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Nooooooooooooooo...oooooo...oooooooo....
:(
What if I don't want to use the extra features that require a Yahoo! ID? ;)
And what about that issue with signing in to flickr and then ending up being signed in to Yahoo! mail and all that? Was that fixed yet?
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is yahoo offering any sort of counselling for people who go into fits of rage after the 387th attempt to find an available user ID that doesn't suck?
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I suspected the day was coming, but I fought it hard.
I know it's childish but.... Yuck. I hate my yahoo signin name. I really hate the inelegant design of the Yahoo sign-in page. And I hate having to keep another login name in my head. I also liked feeling special and 'old skool'. and i wonder what oter change sit will bring to my account.
ah well... you cannot step in the same river twice and all of that.
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What an incredible disappointment.
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Sorry. I'm not doing it till I'm forced to after the deadline. I hate the intermittency of Yahoo login sessions and I'm going to stave off that displeasure for as long as possible. Very disappointed.
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Gee guys, it's not like this was a surprise. In August 2005, Flickr announced that sometime in the future (I think they said in 2006), all Flickr accounts had to start logging in with a Y! ID. So this isn't news. The news is the deadline that has been set.
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What a bummer. Why is this necessary?
I won't be able to just surf directly to my Flickr account like I do now unless I want to keep myself signed into Yahoo all the time (with all of their fabulous tracking cookies and 1 pixel emails).
This really, really sucks.
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Yes Brenda, but until now, we could pretend that it wasn't going to happen... or hope that maybe they'd changed their minds...
Now we have this deadline looming over our heads; it's like those Y2K clocks you'd see everywhere, counting down the minutes till the apocalypse.
:)
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Brenda, we're just late in our complaining. and Gee, we don't have to like it, even if we knew about it before.
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I merged my account to an existing Yahoo ID and successfully uploaded a photo. As the guy falling off the Empire Building said, "I'm okay so far."
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I'm willing to give this a fair try, but given that it's already more laborious and intrusive (my gender? what business in hell is it of yahoo's whether I'm male, female or something else entirely?! not that I'm offered that last option in the form) to even create the ID than anything on flickr ever was, I'm not at all convinced it has any advantages for me.
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Who's late? I've complained about it ever since the first announcement it was going to happen.
Ever hear of the Flick off group? :)
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Brenda thinks we're late in responding or shoudl take the change complacently.
Yes, we knew flickr was bought by yahoo. it's just irritating to be forced to take part in Yahoo-- before we had a choice..
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Gee, we don't have to like it, even if we knew about it before.
Yeah, I know. :) I mean, I'm 'old skool' too even though I merged my account back in Sept '05. I'm still here, so I guess it isn't an apocalyptic event, that's all.
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I know. I am over-reacting I suppose. I'l just Flick off, now! ;)
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Sorry to pile-on, but I'm kind of bummed about this as well.
After several years of bad service from SBC/AT&T and Yahoo, I finally ditched the DSL service and switched to Comcast. Apparently, as a result of this, Yahoo decided to terminate my Yahoo account. Luckily, my Yahoo account was for spam only, so that wasn't much of an issue, but I was unable to sign into Flickr at all. At no time was it ever indicated that my Yahoo web service would be revoked.
I emailed Flickr and they tweaked my account to "old skool" status, so I could get back on Flickr. I didn't bother getting a new Yahoo account because they're been nothing but a headache for years. Good riddance.
I love Flickr so I'll obviously have to re-apply with Yahoo, whilst finding an ID that no one's thought of since 1995. While I understand Yahoo owns Flickr, I hope it will have the sense not to try to fix what's not broken (though a bit more bandwidth would be nice).
Why, Google, couldn't *you* have purchased my beloved Flickr?!
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Well, the apocalypse comment was a little tongue-in-cheek, since we all know the world's computers didn't explode and the economy fall apart when the year turned 2000.
But, you know, it's still a dreaded change...
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I would just like to swear a bit. Is that acceptable? ******* ****'* and ******* ****-**** *** of a ***** **** **** **** ***** **** *****!!!!!!
