the comments and critiques I got on them. Is there a way?
But,
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pah, i had to do it for blogger and my gmail... i don't think this will be the end of it....
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I am a member since August 15 2005, last day to be old school, and was told a few days later that we would all have to merge the accounts soon, in late Fall '05. I am surprised but glad it took so long. I do not mind as much as others though. I will wait at the last minute to merge. I like my old school way.
A bit off topic yet related to email addresses. Let me know where to put this if really not welcomed here.
I do not know the usefulness of more than one email address linked to my Flickr account and cannot find the answer. What to I do with a second or third email address associated with my Flickr account.
So far, I rarely go to my Yahoo account and just read my mail in Flickr. What I would find handiest is that all my system mail be directed to my Yahoo account which I do not want to visit as often and which is for non-personal mail. All my private (non-system) Flickr mail be directed to an address of my choice. This way, I could open right away my private Flick messages and even keep them all in the same place as my other private mail. That would make such a difference.
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I am not happy with this at all!!
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get emails every week selling me stuff I don't want I don't like Yahoo. But to be fair, I have a Yahoo account for more than 5 years now and I haven't had any commercial mails in my mailbox so far. But maybe yahoo.de is different from yahoo.com, or my user profile is so bizarre that they just don't know what to sell me.
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I think I will contact my friend Kris from Zooomr, and see we if we can find a way to 'merge' disconcerted flickr users like myself to his system.
Is there any way we can know how many flickr account are live as of today? It will be interesting to see how this changes over the next year.
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I think the 'Game Never Ending' just did ;)
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Hmmmm, well let's have a look. They developed a free service and it was really great. But there was no money in it so they sold it to yahoo who gave them a wheelbarrow load of cash for their troubles. So now Yahoo wants you to come into Yahoo land so they can whack you with adverts to pay for the service. It ain't pretty but it is the price you pay for 'free'.
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I just signed up and uploaded a photo as an experiment after seeing this thread featured on the BBC News website. No problems registering, or finding an appropriate user ID ;-) . I seem to have a new email inbox, but as I cleared the "Yahoo Mail" checkbox I think it's probably just the Flickr one. I'll be interested to see if the experience is a good or bad one from now on.
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> It ain't pretty but it is the price you pay for 'free'
but most of the old skool members that posted in this thread are "pro", i.e. they pay for the service...
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Ho hum.
2005 (or earlier): Yahoo buy Flickr. Yahoo a nasty evil company.
2006: People continue to buy Flickr pro accounts, even though they know that Yahoo is a nasty, evil company. (And, yes, frankly, I do mean this bit. I'm glad I'm not Chinese.)
2007: Flickr change sign-in. No-one injured. No-one dies.
I truly hope that I can remain signed in to Flickr as I have been told but the compelling reason to stay with Flickr will remain: I have huge numbers of pictures on here which I share with family, friends and complete strangers.
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I'm gone, I'll let my subscription expire and find another service.
The Yahoo session structure sucks, I all but ended any of my involvement with their services last year.
I don't want to be part of the 'brand' anyway.
This really REALLY sucks.
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indeed there is a link on BBC News website (technology section) under:
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE
" Big mistake, flickr overlords. Big mistake. "
Flickr users debate changes to the site imposed by owner Yahoo
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longwayround: agreed.
threlly: they've been part of yahoo since 2005. you're already part of their "brand".
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2004 - I PAID flickr for a service.
2007 - (after renewals) I get sold out.
I think Yahoo! are about to realise what an amazingly active community there is here on flickr, and how online communities do not like being told what to do.
They're also going to see how useful the flickr API is, for those of us who want to move our photos elsewhere. ;)
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longwayround said it for me, although I'd add that Yahoo isn't just evil, Yahoo is also laughably bad... - Geocities ($3.5bn!) Broadcast.com ($5bn, hahaha!)
Flickr is the best service available and until it becomes totally unusable I'll be sticking with it. Yahoo are exceedingly good at making things totally unusable, true, but I trust in the Flickr office booby traps.
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People continue to buy Flickr pro accounts, even though they know that Yahoo is a nasty, evil company. Mine was actually a gift, so I plead for "not guilty" :-P I admit I still wasn't sure if I would extend it when it expires, but as for now I probably won't.
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Do I get my money back?
I guess as "Old Skoolers" only count 5% we just don't matter and don't have a voice.
Bad move Flickr
PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME my "patience" and "understanding" because you do NOT have it.
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I need some of this money that entitles me to anything and everything for all time. Where do you get it from? Mine is just ordinary money that gets me what I pay for.
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I knew the day would come.... I resisted when it was first discussed and put it off for as long as I could. I could complain -- although not the first time I mentioned my dislike of the idea, but in the end it doesn't change anything.
Technology aside, uber gifted techies aside, wonderful products like Flickr aside. In my eyes, it just ain't cool to NOT be Old Skool.
Flying the Old Skool Flag one last time
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Does anyone have any links to systems which allow download/backup of flickr photos? I'm building one here right now, but I will happily link to and try out any others out there. (there must be some)
I have nearly 4000 photos to move.
If I can find a sensible way and format to get and store any other data, like the comments etc, then I'll throw that in too.
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yes this day has been coming for a long long time - why then would poeple continue to use flickr if they had so many issues with yahoo? i dont understand that. why renew? why recommend the site to others? why bother to continue uploading and favouriting.
since 2005 we have known that one day the old skool log ins would go away - back then they said "2006" as the merger date, so now its march 2007. whats changed?
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It looks like the topic is about ONE BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
Flickr made a poo!
