Flickr merging old logins with Yahoo ID
When I logged into my Flickr account today, I noticed a new message from flickr telling me to associate my account with a Yahoo ID. Of course I don’t have a Yahoo ID, at least I didn’t 10 minutes ago when I wasn’t required to get a new login for my flickr account.
This will piss a lot of people off. I’m not mad, just annoyed. I like keeping the logins I have to remember to a bare minimum. I never use Yahoo, but since Yahoo owns flickr I guess I do now. Below is a comment from an old skool flickr user. You can read more remarks like the one below Here
I’m sure that the Flickr staff love their creation. But they love the big fat check that Yahoo gave to them much more. They didn’t make Flickr as a labor of love, they made it hit the startup lottery (which they did, admirably I might add). That doesn’t mean that they don’t care about their creation, but don’t kid yourselves into thinking that because you helped build it by being early adopters and advocates that they really care about you. This is clearly about money; saving money on maintenance, and making money off of advertising.
My name is Noah Everett. I live in Tulsa, OK. I started 
Honestly I think a lot of those people are babies and need to get over it. It really is not that big of a deal.
BOO! Not cool. To me, having a Flickr login was both a sign of Early Adopter and a claim to Flickr Statehood, and I liked that. Now we’re forced to sign in under the Yahoo banner?
It’s a bit like being born into an island under your own flag, only to have to subject to a larger, more power powerful country ’s flag after years of pressure and conflict. (Let’s call this island “Mireland” and the big country “Bingland,” for example.)
I understand the reasoning, and I’d probably make the same decision if I was in Yahoo’s position, but since I’m not, I can complain.
Whatever capitalist goals Flicker’s original owners were pursuing, their creation has become a sort of “culture of photo sharing” while Yahoo! is about “sharing as little as possible of whatever”… and “slapping as many pay-per-click” links as the visitor can digest, kind of approach.
Money, especially big money, makes strange bedfellows appear even stranger! Hail the “old” login…