Posts by sdustbin 3 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2009
Hmm, yes that would be a worrying turn of events, the thing I like about flickr though is that has a decent community, full size photo capabilities and an excellent organiser and interface, so I'm loathe to go elsewhere, it's just a shame these things* keep getting foisted on an otherwise excellent, clean and easy to use site... (not counting porn-spamming, but I've not seen evidence of this in the groups I'm in)
I also like it because it's huge community allows me to get feedback on my work and ideas for future shoots, whereas most sites are for posting holiday pics and ebay pictures that are of a rubbish quality, have no community or are laden with ads... (eg. photobucket or fakebore(facebook)).
*these things being Flickr Video, Yahoo and the now rumoured Microsoft hideousness...
I was also annoyed when my BT Internet email became BT Yahoo and they moved my email over to what is effectively a Yahoo account without the ads.
I don't mind it too much as they have a nice webmail interface, but it would have been nice to be able to say sod-off I'll keep my POP3 non yahoo account thanks... if they had kept it separate it wouldn't be possible for yahoo's vulnerability to affect the safety of my email account! (although the password is suitably high-strength, so it should withstand a brute-force attack for quite some time hopefully).
As for the flickr logo, yes I think it's an eyesore too... but frankly, I had more annoying things on my mind when I saw it, it does ruin the style of the flickr homepage though.
(I can't complain too much though, as it was the BTInternet -->BTYahoo change that gave me free flickr in the first place! :) )
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