It is so completely lame to whine about having to use your Yahoo ID for Flickr. You knew this was coming a year ago. If you avoided it this long, it’s your own fault. No one is forcing you to use Flickr. If you don’t like their policies, leave. You’ve had a year to let your pro account expire. Bunch of whiners.
001 // Brian Ford // 01.31.2007 // 12:03 PM
What does having a pro account expire matter? Surely the account will transfer over to the Yahoo ID?
I don’t think it’s all that big of a deal, but I don’t really have an active Yahoo ID, which means I’ll need to sign up for one — which I’m not all that interested in doing. But, as I don’t have a choice…
002 // Jeff Croft // 01.31.2007 // 12:15 PM
Yes, what I meant was…they told you a year ago that you were going to have to switch to a Yahoo ID. If you didn’t like it, you could have simply let your pro account expire and gone elsewhere. The point was that no one has paid for this service without knowing in advance they were going to have to change. If you didn’t like it, you shouldn’t have renewed your account.
I understand it’s a bit of an inconvenience, but they gave you a ton of warning and they’ve made the process dead-simple. It’s far less of an inconvenience for you to create a Yahoo ID than it is for the developers at Flickr to keep supporting two totally separate authentication backends.
And you do have a choice. There’s a bazillion photo sharing sites on the web. If anyone is really that offended by this (it doesn’t sound like you are, Brian, but some people seem to be), they can pack up their photos and go elsewhere. And yes, they really can pack up their photos — that’s the beauty of Flickr’s openness with their API and all!
003 // Baxter // 01.31.2007 // 1:19 PM
I think my only complaint would be that’s its virtually impossible to get a yahoo ID you might like AND remember anymore*. But that’s not exactly flickr’s fault, nor is the problem confined to Yahoo.
But then, I don’t use Flickr — nobody would want me to share my meager attempts — so I probably shouldn’t have an opinion at all.
*Somewhere I have the password to baxter@yahoo.com that I picked up in the dark ages. Wish I knew where it was.
004 // David Hemphill // 01.31.2007 // 10:44 PM
I’ve been using Flickr for a while, and I knew this was coming. It’s no big deal.
I even got an invite to a Flickr protest group against the merging. Ridiculous.
005 // Paul Mayne // 02.01.2007 // 11:38 AM
I was annoyed a year ago when they initially required the merge because the Yahoo login required me to re-login every time I visited Flickr. So I reverted back to my “old skool” login.
Two days ago I re-merged with my Yahoo account and have not had to re-login to Flickr once (since the initial login). So as long at that’s working smooth, I don’t have a problem with it.