Oh wow, this is a bummer. Flickr has really been instrumental in making the web 2.0 model of a clean, well-designed, and rapidly evolving service. Without the founders, we'll be left to Yahoo's devices. Do Not Want. - Steve Isaacs
SmugMug is a great, more professional, alternative to Flickr. - Louis Gray
Wasn't Caterina running Brickhouse? What is the fate of that little bubble of innovation there? - felix
I hope that Yahoo doesn't do anything to mess with Flickr. Do I need to start thinking about extracting my photo collection out of Flickr? I really hope not. Flickr is an important part of my workflow. I just renewed my account yesterday. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Louis: but what about the community? It's the thing that makes Flickr great. - Ole Begemann
@Begemann agreed. Flickr - Community = :( - Pat Hawks
My Pro renewal is due in September......make a stay/leave call then perhaps? - David Peacock
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Yahoo = titanic... And am I one of the few who actually prefer Picasa to Flickr? - Chris Reed
I imported all of my photos from Flickr to SmugMug a month or two ago. Better. There's a Firefox extension that will manage the import. - Jack Baty
I'm not crazy about Flickr, but I like using kflickr for uploads, plus it is easy and does what I need. I've considered Picasa though. I have next to nothing in Flickr anyway. - Jake (aka Jawee)
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Before I jump on the Yahoo is dead bandwagon, what were these two doing with Flickr? Were they actively developing? - Bwana McCall
Yahoo stock price when they sold to Yahoo, about $37 a share. Yahoo stock price now, $23.25, hopefully their sale to Yahoo was for as little restricted locked up stock as possible. About a 40% stock price decline in 3 years, during which time Terry Semel was the highest paid CEO in America and Jerry Yang turns down multiple premium offers from MSFT. Amazing. - Thomas Hawk
@All Will TC add FF-comments plugin one day? : ) - Erhan Erdogan
This doesn't bode well, and I have multiple Pro accounts. What to do? Maybe spin it off on its own? - Glenn Batuyong
it sucks that the founding visionaries are leaving, and i'm definitely fearful for yahoo, but isn't this a bit dramatic? i'm curious what the founders think - are they giving up on their baby, would they not use it any more, do they think its going to die or are they leaving it in good hands? we all have so much invested in flickr, with its thousands of photos stored - it seems harder to replace than a facebook over myspace type. - Kevin
I'd hate to think that the only reason people were using Flickr was because of who the founders were. The other sites are good, have tried Zooomr, Ipernity and Smugmug but still come back to Flickr for the whole package. - Stuart Forsyth
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Kevin: you're probably right. Stewart Butterfield said in the thread on FlickrCentral: "None of Heather, Cal, Eric or George (and definitely not Serguei) would want my job (it sucked!). But Kakul really is awesome, and any of the five abovementioned would back up my claim on the TC post that having Kakul in charge is better than having me." And community members have backed him up. - Ole Begemann
I really, really doubt that Flickr is going to implode because if this. I'm actually surprised that these two stuck around as long as long as they did. They are start-up people after all. It kills me how everybody wants to jump from one service to another at the drop of a hat. - Mike Doeff
@Mike - I'm sure they wanted to wait until they were fully vested, or they signed an agreement to stay several years. And when you say "jump from one service to another" do you mean the users or startup employees? - Jason Kaneshiro
Mike D:totally agreed. Kind of silly isn't it. Thomas Edison long gone but we don't worry about light bulbs...or do we? :D - Mark Forman
Jason, I was referring to the users, not the startup employees. The Web 2.0 crowd can be a very fickle bunch. I admit that I try out a lot of services and don't always stick with them (beta-itis) but once I find one that I like, it takes a hell of a lot for me to drop it. I really think that users need to show some loyalty, even when the services that they are using go through some rough spots. - Mike Doeff
Flickr jumped the shark at video. I was prefectly happy with it and never woudl have needed a new feature before that. If the founders are somehow related to Flickr's feature backlog, I wish they would've gotten out of there already... - Wade Dorrell
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For everyone who is lighting their hair on fire and in a panic about what to do now that Flickr is going down the toilet Duncan Riley has come to the rescue... http://www.inquisitr.com/1095/... - Mike Doeff
www.ipernity.com - Nobody seems to know about the site with the closest Flickr functionality. - Stuart Forsyth
It was always going to happen. I don't think it will have much effect on the site, other than make the old school users have a wee look at the alternatives. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
@Chris Nixon - I thought all the "Old School" users left when Yahoo took over and they had to sign up for a Yahoo ID? ;-) - cmiper
@cmiper They were never going back. Then they did. Then video happened. So they quit. Then they came back again. Now this! Seriosly though, as with the best social sites, Flickr is not about who runs it, it's about who uses it. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
