Yahoo!’s best service is going down - Yahoo! Photos
Yahoo! is going to drop the number 1 photo site on the web, Yahoo! Photos, for support of a site that many people don’t want to use, Flickr, for the very reasons that Yahoo! Photos is so popular. Yahoo! Photos has a gorgeous interface and unlimited hi-res photo storage for free. What the heck else could you want. Do you want some external validation that your photos are great or suck - then by all means use Flickr. I personally think it is the dumbest thing since the pet rock.
To quote a commenter from the TechCrunch article:
Has Yahoo mentioned whether or not they will be allowing free users of Flickr to store unlimited number of photos and unlimited albums (not the current 200 photos). If not, then this move will surely alienate a huge number of Yahoo users. I do love Flickr - it’s interface and features are incredibly more useful and user friendly than Yahoo Photos. However, I still used Yahoo Photos as an easy and free way to store all my original-resolution photos online for anyone to see. If Yahoo doesn’t bring this ability to its free Flickr accounts, then the only major service left that allows free full-resolution storage of an unlimited number of photos will be AOL Pictures, and that thought really scares me. Please, Yahoo, make it right - give free Flickr users the abilities you’ve given to free Yahoo Photos users until now.
AOL - is that really what you people want! Damn this decision and damn all the narrow minded people who can’t think beyond their own situation to think that Flickr is not the end-all be-all of photo applications.