And Ya Poo can bugger off an' all.
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what do you mean, old skool?
Also, it may be very convenient for Yahoo but this is not the Flickr way. As we are paying members, perhaps you should be making it convenient for us.
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Oh no. My pro account expires on the 17th of March! And I have to sign up to Yahoo on the 15th. Beware the ides of March. Beware the ides of March. Woe, Woe, Lurkio.
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@ troy McClure -- oh F**&^! Does this mean we have to keep a Yahoo account in good standing, or it will expire and we'll be locked out of flickr? argh
(crawling back under her rock...)
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:-(
Thumbs way down. Sorry, friends whose Flickrs I used to comment on...you won't be hearing from me again. I don't do Yahoo.
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None of my default login names are available so now I have to invent a whole new one. F*CK. This irritates me to no end. I look forward to my new "DSKJFE132@yahoo.com" login name.
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Booooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =(
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so no more OLD SKOOL
that sucks.
but now I'm merging my account.
you killed OLD SKOOL style.
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Yahoo IDs are all about collecting demographics and exploiting them for maximum marketing potential, right down to misleading 'opt-out' interfaces that opt you right back in to what you're trying frantically to get the hell off you.
I haven't decided yet whether I'll retain my Flickr account after March 15 - my feelings about Yahoo as a company are that negative.
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Amazing. I've just being trying out yahoo usernames, and even: yahooarecuntsandthescumoftheearf isn't available. HELP!!!!!!!!!
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But my Yahoo ID is connected to a Flickr account that isn't my primary one. Is there anything one can do to keep two Flickr accounts but switch the Yahoo associations so that main account = main account?
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And yahooareshitesslidingdownastick is unavailable too.Blimey.
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Come on, don't start saying "gee guys". Try and understand. Where's Caterina, maybe she can explain it.
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This is SO COMPLETELY LAME. Flickr and yahoo could and should grandfather people into their system who have been here for a while and created the reason that flickr even got bought in the first place.
DOES YOUR DEVELOPMENT STAFF NOT KNOW HOW TO CODE? Or is it just lame business logic to make it look like Yahoo has more users?
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booooo!
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 Come on, don't start saying "gee guys".
I assume that's aimed at me. I can say "gee guys" ... I don't work here. :) And, as an old-skooler, I do understand. Gee.
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passionate users anyone? lol
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I am very unhappy about this - yes, I was unhappy from the first time on I heard about it but still hoped somehow it wouldn't happen - obviously silly from me to keep that hope.
I am unhappy about it and I don't like to be kinda "forced" to open up a yahoo-account in order to be able to continue to use flickr. I have had good reasons why I didn't open up a yahoo-account and none of this reasons disappeared over the years.
For me this means I have to befriend with the thought to give up my flickr account. This is very sad because so far I loved flickr and enjoyed to be part of it. Probably not too many people will miss me if I really come to the decision to give up flickr - there are lots of other flickr users still being around so it doesn't matter much if one or a few - even if it would be a few hundert users - would give up flickr. Who cares? But for me - and probably at least a few other flickr user feeling similar it is sad. My account expires on 8th March so till then I will have to make my final decision and I fear it means saying goodbye to flickr as an active user. :(
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I've been having fun here.
yahoocrazedaxemurdershitetripe
y_a_h_o_ooo_o_i_s_s_h_i_t_e
are unavailable.
dungsplorfcrapshitenexuspoignard
asdfrihdsigfhsfidshfids
are.
For now. For the time being. Ok.... :-)
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chelseagirl - yep, and you know, when you create a yahooID now, they automatically create a yahoo mail address, which you have to sign into every so often to keep it active. And if you don't keep your YahooID active, they delete it and then your Flickr account is orphaned.
Unless they've fixed it (like they should) so that Flickr activity counts as Yahoo activity.
(Hmm... maybe that's the reasoning behind signing in to flickr and having it sign into your mail.yahoo.com account...)
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What does Old Skool mean?
