Old Skool no more
2007-02-01 10:44 by Peter Asquith —
So, yesterday, I buried my Old Skool Flickr identity and “merged” it with my Yahoo! account. I’d put off doing the meld on other occasions when the Yahoo! corporate machine made noises but this time there was a deadline, so I decided to bow.
Despite the obvious benefits of a unified ID (and if you’ve ever been involved with developing and maintaining on-line applications you’ll know what I mean), I still felt a little part of me fall off its perch and go to join the choir invisible. Flickr has become an important part of my life and, since I publish many of my photographs there, a part of my identity.
The Old Skool Flickr was a young upstart showing what could be done with the Web, with its own quirky way of doing things. Then it was subsumed into the Yahoo! corporation but there was still a core of the personality that made Flickr so attractive in the first place. I’m pretty confident that as long as Stewart and Caterina are in the mix there will always be a bit of that Ludicorp spirit, however, a chapter has come to an end; an identity has been homogenised.
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Was it just me or was the entire merging process a main in the butt.
I already had another Yahoo account, Which I didn’t want to use. SO had to get another one. Okay I go to sign in flickr.. bingo can’t sign in via the new YAHOO interface as it doesn’t take long passwords (over 64 characters). Reset the password, that worked okay, after three confirmations. Then go through the sign up… urgg that was pain. And then discover yeap Yahoo doesn’t like long secure passwords. What should have taken 10 minutes (max) was a 30 minute affair. It didn’t make yahoo my favorites I can tell you.