The Internet Needs to Take Some Meds
February 2nd, 2007For the life of me, I do not understand the uproar over the flickr/Yahoo! account changes.
What is the big deal? Does anybody have a valid reason for being upset besides something that makes one sound like a 3 year-old? o
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February 4th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
I agree, I can’t understand the level of outrage. The only argument I can understand is people not wanting to be associated with Yahoo! because of their opinion on Yahoo’s alleged help in human rights violations in China. But if that was the case, they should have left 18 months ago after Flickr was bought out. Everything else seems to be a minor inconvenience at best. I merged awhile ago, and I have been completely ignoring my Yahoo mail for years, no problems. I know these online communities are important to people, and I love Flickr, but I sometimes wonder how these same people react when something truly important happens in their actual lives and communities. Do they have the same passion and vitriol? Perhaps they do.
February 5th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
I stayed Old Skool for as long as possible — even though I already had a Yahoo! account that I use regularly for other stuff — mainly because I wasn’t convinced something bad wouldn’t happen if I switched. I switched this weekend, and so far, nothing bad has happened.
Looking at it as a software engineer, I can totally understand why Flickr is doing this. *I* wouldn’t want to be the one to have to maintain two codepaths going forward. I already have to do this in a bunch of places in the codebase I work in now, and it’s a royal pain.
February 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for this post Mr. Blurb. I made a light joke about it on the official “old skool merge” thread over at Flickr and was immediately called a “troll”.
I’m glad there are sane people like you left in the world.
February 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am
I have two flickr accounts so it was a bit of a pain for me to have to set up two yahoo email accounts in order to log in. It would be nice if they could tie more than one flickr address to one email address. But once it was done it was done.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Amen! What’s the big deal? I get tired of the internet being a giant whinefest at times…