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what business in hell is it of yahoo's whether I'm male, female or something else entirely?! not that I'm offered that last option in the form
was a serious question, by the way. I find that quite offensive.
not entirely sure what to pick out of a set of security questions that don't bear any relevance to anything that's important to me (and I would therefore reliably remember in a pinch) either. maybe I should just consider the next several thousand attempts to find a decent ID as a reprieve from the next difficult bit.
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Yahoo! ID yahwho1234cun_ts384aredeffo is unavailable.
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Jesus wept.
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Totally lame.
Yahoo logins apparently log out after a set amount of time to "protect me". Sod protecting me, leave me logged in to Flickr all the time! God damn, I loathe these corporate idiots.
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when you create a yahooID now, they automatically create a yahoo mail address
there's a check box you can uncheck saying "Create my free Yahoo! email address."
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Yahoo mail? They can't do that to us, surely?
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y1a2h3w4h5o6a7r8e9c8u7n6t5s4 is unavailable.
Unbelievable.
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If anyone wants to see what the process is like (including setting up your own personal signin seal), check out this set.
I'm bummed about it, but it was inevitable.
Is Upcoming next?
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Is there, shining example? Because last I heard, they didn't give you that option. I haven't signed up for Yahoo! for a while (thank goodness I got a decent username when it was available!!) so I guess I should have said "Last I heard..." Or maybe they changed it back.
Even still - having to then give them an alternate email address in its place isn't much better. I don't want them having access to all my personal information. Like I said, I signed up a while ago (it was only so I could access a couple Yahoo groups, to be honest - and now to do the fantasy sports with my husband) but I hate *hate* hate giving out all that stuff to a company like Yahoo.
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i've defended flickr's decision to require a merge before, but i always held out hope that they'd provide a compelling reason for people to WANT to merge.
i'm very disappointed that they haven't. instead of creating reasons for flickr users to want to merge, they're offering some vague promise about future projects.
merging shouldn't have to feel like an obligation, it should feel like an opportunity.
in this respect, i am very disappointed with flickr's decision.
it certainly isn't the end of the world, but it is definitely very lame, uncool, and forces users to go to trouble* and receive zero benefit in return for their trouble.
*yes, filling out that awful yahoo form is a pain, no matter how quick flickr claims the process to be.
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striatic's post is bang on.
FlyButtafly, the checkbox is definitely there, and I've unticked it, so if I ever find a username, there will hopefully be no e-mail address associated wih it except the one I used to sign up to flickr with - they have that one anyway.
my name, my birthday, my gender, my postcode... what business of yahoo's any of this is I still fail to see.
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Does this mean that I lose my "old skool" Terms Of Use? Or does that remain after I merge (assuming I do)?
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caitlinburke wrote: Yahoo IDs are all about collecting demographics and exploiting them for maximum marketing potential, right down to misleading 'opt-out' interfaces that opt you right back in to what you're trying frantically to get the hell off you.
That bears repeating.
And yes, we know some people are perfectly happy to bend over and take it in the backside from Yahoo's "privacy" statement and marketing projects. If you're happy to take it, good for you. Most people don't enjoy Yahoo's special way of violating their users.
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From the Flickr FAQ:
I'm going to delete my Yahoo! account. What happens to my Flickr photos?
If you associated your Flickr account with your Yahoo! ID and you delete your Yahoo! account, you won't be able to sign in to your Flickr account. And all your photos will be deleted.
This disturbs me profoundly. Does Yahoo email expire if you never look at it? If so it seems that the logical conclusion is that my Flickr shots will the be erased. I hope this can be clarified...
I particularly find the smokescreen of "making new roll out easier" at the very least annoying. I am willing to acknowledge that simplifying signing in would be easier for Yahoo but it should still not be made mandatory.
This is mostly about saying "Yahoo has XXX million unique logins a month" for advertising purposes, IMO. I don't appreciate that.
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Thank the gods. ycauhnotos is available. I was beginning to wonder if they had an anagram filter. I'm sure you'll make short work of it.
