Comments on: Microsoft: Threat or savior for Flickr?

Microsoft may mess things up for Flickr, but Yahoo hasn't been so great, either.

[lmasanti]

We can consider HotMail experience in evaluating the future of "YahSoft" (idea of an Ars Technica's commenter).

[gerrrg]

I think I prefer "Microhoo!"

[SteveCherry]

If they do Flickr the same courtesy that Yahoo did for MusicMatch Jukebox, well, we can kiss that love affair buh-bye. The 'lobotomization' of MusicMatch was heartbreaking but not unpredictable given the history of big fish wanting so desperately to stamp their mark upon cool products that were made by the little fish.

Steve Cherry
www.DailyFrame.com

[shohom67]

C/Net guy: I have a group on Flickr that I hold dear to my heart. I'm a member of a dozen more groups on Flickr -- all dear to my heart as well. The beauty of Flickr is the simplicity of it's basic user-interface. Don't like that? Thanks to Flickr's ever growing multitude of API's you can add watermarks, make a photo-id for your dog, not to mention the awesome PicLens app which allows you to view a page full of photos in a beautifully rendered full screen slide show. The choices are mine, how simple or complex my Flickr experience is.

Microsoft: You're welcome to Yahoo -- just leave our Flickr alone. Don't 'fix it', don't 'improve it', don't even look at it cross-eyed! If you must do something, make it an option - not the rule -- or we're going to lose a lot of good Flickr friends who aren't intimidated by the current Flickr, but will surely be by whatever you do to it. Just leave our Flickr alone!

Yahoo: Sellout now and retire! We're all sick of your gorilla tactics! If I want to download Yahoo Instant Messenger to IM with my cousin -- don't: a) forcible change my default search engine to Yahoo search -- which could be only be undone by uninstalling all other Yahoo apps! b) don't forcible download your Yahoo Browser Bar -- which won't turn off unless uninstalled! c) make me have an email account in order to have an Instant Messenger user name! I hate your gorilla tactics -- so I use Meebo...