This is (kind of) one of the reasons that I don't use third party services to sign in to anything. I'd rather have an email+password option and use a password manager (I'm aware that most people probably don't do this and Flickr isn't offering this).<p>If/when users do as Flickr is asking, I wonder if Yahoo will redirect them to use Yahoo Mail etc. In any case, I'm not a flickr user anymore but it would be interesting to know how smooth they've made this process.
This is really annoying and not the direction I hope internet companies will move toward.<p>What we need is to be able to login to facebook/yahoo/whatever with google account and vice versa of course; we need to see the idea of OpenID come alive.
I predict this will be a trend soon, also people are going to ditch services like disqus. Big websites want to have total control over their client account and comments. This is not really clever to always trust third parties, especially with comments which are a huge part of the SEO.
I think that is a good move on Yahoo's part.<p>They may lose some Flickr users but this should strengthen Yahoo's walled garden.<p>I still like Flickr, where I post my very best pictures. I use Google+ and Dropbox to automatically archive every picture and video I take with my smartphone, but use Flickr to actually look at my new and old photos.
That's a pretty bold move, given over 100k people a day/800k a month use the facebook auth alone[1]. and though looks like its on a bit of a decline. Maybe losing 100k users a day doesn't matter much to yahoo.<p>[1]<a href="https://factets.com/application/flickr-AQkvRaEJ" rel="nofollow">https://factets.com/application/flickr-AQkvRaEJ</a>
We're obviously not all in agreement about how identity should work online (let alone how it works offline), which is kind of a big problem considering identity is something every single one of us automatically has from birth. We may never agree on it, but we may at least mostly agree on it one day (outliers never go away).<p>In the meantime, I'm okay with some level of fluctuation in the practice of online identities, since it indicates some level of (at least attempted) innovation, and trial-and-error at the internet level is never really that bad of a thing.<p>So yeah, this would probably be annoying for a while. But let's see how it pans out.
I've had my flickr account since before they were acquired by yahoo. That, combined with yahoo's crappy user sign-in experience, means that my flickr account, yahoo account, and some other junk account I accidentally created while trying to log in once 5 years ago, are now all conflated. To this day it's still not completely worked out.
If they are going to remove anything it should be the purple bar at the top of the screen. The layers of navigation remind me of someone with all the toolbars installed on their browser. I've used Flickr for years, but unless they step up the design of the site I'll be searching elsewhere to showcase my photography.
I used to be a huge proponent to single click sign in, in theory it's great. The problem I found with my own startup was that by allowing Twitter, Facebook or Google+ sign in, it was a point of confusion for the user. The amount of duplicate, even triple accounts was far higher that what I would have expected.<p>After reviewing the pros and cons, I switched to a simple email/password combination which also solved another problem of having to ask the user for their email address.<p>There really is a need for a true single sign in provider, in which you link your identity accounts to one 'super' account and then sign in with that, allowing whatever information is available from each as you wish, or simply a blank profile with only your identifier to link back to you.
Again?!<p>I really hope they don't f* up it again, like the time when Yang-era Yahoo! bought Flickr, forced you to get an Yahoo-ID and then deleted it after 6 months of inactivity, effectively locking you out of your own photos. That was great.
I wish they would keep it, since I really don't want another account to log into just to use the site, but I admit they handle it a lot better than Hacker News did with this transition page. With Hacker News the Google login and whatnot just disappeared one day and I lost my account and had to start over.
The account creation page (for those who like me used Flickr without a Yahoo account) is a mess – for any account name I tried entering, it said that an account with the same name already exists.
Finally managed to create my Yahoo account somewhere else in the settings.