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Wow, that guy is completely self-absorbed. Yahoo has been paying attention to Flickr all along, Mr. Spiering insisted, and has made a lot of improvements since

Wow, that guy is completely self-absorbed. Yahoo has been paying attention to Flickr all along, Mr. Spiering insisted, and has made a lot of improvements since it bought the site in 2005. As a paying Flickr customer for several years, I can say that no, Yahoo has not been "paying attention" to Flickr. At least, not in a way that is meaningful to any one other than the product manager. He pointed out that the photo page was redesigned as recently as the summer of 2010 ... started integrating Flickr across its products ... Yahoo weather app ... integrated into Yahoo Mail soon... Wow. None of that means anything to me at all. Flickr hasn't improved in any meaningful way, in terms of my end-user needs, in as long as I've been using it. A few painfully obvious examples are: 1) give me multiple photostreams. Seriously, my eBay photos go into the same stream as my carefully selected landscape photos? 2) Give me an uploader that doesn't consume massive resources and error-out regularly.

duxup 15y ago
I agree. Flickr has been left to rot for years. The photo sharing space is funky where every service seems to be a bit wonky while flickr has just sat there. Managing your stream and etc should be obvious options. In fact I find flickr often raises more questions than answers when using the service. The up-loader isn't the worst problem but it is the most baffling issue. I can't remember the last time I had problems uploading anything anywhere on the net except ages ago during the eairly days of the internet, and on flickr today.
Terretta 15y ago
Out of curiosity why not use a free acct for eBay photos? You get 200 shown in the photostream and the photo links keep working beyond that...
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  Last time I checked, you can't have high-res images on a free account. Also, I would never consider creating an additional account just to work around a really dumb limitation of their software. It's not like it wrecks my life, I just think it's a ridiculous example of how they've just stagnated for years.
spullara 15y ago
Since using Flickr for hosting your eBay photos is likely against a strict reading of the terms of service, I'm not surprised they aren't considering it -- especially if you are hot linking to them.
- georgieporgie 15y ago
  Pretty sad, if that's the case. It sure as heck isn't worth $25/year to host my family snapshots.

duxup 15y ago

I agree. Flickr has been left to rot for years. The photo sharing space is funky where every service seems to be a bit wonky while flickr has just sat there. Managing your stream and etc should be obvious options. In fact I find flickr often raises more questions than answers when using the service. The up-loader isn't the worst problem but it is the most baffling issue. I can't remember the last time I had problems uploading anything anywhere on the net except ages ago during the eairly days of the internet, and on flickr today.

Terretta 15y ago

Out of curiosity why not use a free acct for eBay photos? You get 200 shown in the photostream and the photo links keep working beyond that...

georgieporgie 15y ago
Last time I checked, you can't have high-res images on a free account. Also, I would never consider creating an additional account just to work around a really dumb limitation of their software. It's not like it wrecks my life, I just think it's a ridiculous example of how they've just stagnated for years.

spullara 15y ago

Since using Flickr for hosting your eBay photos is likely against a strict reading of the terms of service, I'm not surprised they aren't considering it -- especially if you are hot linking to them.

georgieporgie 15y ago
Pretty sad, if that's the case. It sure as heck isn't worth $25/year to host my family snapshots.