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The Dark Side of the Flickr Acquisition
blogs.smugmug.com — Yahoo's making some evil changes at Flickr, so Flickr refugees have been emailing other photo sharing companies looking for discounts. SmugMug's offering 50% off. Will others follow suit?
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- seann, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5SmugMug is phenomenal - the best.site.period for storing and sharing your photos.
- Trunkmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Ditto...I just cut my free trial short and signed up today! :)
- garbelini, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Spam?....Anyone?
- noonespillow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Great work on Smugmug's part. I hate to say goodbye to flickr, but it may come to that.
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"evil" changes? grow up... marked as lame
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have to agree - Besides, can you blame them not wanting to maintain two totally separate login systems? If you login via Yahoo (like anyone who signed up to Flickr since Yahoo bought them), you don't need to have another mail account (There's a fairly obvious choice when you go though the sign-up process), you just sign in with a different name.. I *really* don't see what the problem is..
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- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have to agree - Besides, can you blame them not wanting to maintain two totally separate login systems? If you login via Yahoo (like anyone who signed up to Flickr since Yahoo bought them), you don't need to have another mail account (There's a fairly obvious choice when you go though the sign-up process), you just sign in with a different name.. I *really* don't see what the problem is..
- rushonerok, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5since when is yahoo such a hated company? who gives a ***** what login system you use. get over it you ***** babies.
- yonas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Flickr is the best photo sharing site out there. Quit complaining. Marked as lame.
- ezrock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0What's eating this article out is that it's written by someone who's fighting to eat Flickr out from the market. If it'd been just another individual, this would matter more to me. Now it's kind of an ad.
It was kind of interesting anyway. - noshyuz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0spam-o-rama
and lame spam at that. - williamgunn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's the problem? How about yahoo asking for all kinds of intrusive personal information that flickr never needed?
That's the problem! The one and only problem is that yahoo wants personal information that flickr never needed.
That's the one and only thing you should take away from this. It's not just logging in at a different page.
There's no reason that old skool flickr users shouldn't be able to login at the new login page on 3/15 using their old credentials, or even username_flickr. No reason at all. Maybe you don't care how many insecure web accounts have your personal information in them, or more likely, you just gave bad info. However, yahoo can delete your flickr account and all your pictures unless you give the accurate info, and though they most likely never will it's not something that many flickr users want to risk. Luckily, smugmug and picasa web albums seem to be decent alternatives.
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