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kosso: if i remember correctly (cant find link now) there was/is talk of having the main photo sites be able to "talk" to each other. maybe when that happens you can move over.
microprofessor: im not dissapointed :) just baffled by the reactions of some people to something that has been well flagged for 18months
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Anybody know a good flikr replacement ( ideally one that can suck the photos right off flickr ) ?
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Google for FlickrBackup, but bear in mind that Google are a wicked evil megacorp too nowadays.
I've been doing this now and then for a while just because I would have to burst into big tears if I lost my Flickr pictures.
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nostalgic old-skoolers can always add "old skool" in their screen name :)
as long as yahoo does not decide to use our yahoo-ID as flickr screen names...
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1541 : I can now list and download all my photos, but it would be cool to also have some ftp details (or something) so I could then automatically send them on to the new host. Restoring all the community stuff - comments etc, will be the hard bit - and to many, the main reason why people love flickr so much.
;)
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FlickrBackup is a Java tool to do batch-download of flickr images.
sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/
(website very slow - hmmm i wonder why?)
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perhaps yahoo could buy them and give them the resources they need to grow and expand :) ?
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* maintaining two separate systems is a pain, and ...
So, you had an option to keep only the old skool system ...
force your users to do something they ( as you can see ) don't wan't is ******.
I liked flickr and use to promote it so very much ... not anymore
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For the users who have used the Old Skool login up until now, were experiencing Flickr, not Yahoo (maybe a little, with the Yahoo flavored main login page). We have held out this long, because we still want to use Flickr, someone we trust. Now we are being forced to use Yahoo, which we do not trust (the reasons are peppered throughout this thread).
This is a big change.
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Hi Brenda,
What, seeing the mess I had with a deleted Yahoo account wasn't bad enough? Was this REALLY necessary or just a marketing ploy so Yahoo can now show even more people ignoring your email and search pages?
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They already ruined the login to comment links for us a while ago ie: see a photo you want to comment on (while not logged in) click to log in - get forced to another login page - then totally lose the link redirect to the original photo.
ARGH!
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I wonder if we'll get junk Yapoo emails in our Flickr mail now !!!
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loupiote (Old Skool): Thanks for the link, I'm out of this website for good!
Anyone knows a website which is something like Flickr use to be like?
going to check out the market, download my pictures and upload elsewhere, lots of work, but I hope at the next website I will be respected.
Maybe we should try to move together to one of the other website, this will give us some power to maybe "ask" for some changes to be made i it and so on.
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since 2005 we have known that one day the old skool log ins would go away - back then they said "2006" as the merger date, so now its march 2007. whats changed? Now it's inevitable, that's what changed. It had been announced so long ago, but then 2006 passed and nothing happened, that I honestly hoped they might have changed their minds to leave the oldskool login in place. I was wrong.
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put something on the outside of your system so I can login using my flickr username and it automatically logs me into my yahoo login. oh, i ask this because i'm a paying customer. do it now.
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no, i won't do it. i'd rather get rid of my account than have to sign up for a yahoo account.. so if that is what you are going to do..i'm saying :
bye bye flickr
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what if you just simply hate yahoo?
now's the time for google to step in with a Flickr Killr
i'll prob leave anyway, just on principle
DIGG this issue here:
Flickr Sux
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Zooomr ( beta.zooomr.com ) is often called 'flickr on steroids' - it still has a 100MB limit (though this would increase for paid users or if Kris got this baby funded properly ; ) )
I'll try to contact him to suggest a way to import ('MERGE') flickr users over. ;)
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Mr. Last Minute: "I honestly hoped they might have changed their minds to leave the oldskool login in place. I was wrong."
they were never going to change their minds about something like this. it was always inevitable.
the-O-ster: "what if you just simply hate yahoo? .. i'll prob leave anyway, just on principle"
okay, but why continue to pay money for the last while to a company you hate? why not go to zoomr or 23hq or whomever?
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boycott yahoo!!
e.g google brought sketchup but still leaves it as it is and was!
u do not need an google account to use it!
so yahoo has to do, too.
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I thought Zooomr was called "a rip-off of flickr that's still incredibly flaky, with a really gay logo" maybe I just read that on a blog somewhere
Plus you need to sign up to some weird ID thing to use it.
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dualist: "u do not need an google account to use it! (sketchup)" thats a silly comparison - why would you need a google account to use sketchup?
you happened to ignore the fact that google requires a google account to sign into picasa web album...
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So what are the best alternatives?
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Zooomr does indeed create an OpenID for you (but this will be a good thing in the long run and it's v simple)
Subjective branding issues aside, Zooomr is ripe to take over. And also Kris Tate, the uber-smart kid behind it, will listen to us ;) - He'll have some work to do, but it is SO doable.
Rather like when you move a blog from Blogger to Wordpress : you can simply import all your blogger.com posts to wordpress. Very easy.
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Im dissapointed we have to use Yahoo. OK, so its simply a different ID to sign in and thats all that seems to be different but I've avoided Yahoo for so long for a reason; it simply sucks! And I hate feeling forced into doing things, and now, to carry on using Flickr, which is excellent, I have to use stupid Yahoo.
Im certainly not happy but begrudingly have had to sign up. I'm not impressed at all. Bad Flickr, no cookies for you!
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i've heard of www.deviantart.com/
i was thinking of - maybe - migrating there someday, if i need to. but they don't have tags :(
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I have read that Photobucket actually has more users than flickr - though I have no experience with it (having been a very happy and proud flickr user and evangelist for a long time)
Also, there's Google Picassa. but again., I havent tried it - though people I know rave about it over flickr.
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There aren't many services out there that do what Flickr has done so well. It's just not posting photos, it's a community. You don't see that much these days.
I think Photobucket is just for displaying, there isn't the community surrounding it.
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DeviantArt uses some very clever technology behind it - now, if only I could find the link describing it which I read a while ago ;)
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