Flickr to require Yahoo! accounts on March 15th

Filed under: Photo, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software

Flickr to require Yahoo! accounts on March 15th

by Chris Price Jan 31st 2007

The last time Flickr tried this there was such a backlash that they supported both the old Flickr IDs and corporate overlord ones. But that was then, and this is now...
The Flickr News blog just announced that as of March 15th, the only access to your Flickr account will be via a Yahoo! ID. So, the last holdouts in denial of the acquisition will either have to quit the service or link to a Yahoo! ID. This official thread has been created to voice your concerns \ questions to the Flickr staff and community.

We're told that this change is in preparation for some large projects later this year (ohhh - anyone have any ideas??). We've seen this requirement already with the recent updates to Flickr Mobile and Yahoo! Go that only allow Yahoo! accounts.

The same post also mentions the addition of a couple of limits:

Maximum number of Contacts will be 3000
Maximum number of Tags per picture will be 75

These changes are pitched to improve system performance. Flickr has started an official thread for any comments about the limit changes.

Tags: contacts, flickr, limits, logon, tags, yahoo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kevjohn said 1:19PM on 1-31-2007

As it was once told to Caesar: Beware the Ides of March.

Godzilla said 1:59PM on 1-31-2007

Just when you thought everything was going pear shaped, someone comes along with an openid solution:

http://idproxy.net

aedmark said 2:42PM on 1-31-2007

I'll never understand why people get so upset about having a Yahoo account. Big deal. People will sign up for endless "Consumer Testing" product scams, but they can't sign up for a legit service through a respectable company.

Oh man, people will complain about anything.

Matt said 6:06AM on 2-01-2007

I've held out until now because I gathered many of the 3rd party tools which make Flicker so great are dependent on the "old-school" logins. I may be mistaken, and anyway, it's a done deal now. I'll be switching later today.

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