That's what I'm hoping. Although I doubt that IA, on it's own, would suddenly go to Flickr & say "Hey our use case doesn't really fit what you intended, let's f

That's what I'm hoping. Although I doubt that IA, on it's own, would suddenly go to Flickr & say "Hey our use case doesn't really fit what you intended, let's figure out how to go our separate ways." My guess is that the conversation was initiated by Flickr. Whether IA agreed with them from the beginning or was forced to "agree" probably doesn't matter, especially because I can see the merit of the argument that Flickr may not be an appropriate platform. I'm just hoping things were save in a way that they'll be able to implement a replacement at some point.