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Hey, I have a question.
Who wanted this? Raise your hand.
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I am not pleased to be associated directly with Yahoo, but it seems there are no options for the pure of heart these days.
Besides, who are they going to turn us in to? Our government already knows everything about us anyhow.
Relax and bend with the breeze.
Or drop out.
The options are always the same.
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This sucks but we all knew it was coming.
Yahoo mail is the worst ever. Their spamguard is laughable. Inferior to GMail's spam protection.
Just get a username. Don't sign up for an email account. If you have firefox install the NoScript and Adblock extensions. These reduce their flash advert infested hole of a site down to bare text.
I allow flickr to set cookies. I only allow Yapoo! to set temporary cookies that are deleted at the end of my session. Will this affect my flickr viewing after doomsday?
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I've seen this before, with LaunchCast and mailing lists, which were great before Yahoo took over and they became unusable.
I've invested too much time in Flickr to risk all my work being lost by having to muck about with Yahoo mail.
I don't want to worry about all my photos being deleted or losing my Flickr friends and all their photos.
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Justin, you may have known it was coming, but it's a big surprise to me!
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chelseagirl: Yuck. I hate my yahoo signin name.
Just FYI, your Yahoo! sign in name won't show up on Flickr anywhere - and your Flickr screen name won't change as a result of merging your account.
More info about screen names:
- What if my Yahoo! ID happens to be the same as my Flickr "screen name"?
- What if someone is using my Flickr screen name as their Yahoo! ID?
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It's pastures new for me. I'll be letting all my accounts expire rather than put up with more Yahoo-based nonsense. Flickr is the new Starbucks.
Flickr is not the adventure playground it once was. The experimental, alternative vibe it had in the days before Yahoo is long gone. After the buyout was announced there was some question as to whether the new owners would kill the golden goose. It's been a slow death, one accomplished through a thousand cuts. As jovike says above, the focus should be on the subscribers. But it isn't. It's because Yahoo have never had a good grasp of customer service.
My existing photos could live on in cyberspace, marooned but visible to anyone who wants to visit the museum. But the new Flickr would rather reclaim the trivial amount of server space that requires. So my legacy and those of other old timers will just disappear.
So much for posterity and cyber-heritage. And there's still that old human rights record. And the censorship, both deliberate and accidental. The new Flickr is arbitrary about what it allows, and bumble-footed about fixing mistakes.
So it's on to pastures new. Someone else will be doing interesting, user-focused photo projects. I can give a startup the benefit of the doubt. But when a company so big gets it so wrong, it's time to put aside lingering affections and move on. Thanks for the good times. Thanks for the fish. Long Live Flickr.
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making notes just posted in flickr central:
One thing I noticed was a checkbox that allows you to say you don't want a Yahoo! Mail account. However, even when I had this option turned off, the "congratulations!" page (what is it with Yahoo! and exclamation marks?) still said "your Yahoo! Mail account is:" followed by the email address. That's not right!
given that apparently all sorts of horrors befall your ID if you don't check a yahoo mail address, could someone from flickr staff please clarify whether you must have an e-mail address or can opt out of it?
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am i going to be able to keep my username even though i have to create a lame yahoo id? i hate yahoo. if i liked it, i would be using it, but i hate it. i already have 10 email accounts, i don't need another one. and i don't IM people, so this switch is pretty ridiculous.
just tell me if i'll still be able to keep thehoneybunny. i don't want to have to change all my links everywhere. for sure.
*grumble*
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I'll have more to say/ask later on, but for now:
1) In my experience with Yahoo!, I've had to re-sign-in on a daily basis and when going from service to service (ie: My Yahoo! to Yahoo! Mail to Yahoo! Movies). This frustration has plagued me for years, and frankly, It's a major reason why I don't use Yahoo! as often as I used to. Will this be the case with Flickr after I merge? Or will my sessions remain as stable as they are today?
2) I had a second question, but I found it answered in the FAQ:
I was wondering if Flickr accounts would be -permanently- associated with the yahoo account, or if we will be able to move the Flickr account from one Yahoo account to another?
