If M$ buys Yahoo/Flickr

[rhomsy]

If M$ bus Yahoo, then I fear the M$ blight will swallow up Flickr. Just look at what happened to hotmail after it was acquired by M$. It's become an Outhouse web clone.

Are some of you guys planning on migrating away from Flickr if M$ buys Yahoo!? If so, where do we go?

 

[ghostguts]

Flickr isn't going anywhere. Stop worrying. Go take some photos.

 

[termina3]

Go to SmugMug, if you're that worried. They've tried to get things pretty seamless for flickr émigrés.

 

[Westside guy]

I'm paid w/ Flickr through 2009, so I figure I'll have a pretty good idea whether MS decides to ruin it before the time comes to renew.

I'm a bit concerned that MS will start tieing in a bunch of stuff with iView/Expressions Media, so that some features will only work with that software. But I can't imagine that actually working, since it's not like they've got any significant user marketshare to leverage in this case. So I guess it's just wait and see...

BTW I am guessing you (the OP) are a free Flickr user, not a paid member? It'd help if you'd clarify, because there are plenty of paid alternatives.

 

[dukebound85]

for the love of humanity stop typing M$ lol

 

[jbernie]

Nothing more to worry about.... they called off the bid so no transaction will occur.

Now we can wait and see if the shareholders sue them for not accepting.

 

[disdat]

Just in case, create an account over at ipernity. Very flickr-like.