Flickr Alternative?

[spikeh]

Is there anything as good as Flickr out there? I'm fucked if I'm signing up for a Y! ID, so I'm looking for an alternative to Flickr. I like the clean URL structure Flickr has, mainly.

TIA.

Edit: Is Zoomr (http://beta.zooomr.com/home) any good? A lot of people have suggested it.

[chucker]

I'm fucked if I'm signing up for a Y! ID

Why?

Zooomr and Smugmug are the two big competitors, AIUI. Oh, and mentioning "photobucket" is officially banned from this thread. :)

I guess I can't think of any good reason that speaks against merging the Flickr and Yahoo! accounts. Other people don't see what Yahoo! account you use to log in with Flickr; it's neither in your URL nor anywhere in your profile.

[PKIDelirium]

Photobucket.

[intlplby]

yeah, Photobucket

[atomicbartbeans]

Basic picture hosting: http://www.tinypic.com

Something more comprehensive: http://www.zoomr.com

I don't see what you have against getting a Yahoo ID though... it has very little to do with Flickr itself

[spikeh]

Basic picture hosting: http://www.tinypic.com

Something more comprehensive: http://www.zoomr.com

I don't see what you have against getting a Yahoo ID though... it has very little to do with Flickr itself

I've got a lot against it. Why should Yahoo have my details? Why should I have to sign up for a second account for something I've already signed up for? I already have enough logins as it is. I doubt I'll be able to get an easy to remember login (it'll be something like spikeo23980238). It adds nothing to my Flickr experience. Yahoo! IDs are ropey by all accounts. I detest the fact that I already have a Google Account and a .NET passport already in regular use. Adding to this isn't a priority right now. I'd rather not give companies like Google and Yahoo my personal information. The main axe-grind everyone has with it is that it isn't stopping anything from working - and if they hadn't been taken over by Yahoo!, they wouldn't be initiating this process. Think about it: what on earth do I or anyone gain from having a Yahoo! ID to sign into Flickr? What was so inadequate about their old login system? Answer: Nothing.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look at zooomr I think.

[Windowsrookie]

All they ask for is your age, name and zip code. Is that really that big of a problem?

I use the same name and password on all my accounts (MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Google)

[PKIDelirium]

*Hacks WR's accounts and goes to log in on every site and cause chaos*

[Windowsrookie]

If you want to read my emails that bad go ahead. :)

[Wyatt]

I've got a lot against it. Why should Yahoo have my details? Why should I have to sign up for a second account for something I've already signed up for? I already have enough logins as it is. I doubt I'll be able to get an easy to remember login (it'll be something like spikeo23980238). It adds nothing to my Flickr experience. Yahoo! IDs are ropey by all accounts. I detest the fact that I already have a Google Account and a .NET passport already in regular use. Adding to this isn't a priority right now. I'd rather not give companies like Google and Yahoo my personal information. The main axe-grind everyone has with it is that it isn't stopping anything from working - and if they hadn't been taken over by Yahoo!, they wouldn't be initiating this process. Think about it: what on earth do I or anyone gain from having a Yahoo! ID to sign into Flickr? What was so inadequate about their old login system? Answer: Nothing.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look at zooomr I think.
Yahoo owns Flickr. They already have your information anyway. I don't understand why you don't want to give it to them again.

You're right about you not gaining anything. It's not for you. It's for Yahoo to integrate all their services. For people who use multiple services from them, this is a good thing. For people who don't, it's annoying at most.

I don't get what the big deal is about this. (Not just you, either. I've heard a lot of grumbling about this.)

[chucker]

It's for Yahoo to integrate all their services. For people who use multiple services from them, this is a good thing. For people who don't, it's annoying at most.

I don't want to play the Flickr/Yahoo! apologist, but it's not even that: it was the Flickr team that made this decision, not the Yahoo! management. Again: it was Flickr who decided to phase out their own authentication system. For a simple reason, too: for Yahoo!'s authentication, there's a dedicated, large team with years upon years of experience that they can go to, while they themselves can concentrate on the stuff they actually care about: the photo management.

What was so inadequate about their old login system?

How about the fact that they designed it for themselves, at a small, inexperienced company, never expecting anything remotely like Flickr's success, and now they don't want to be stuck with it and make compromises for it whenever they roll out a new feature?

[Barto]

The big deal is that we are Old Skool members and when the switch over happens, we'll just be regular members. Also signing up for a Yahoo ID is a pain and I don't want yet another login.

Edit - I'm going to stay with Flickr because it's where everyone else (my contacts, groups, AppleNova members) are and as far as I can tell, it's the best photo sharing site on the internet. I'm still pissed off.

[chucker]

The big deal is that we are Old Skool members and when the switch over happens, we'll just be regular members.

I'm an Old Skool member. I was going to move to the Y!ID immediately, since I already had a Y! account anyway. There was one single reason I didn't: my Y!ID happens to suck. I don't know why I made that stupid choice back in the day, and unfortunately, I cannot change it either (at least that's what I gather from Y!'s FAQs), but in reality, it doesn't matter; certainly not for Flickr, since it's visible nowhere in Flickr's UI. The Flickr login ID wasn't, and neither is the Y!ID. So nobody else sees my name anyway, so it doesn't matter, and I merged.