According to the FAQ: You can't switch yet, but eventually. And it's planned for before the deadline.
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I have a friend who's trying to migrate his account. Can somebody help me to get his account migrated? His name is Shi Tao.
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flickrthrope: good riddance! bye bye! seeya!
A Public Challenge to the Rest of you Whiners:
If you're going to leave Flickr on the 15th, why not just do it right now? If you're ACTUALLY SERIOUS, then post a message in this forum with a link to your photos page, and then go to your account page and DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT.
Otherwise, shut up!
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The single most annoying thing about the Yayhoo signin is the fact they won't let your browser save your password. The second most annoying thing is how often the signin page times out. Complete rubbish.
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When the change was announced, I merged a newly created Yahoo account with my Flickr account -- and had it unmerged soon afterwards.
Quoting from the Sign-in FAQ:
To protect your Yahoo! ID from misuse, Yahoo! automatically signs you off after a certain number of hours. You can modify this preference in your Yahoo! preferences.
Actually, the choice is between 15 minutes and 14 days. Or rather between up to 26 and up to 35040 Yahoo logins per year.
Happily, my account expires in April.
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¡IMPORTANT! This is NOT true: "...when you create a yahooID now, they automatically create a yahoo mail address, which you have to sign into every so often to keep it active. And if you don't keep your YahooID active, they delete it and then your Flickr account is orphaned."
You can create a Flickr account with a Yahoo! ID or merge two existing ones and never, ever in your life look at mail.yahoo.com while still using Flickr any time you please. Whether or not you use Yahoo! Mail has no bearing on your Flickr account.
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Um, yo, mrpotato1972... clue in, please. I was invited here by Flickr to make comments about the process. That's what me and everyone else is doing here. That's what this space is for, whether it sounds to you like whining or not.
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After merging, log out of Flickr and Yahoo!, then sign back in with "remember me on this computer " checked: the Flickr cookie will sign you in until you delete it, with no need to sign in again.
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My wife and I currently share our flickr account. Can we each use our own ID to access our flickr account? Or will we have to share 1 yahoo ID?
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I just saw Stewart and Caterina a couple of days ago. Had I known this was coming, i would have fallen to my knees to beg. I like being Old Skool.
Please reconsider!
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Will there be a way to reassociate my Flickr account with a different Yahoo account? Mine's currently got a stupid Yahoo address which is going to be an utter pain to login with every day.
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Ah. Thank you, Stewart. That doesn't solve every complaint and issue, but that does take a big, immediate concern off the table. Thanks.
@Mr. Potato Brain: Yes, we know some people (like you) are perfectly happy to bend over and take it in the backside from Yahoo's "privacy" statement and marketing projects. If you're happy to take it, good for you. Most people don't enjoy Yahoo's special way of violating their users.
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Whether or not you use Yahoo! Mail has no bearing on your Flickr account.
thanks for clarifying, Stewart.
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Will there be a way to reassociate my Flickr account with a different Yahoo account?
Yes. We're building that tool. I don' thave an eta, but sooner rather than later.
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Re "presents" for people who switched: this was discussed extensively but I vetoed it, so you're welcome to blame me :)
The reason was: it didn't make sense hand out awards for people who signed up one day earlier than someone else whose used a Y!ID all along, and neither did it make sense to reward people for not switching in the 18 months since we originally started this. Not because you're not all wonderful people, but because so is everyone else, and it just seemed unfair.
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taking a stab at answering other people questions:
thehoneybunny: just tell me if i'll still be able to keep thehoneybunny. i don't want to have to change all my links everywhere.
As far as Flickr is concerned, the only change here is what you type to log in. There won't be any changes to usernames or URLs, so 'thehoneybunny' and all your links can stay
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We dont want the yahoo thingy :(
Is it really necessary? I\'m using my Email since 1998 n am used to it I also enter my email like 99%! I never used the Yahoo mail!! Cuz I have no one or nothing to do with it! Plz replay soon because lately flcikr is changing lot of it features which were great! Also this site is blocked here in the UAE and I still log in from a different proxy cuz I rally like flickr!
