::gripe::

[akujunkan]

I've been hearing a lot about an online photo host called flickr recently, so I decided to check it out. It looked pretty cool, so I began signing up yesterday. My computer crashes fairly frequently, and I didn't finish the sign up process with the username I wanted.

I went back to finish today and discovered that lo, flickr is now a yahoo company. One needs a yahoo id to use it. I do not want my yahoo id associated with my online file storage. Furthermore, the username I wanted for flickr is most likely someone else's yahoo id. I will therefore not be using flickr. What a pain in the butt.

That will be all.

Comments

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Hehe talk about quick change - now it's not yahoo *blink* now it is!! I use photobucket myself, and they are very handy for uploading to lj too - maybe give them a peek.

P.S. I got the beta and will read it this afternoon when a certain small and noisy bear is napping ;-)

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Problem is, I already have a PB account and I've exhausted my hosting space with it. They only allow one account per user, too, so I'm having to shop around to other hosts. One wonders what was done to the account names of flickr holders whose logins were the same as a different yahoo user's login.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Ah! I didn't realize you were already photobucket-ed. DH's reunion class just set up a bunch of pictures at smugmug.com and that seemed nice, although I haven't really used it myself to say for sure how good they are.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

i don't think you actually need a yahoo account for flickr, but you do need an email account. plus, you can change your profile/privacy settings to change your username or hide email.

i've only begun to use flickr. it's easy and has alot of cool features that can be used with almost every online thing i've seen...like posting directly to livejournal or a blog...or creating photo groups or communities.

(^_^) give it a try again.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

oh...i just saw that aug 15 date change with the yahoo merge info....oh well.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I know! Bummer huh. If only I'd just rebooted my computer yesterday and finished it... The thing is, I don't want Yahoo connecting my email address with my photo album with the groups I'm on with the auctions I buy, with my ISP and so on. I strongly dislike large companies that collect masses of data on all levels of a person's life.

(But I'm just paranoid like that.)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Great icon! Where's the image of Wild from?

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

the artbook. it's the picture where he's standing next to blood...and he is wearing that white non-dress...and his name is spelled 'wird'

[(Anonymous)]

Is it? I don't need to use my yahoo id to access it... but I signed up a while ago. Did it become a yahoo company in the space of a day?

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Yup. As of yesterday, in fact. ::grumble::