*shrug* I don't see the big deal, sorry.

There's a chance we'll get some special badge for being Old Skool; I think someone from the Flickr team said they're considering that.

[spikeh]

The big deal is that we are Old Skool members and when the switch over happens, we'll just be regular members. Also signing up for a Yahoo ID is a pain and I don't want yet another login.

Edit - I'm going to stay with Flickr because it's where everyone else (my contacts, groups, AppleNova members) are and as far as I can tell, it's the best photo sharing site on the internet. I'm still pissed off.

That's not what I care about - I don't mind being the same as the cretins who joined with Yahoo! accounts. I care about the fact that I'm being forced to sign up for something twice, when there's nothing wrong with the existing method of signing in. Whatever folks here say about them being inexperienced or the login system being naff, there's nothing to indicate that as a motivating factor AFAIK. If you guys want to sign up for things multiple times and merge accounts and change passwords, etc, then that's up to you. I for one don't particularly like the hassle.

[chucker]

Uh.

The Flickr Old Skool -> Y!/Flickr choice: you sign up for Flickr, put your photos up, then sign up for or merge with Yahoo. Sign-ups? Two. Photo upload batches? One.
The Flickr Old Skool -> competitor choice: you sign up for Flickr, put your photos up, then sign up for the competitor, and put your photos up again. Sign-ups? Two. Photo upload batches? Two.

And you prefer the latter? Does not compute.

[spikeh]

Uh.

The Flickr Old Skool -> Y!/Flickr choice: you sign up for Flickr, put your photos up, then sign up for or merge with Yahoo. Sign-ups? Two. Photo upload batches? One.
The Flickr Old Skool -> competitor choice: you sign up for Flickr, put your photos up, then sign up for the competitor, and put your photos up again. Sign-ups? Two. Photo upload batches? Two.

And you prefer the latter? Does not compute.

No - I'm going to have to sign-up for another account somewhere anyway. So there's one sign-up happening. I'm not going to be using Flickr anymore, if I find an alternative, so there won't be two photo uploads, there will be one big one accommodating all of my old photos and any new ones. Easy peasy.


There's a chance we'll get some special badge for being Old Skool; I think someone from the Flickr team said they're considering that.

I don't see it happening. One of the (weak) reasons they cited for the entire charade is that the two 'factions' cause friction, somehow, so they are eliminating the difference.

[Wyatt]

No - I'm going to have to sign-up for another account somewhere anyway. So there's one sign-up happening. I'm not going to be using Flickr anymore, if I find an alternative, so there won't be two photo uploads, there will be one big one accommodating all of my old photos and any new ones. Easy peasy.

I think you misread chucker's post. He meant that you would have to re-upload everything you have on flickr right now, not that you'd continue usuing flickr in addition to whatever new service you sign up for.

[murbot]

You could have set up 5 new accounts there in the time it has taken you to grind your vagina sand all over my monitor with this thread.

:lol:

[spikeh]

I think you misread chucker's post. He meant that you would have to re-upload everything you have on flickr right now, not that you'd continue usuing flickr in addition to whatever new service you sign up for.

Ah. Well from my perspective it'd probably be a lot easier to do the former - all my photos go into my iPhoto library anyway. It'll just be a case of uploading them all, rather than selecting only new ones. I think it all boils down to personal preference. I don't think I should have to do this sort of thing twice. I don't think there is enough reason for me to do it, and I don't like being forced to do it by a deadline. Holy shit! I'm an average consumer anywhere in the world!

You could have set up 5 new accounts there in the time it has taken you to grind your vagina sand all over my monitor with this thread.

:lol:

True. This was more fun and less effort though :D

[joveblue]

Picasa Web Albums? (I haven't tried it, dunno if it's any good) There's a program you can download that plugs into iPhoto or something to upload pics...

[Wyatt]

You could have set up 5 new accounts there in the time it has taken you to grind your vagina sand all over my monitor with this thread.

:lol:
:lol: Wow, leave it to murbot to put a thread into perspective. :D

[Partial]

I've got a lot against it. Why should Yahoo have my details? Why should I have to sign up for a second account for something I've already signed up for? I already have enough logins as it is. I doubt I'll be able to get an easy to remember login (it'll be something like spikeo23980238). It adds nothing to my Flickr experience. Yahoo! IDs are ropey by all accounts. I detest the fact that I already have a Google Account and a .NET passport already in regular use. Adding to this isn't a priority right now. I'd rather not give companies like Google and Yahoo my personal information. The main axe-grind everyone has with it is that it isn't stopping anything from working - and if they hadn't been taken over by Yahoo!, they wouldn't be initiating this process. Think about it: what on earth do I or anyone gain from having a Yahoo! ID to sign into Flickr? What was so inadequate about their old login system? Answer: Nothing.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look at zooomr I think.


Make up a fake name?

[omem]

I'd recommend http://www.23hq.com/

[Schnauzer]

yeah, Photobucket


yup, Photobucket

[chucker]

Boy, you people have low standards. ;)