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aqui-ali mentions earlier the single thing that bothers me about the merge.
If one links one's flickr stuff to an essentially inactive yahoo account just for login purposes, and for whatever reason that yahoo account goes kablooie, it seems like one loses everything one had in flickr. It would be good if such an "orphaned" flickr account were preserved somehow until matters can be fixed... and if this were the explicit policy mentioned in the FAQ, not deletion.
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I have not merged my accounts up til now by choice... Mainly cause I can't stand Yahoo...
I cringed back when Yahoo bought Flickr, but thought, 'Hey they promise it's going to be cool now that they have more dev money'...
I am seriously going to have to reconsider if I want to keep my paid membership at this point...
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Not happy about this.
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Re "presents" for people who switched: this was discussed extensively but I vetoed it, so you're welcome to blame me :)
uh .. did anyone in this thread ask for presents in return for switching?
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I (we, actually) have 3 Yahoo e-mail addresses: 1 common e-mail address which we intend to associate with our flickr account, 1 for myself, and 1 for my spouse. Will I still be logged into our flickr account if I log into my e-mail which is not associated with the flickr account? I get the sense from this conversation and the FAQ that I have to always be logged into the associated Yahoo account to be logged into my flickr account. Can anybody verify if that is true? If so, this is a MAJOR problem for people with more than 1 yahoo account but only 1 flickr account.
Posted 17 months ago.
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Back to deviantART.com, I think. I really hate dA, but not as much as I hate Yahoo's password paranoia. (Besides that, like bwalsh, I actually have a Yahoo ID but it is already tied to a different flickr account which I only used for testing, so currently I couldn't merge even if I wanted to.) It's only a pity that I'll have to forfeit 5 months of "pro" status.
Btw., to clarify the Yahoo mail vs. no mail confusion — you are forced to create a Yahoo mailbox if you sign up with yahoo.com, but you can still opt out of Yahoo mail on yahoo.co.uk. Sign up today, maybe they'll remove that option tomorrow. Har, har, har.
Stewart says:
After merging, log out of Flickr and Yahoo!, then sign back in with "remember me on this computer " checked: the Flickr cookie will sign you in until you delete it, with no need to sign in again.
But I don't want a sign-in cookie on my computer. That is insecure, for example if someone snatches my laptop while I'm on the train. I want my password securely saved in my browser's encrypted password wallet file, together with all my other passwords, protected by a single master password.
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Does this mean that I lose my "old skool" Terms Of Use? Or does that remain after I merge (assuming I do)?
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I have a yahoo account, and it is already merged with a non-primary flickr account. Now I have to have two new yahoo accounts, that's not the login name I like, to continue using my flickr accounts?
This sucks.
With this and the 3000 contact limit, that's it for me and flickr I think.
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Stewart, thanks for clearing that up about the Yahoo mail thing. I thought I remembered a help topic from someone who hadn't logged in to to their Yahoo! mail for some time and it had been deactivated, and they couldn't get to their flickr account. Maybe I'm remembering wrong... I'll have to search and see if I can find it.
Anyway, it's nice to know we don't have to worry about that.
One other question though - just out of curiosity - about old skool accounts where the account owner died but their photostream is still here? Will those eventually be deleted?
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uh .. did anyone in this thread ask for presents in return for switching?
Yeah, elllipse did.
Oh wait, this isn't FlickrCentral...
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There are at least two good reasons for this change (says this old skool member). First, the Flickr staff will have less code / login systems they have to maintain. and second, they can simplify the user interface for the login page, which will probably result less user confusion about which page to use.
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ptufts edited this topic 17 months ago.
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not interested in yahoo anything. Didn't sign onto flickr for yahoo. Fine, you have business deal with them - and I am made to feel like some kind of renegade, running around outside of the corporate mind-control machines. Good. I think I will wait till the very last possible day as well
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