Flyckr alternatives

lxmike

lxmike

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flyckr has signed me out, l cannot log back in, does not recognise password or indeed l do not know what email is linked with my flyckr account, very fed up with yahoo, so are there any alternatives, what do other people use,
 
I had the same thing happen with a flickr account I started about ten years ago. I couldn't for the life of me remember what email I used let alone remember my password so I just created another account. Flickr has it's critics but I've yet to find a photo hosting site I like better.
 
tom.w.bn said:
Don't you keep some sort of mail-history? If so, you could search for "flickr" and if you find an old mail, you should see the mail address you used.
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I think from memory it was set up with yahoo's email system ... which was a horror and I bailed out of it very soon after. It was no loss ... the images were pretty ordinary. Since starting another account a couple of years ago I have edited much more selectively.
 
Curious about this brouhaha, I logged out of my Flickr account. Sure enough, I could not get back in.

Then I read the instructions carefully and realized they are asking me to log in to Yahoo with my Flickr ID. Doing so got me into Flickr without an additional login step.

I guess they are going to a single-signon approach, which makes sense.

John
 
johnwolf said:
Curious about this brouhaha, I logged out of my Flickr account. Sure enough, I could not get back in.

Then I read the instructions carefully and realized they are asking me to log in to Yahoo with my Flickr ID. Doing so got me into Flickr without an additional login step.

I guess they are going to a single-signon approach, which makes sense.

John
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The log-in to Flickr has been integrated through Yahoo for a few years. My log-in problems began when this override was implemented.

FWIW the latest problems that people have been experiencing seem to be a combination of a massive number of intersecting issues. For instance, I realized that my last log-in to Flickr had been on a laptop that I'd since retired and replaced with a new machine. I went down to the cellar and retrieved it, and when I'd got it started-up and the browser running again I could log into my account on the first try.

Nothing I'd done on my current browser had worked - including clearing all session caches, cookies or even masking IPs had made any difference.

In any case, I could then see the tens of messages sent to the Flickr-connected ymail (which I never used) saying that someone had attempted to access my account from an unknown computer - that was ME.

The real problem is this: the notifications give you no possibility of actually enabling access from this other computer. On the Flickr forum there are quite a few people with the same problem.

I have no idea why they implemented this amateurish and stupid 'security' model. I've been able to switch computers before, but not this time apparently. And according to one of the members 'helping' on the forum, the only thing to do is somehow hope that a member of staff will fix the problem for me - if they see my forum post... No member of staff has actually participated in that thread since last week though, so I guess I'll just need to use my old laptop if I want to upload anything to Flickr.

If Yahoo simply implemented an intelligent way to either report these bugs, or let users fix the problems for themselves, they'd save enormous amounts of time, iteratively improve their software, and also gain a lot of user goodwill.
 
back alley said:
go here and tell your story...they fixed me up in no time!

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=yahoo customer care
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Back alley - if you scroll through the Flickr Facebook stream you can see dozens of people begging for help with log-in problems. I think the time when they addressed these issues is on hold for now - I'm guessing the maintenance and dev team that remain are hanging tight until they know what's happening to their jobs
 
mani said:
Back alley - if you scroll through the Flickr Facebook stream you can see dozens of people begging for help with log-in problems. I think the time when they addressed these issues is on hold for now - I'm guessing the maintenance and dev team that remain are hanging tight until they know what's happening to their jobs
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that may be true...but that site fixed my problems after almost a full year of aggravation and frustration...
 
lxmike said:
does anyone use photobucket
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I had used photobucket before flickr. Never have had problem with flickr because my default email is yahoo.mail and therefore I never forgot my flickr log in. Photobucket has been my horrostory. when I tried to log in again after a while having been 'dormant' I had to find out that in the meantime photobucket had become part of hotmail, so it seemed, or was it just that hotmail was the email account I had used to register, anyway my member name could not be used to log in any more. Had though it got 'lost', in the end got back in, first had needed to 'restore' my old hotmail account, then my photobucket account.
Hardly have been using it, correct me, but as much as I remember the free account is quite ad and pop up ridden and limited.
 
tom.w.bn said:
You want to say they are doing nothing while they get paid? Only because the situation is not clear? I don't expect them to work with 100% enthusiasm but they should do the minimum that is necessary.
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I'm really not trying to be combative - I'm just judging by the total lack of responses even in the 'official' staff-initiated Flickr thread on the problem since last week. There you can even see heart-breaking appeals from elderly people who really seem to rely on the service to keep in touch with family - totally ignored.

Anyway I'm done with the problem for now. I like Flickr. I've got no more axes to grind other than my abhorrence for Yahoo - from bitter experience.

I hope everyone sorts their problems. Definitely as back alley says, writing on FB can't do any harm and may sort the problems.
 
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