Thanks to Diane at Flickr Support, my ancient Flickr account is now migrated back out of Yahoo! While I’m not sure what was wrong with the online migration tool, she was able to switch things over on the back-end within 9 business hours (PDT)1 of my email, in spite of the reported high ... www.ardisson.org

@smokey Nice!

@tgray Yes, I was pleasantly surprised and impressed; as I searched around last week to see if anyone else had run into the migration problem I had and knew a fix, I read many horror stories about Flickr support never replying to support emails beginning after last month’s migration from Yahoo servers.

Reading my post again, I’m not sure “25 business hours” is the right term/number exactly, either; it was really only 9 (9-to-5, M-F, assuming PDT) business hours. And Diane apologized for the delay in responding (due to the volume)!

@vasta @smokey Definitely the former, Sameer. This was one of the big promises made by SmugMug at the beginning of the year, to eventually rip all of Yahoo out of Flickr. Even now the Sign up page has been put into maintenance and redirected to identity.flickr.com so it looks promisingly like new accounts will soon be available without any Yahoo nonsense at all.

@vasta As @simonwoods deduced, it’s the former. I had a Flickr account that predated the Yahoo!ification of Flickr and was finally successfully able to migrate back to accessing it without my Yahoo account.

They initially said they’d notify you by email when it was your turn to migrate, and I know some Micronauts were in the early batches; I hadn’t heard anyone mention it in a while, so I logged in and was greeted with a banner noting migration would soon be mandatory and suggested I do it, so I did/tried (it would never advance beyond the “set a new password” step, no matter what new password I suggested).

@vasta I never got an e-mail, but like @smokey ’s experience, the suggestion just popped up one day when trying to log in. AFAIR, no issues for me except rejiggering 1Password logins.

@vasta Huh, I’d have figured you would have been in the first batch in that case, assuming they started with the oldest accounts and not some alphabetical or random order.

I just checked, and the last email I got from Flickr was in January (though there had been a series of emails before that), and the login migration was announced by blog in March. The post makes no mention of how they’d let you know when your account was ready for login migration; I think I assumed it would be by email since they had been emailing regularly in late 2018 and Jan 2019. I’m guessing the banner after logging in is the only way of notifying that your account is ready…. // @seishonagon

(No idea why the migraton hung up for me, but I tried 5 browsers across 3 OSes and they all failed in the exact same way….)

@smokey hmm I need to check mine I think I migrated I want to. But my biggest issue is the macOS upload app stopped working with Photos a while back (Apple changed a security thing according to Flickr) and so I have to manually upload every so often as my iPhone seems to never finishing check deduplication/ upload, probably due to using iCloud photos (a lot of them)

@vasta I never got an email either. I think I just logged out one day and logged back in and was presented with an option.

@vasta Oh, that’s awful. Surely they do not believe that the email we’ve chosen today will necessarily be valid for the rest of our lives!? But, indeed, I see no way of changing it in the account settings anywhere, either :-( That seems like a terrible oversight in the design of any email-keyed authentication (and notification) system. Hopefully Support can help you out….

@adamprocter I remember from a few months ago you mentioning the app breaking; that’s no fun.

I never used my account much (had no digital camera back then, and got my own domain not too long after joining), so I don’t have many photos there, but I am thinking about sharing some of my better ones there from time-to-time, but probably just one-offs….

@vasta

Have had my account since GNE days

And that explains the occasional “GNE” in Flickr URLs; I’d always wondered about that…

@smokey Flickr with that uploader especially became and is to some degree another back up, if i had more time to dedicate to it I would CC open up many more of my image (though maybe not this one as much now ! 😂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File... www.flickr.com/photos/pr... the crying emoji is not powerful enough mind) but for now I want to make sure all photos are there at least and its way to manual for now for me

@vasta Hooray for Flickr Support :-) Even if everything isn’t working right yet on the site itself, it is reassuring that the support team is responsive and helpful.

@smokey I’d love to start sharing photos on Flickr and view other people’s work. I was going to suggest creating a group over at Flickr, but then I’m not sure how that would mesh with sunlit and m.b. Maybe I’ll just cross post to Flickr ...

@seishonagon Yeah, I’ve had both my blog and my Flickr account for ages and rarely posted photos to either of them…until the ease that the M.b iOS app provided got me posting photos to my blog. And Flickr doesn’t have that, plus its norms/culture/atmosphere are different from the photo-norms here/on one’s own blog. So I’m less likely to often share there (and, with the whole “own your content, on your site” philosophy, would mostly “cross-post” photos that I’ve blogged, I think.)

I know we do have some folks who are active Flickr users, though, and in the spirit of enhancing Micro-communities, I wonder if it wouldn’t be useful to make a post floating a trial balloon and seeing if there is interest in a Flickr group of Micro.blog folks?

@smokey @seishonagon there is already a Flickr group Micro.blog @ Flickr~ | Flickr set up by @jemostrom FWIW I like Flickr for the organisation of photos:albums, tags ect; the geo data and the licensing. And the way you can get at that stuff to display or manipulation.

@johnjohnston @smokey @jemostrom The group seems to be admined by @jacksonoftrades. Requests to join through the app and website threw errors, so I’ve just messaged him. I also like Flickr’s tools for albums etc. Hopefully SmugMug will start treating it properly!

@johnjohnston

@smokey @seishonagon there is already a Flickr group Micro.blog @ Flickr~ | Flickr set up by @jemostrom

Oh, nice; I will add that to the list of Micro.communities when I get to that part of the wiki renovations…

@seishonagon @johnjohnston @smokey yep, I didn’t create the group but I add a photo now and then. And I also like Flickr ... especially when it’s run by Smugmug. Well, soon time to go and capture a few more photos.

@vasta @seishonagon @johnjohnston @smokey as far as I know, there are no rules. Post what you feel comfortable posting

@vasta @jemostrom @johnjohnston @smokey for me the point was mostly to get a loose list of people to follow on Flickr - I like a lot of things on the platform, but there are not enough people I know to get interesting stuff to browse ...

@seishonagon The old discovery problem rears its head anew ;-)

@vasta I see it is indeed a pool photo, er Photo Pool 😂

@seishonagon I just tried via the web and I got a little web-modal in which to type a message, and when I view the group now, it says “Join Requested”…. The larger problem seems to be that @jacksonoftrades hasn’t been active here in a while :-( Hopefully notifications from somewhere are getting to him.

@smokey @smokey Don't worry, Flickr sends me a join request email every time (Except for the weird case of @seishonagon). I also occasionally check this place every now and then, even if I don't update my blog :).

@smokey I’ve had issues with pop up windows. I am have overdone the whole “privacy / security” thing on my browsers.

@smokey it’s like sourdough bread, really. You need a starter culture, and then you spread it from social network to social network, rebuild a nest for yourself...

@JacksonOfTrades Ah, good; thanks! :-) (I thought I’d seen someone ping you with an @-mention here without a reply in the past month or so, but maybe I’m confusing things…)