Marissa Mayer's gone from yahoo/flickr!

[Ranchu]

Let the rejoicing begin! Take the oaf!

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-03/marissa-mayer-out-combined-aol-yahoo-company-called-oath

 

[Archiver]

Boom! Even though I don't drink, I'll drink to that.

Unfortunately, she will likely get a ludicrously lucrative payout. Apparently, she will get a $55 million dollar payout if she is terminated without cause within a year of Yahoo's sale. Then again, there were reports that she was going to quit after Verizon's takeover. It remains to be seen what her payout figure will be.

 

[dmr]

I hope they don't re-badge Yahoo and Flickr as OATH! 🙁 🙁 (Gag_Me!) Major downgrade!

 

[emraphoto]

Wow, I will never again doubt the woman in my life when they speak of the misogyny and gender bias they face daily, after reading the comments section of that article.

 

[DominikDUK]

@emra +100 to your comment but you don't have to read the article and its comments to find misogyny and gender bias. The posting on some photo forums are not much better in that regard.

I also liked Mayer she was not perfect but she wasn't as bad as some make her out to be. What she was was severly hampered by a certain yahoo stock owner who constantly fought any of her decision be they good or bad. If she had been a man the stock owner wouldn't have acted this way.

 

[Ranchu]

Yeah guys, those are very good excuses for destroying a beautiful thing in such a godawful manner. Now we're going to go around in circles about how it wasn't that good, or some random participant likes it better now, yawn. The fact is, whether she has a vagina or not, whether some stock dork questioned her, she totally ****ed up the best photo sharing site there was, that millions of people loved, so that now it sucks and nobody goes there.

Awww. So sexist now, right?

🙄

 

[benlees]

Yeah guys, those are very good excuses for destroying a beautiful thing in such a godawful manner. Now we're going to go around in circles about how it wasn't that good, or some random participant likes it better now, yawn. The fact is, whether she has a vagina or not, whether some stock dork questioned her, she totally ****ed up the best photo sharing site there was, that millions of people loved, so that now it sucks and nobody goes there.

Awww. So sexist now, right?

🙄

They were referring to the comments from your link. People of every variety can do a crappy job. We all get that.

 

[Ranchu]

The zerohedge comments section is a sewer, always has been. The article itself is anodyne.

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

Women do bad jobs, men do bad jobs, women do good jobs, men do good jobs, but somehow we vilify one entire group when someone from that group does poorly, and act as though they are an exception when they do well.

Any man who did EXACTLY what she did would have been treated much differently.

My issue with her wasn't flickr, but her saying she was "a working mom and understood how hard it was" while having a full nursery built on her office with staff to help.

With the way instagram has exploded, I have to say that i really do miss what flickr once was.

 

[Ranchu]

No one here is vilifying an entire group, just Mayer, who sucks @ss. The way flickr is now is entirely her responsibility.

What is this 'soft sexism of low expectations' shtick? Sounds like excuse making and nothing else to me.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Yahoo and Flickr are for mature people. Yahoo is the place were old style folks talks and it was rusty for sometime already. But Flickr was great and conservative in the way it was working. Like working nice and simple and this is it. No FB like crap, no Instagram crap and no unlimited storage which is reason for crashes. If it is fault of "working mommy" with what Flickr has become for no reason, booting her was good desision.

 

[Archiver]

I loved flickr as it was, with the ability to see descriptions below each image as they appeared in my stream. In my own images, I often include something informative about the image I've shot, the location or even a bit of history. There are a large number of other flickr users who do the same, some using flickr like their blog. The decisions Marissa Mayer made regarding flickr's design and storage stripped it of a lot of the usefulness it once had. Gender aside, her decisions about flickr and Yahoo in general (who the heck throws a $7 million dollar NYE office party??) were just bad. And she will sail into the sunset with a multimillion dollar payout.

 

[newfilm]

(who the heck throws a $7 million dollar NYE office party??) were just bad. And she will sail into the sunset with a multimillion dollar payout.

I dont know, I'm just jealous that I'm not getting paid by screwing up (user who once enjoy its service, and employee who was "let go") as many of these CEOs did 🙁

 

[tunalegs]

I think people give Mayer too much credit for the changes at flickr. It's not like she designed the new look herself. Flickr had been stagnant and withering for years, so she decided it needed to be changed. So it got changed.

Unfortunately, they threw out a lot of good design for bad design, pushed the whole thing on users before they had done any trouble shooting, or even it seems figured out even vaguely what they were aiming to accomplish with the changes. And while it may have been changed at Mayer's instigation, the fault for that whole sh!tshow lies squarely on the shoulders of the flickr staff.

But that's over with, so far as I can see. Flickr works as well now as it did before the "upgrade" and in some ways it's better (unlimited uploads). Even though I pretty much ignored the site for about a year after the initial changes, I'm using it again as much as I used to.

 

[roscoetuff]

As my business partner and I have always said, "We'll work for half the price of any other CEO and take half the golden parachute in half the time. And you can move on to the next screwball ...no questions asked. Only want three months? You got it!"

 

[traveler_101]

Any man who did EXACTLY what she did would have been treated much differently.

Yeah, he would have been fired much sooner.