SmugMug Buys Yahoo's Flickr Image Hosting Site

by: Chicago48

I expect monthly fees to be installed for Flickr too.  I have a flickr account, love it, but won't pay for it.

These various pay to play sites have to realize that the consumer only has so much money.  I use AMZ's prime video to (pay for) and watch movies & TV shows.  I buy the packaged TV shows on Showtime/FX, etc.  Along comes Hulu and they want to charge 7.99 a month; then there's CBS stream charging 6.99 a month to see their shows; then there's HBO now, and the list goes on and on.  It's worse than having cable subscription.  If all the photo sites that I use charged to play, I would  have to drop from the internet.

On another topic:  Does net neutrality end today?

by: zenbreeze

UGH.  Spent a fun morning over this.  I deleted my yahoo account years ago.  or so I thought.  I got the email about smugmug.  I check.  My Flickr account was never deleted as promised.  However, I can no longer access my yahoo account. I can log in, then I get a message the account was closed.  Yes, I know that.  And I know yahoo was supposed to delete the account AND flickr.  It then tells me I can create a new account and transfer the information. I try that.  No way I can see to "transfer information".  So I delete the new account and sent a DM to Yahoo on twitter, having failed to find any way to contact customer service.  This bites.  All I want to do is remove my information.

by: RKTOYS

Just a suggestion.

It costs $12/year to register a domain and hosting services can be had for as little as $5/month.  The CPanel software many hosting services use even has drag and drop for image uploads.

Now you, not some pushy "service," has control of your images.  You decide what content is allowable.  You decide what sizes are acceptable.  You decide to whether or not to enable remote linking.  You decide what gets deleted (for real) and when.  And, best of all, no data-mining or advertisements or spam.

by: Sierra

I never really got into Flickr, but did use it some. Haven't used it AT ALL since Pinterest came along, so decided it was time for it to go.

I've spent about an hour so far trying to delete my Flickr account. The first one I logged into (didn't even remember that I had 2 Flickrs!) was one that I used rarely. But I got into it easily, deleted my pics, then deleted the account.

Then I tried to get into the other Yahoo account (the one I remember using), but I only had a vague idea of the User ID (it's one of 2 and neither worked with the various passwords I tried), so I tried to recover both it and the password. I ended up at an AT&T page which asked for my AT&T cell number or account number. I no longer have AT&T cell service, so I don't have the cell number or account number they're requesting. I don't know why AT&T is asking for this info ... when did they merge with Yahoo???

Messaged AT&T thru FB and the first CSR asked for my email address. I told them about the 2 possible ones and that it was an SBCglobal address that I was told I could keep forever and access thru Yahoo. Received a reply from a 2nd CSR asking for the FULL email address. Um, well, if it was with SBCglobal, then it was xxxxxx@SBCglobal.net, right??? Clueless CSR! So I typed both possible addresses out and am waiting for their next reply.