Flickr user? Old Skool Flickr user who’s been with them for a long time? This morning, then, you’ll probably have been faced with a big glaring ugly splash screen like this:

The people at Flickr probably have heard this, but in case not: boys, that’s a big oops. It’s bossy, ugly, and offers no value to people.

It offers me Yahoo services, but I am not going to buy Yahoo services. Nothing on offer from Yahoo makes me better or helps me communicate with others – apart from YahooGroups maillists of which I am subscribed to many, and which used to be Egroups before Yahoo bought them out.

Beware, Flickr, lest you become YahooPhotos2.0…

Plus I am not the only person who dislikes this first step towards Yahoo!Lobotomization: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Since I will see no benefit from this changeover process, I decided to remove any benefit from them; I already have a YahooID but what they are looking for is to link the existing one to my Flickr account (demographics, services) so instead I decided to float an new YahooID.

I’ve done this before, so I know the drill – birthday January 1st 1970 (the same as Unix, I actually know someone who was born on that day) and I live in the USA in Beverley Hills 90210 – incidentally Yahoo, the United Kingdom typically is sorted with “U” rather than directly under China :-

The result is pleasingly annoying:

…and somehow you can tell that their Woohoo! is this case somehow forced; I get access to My Flickr once more – not Their Flickr, not Yahoo’s Flickr – and the motions have been gone through to the net benefit of nobody at all.

A little tragic pointlessness, really. Very corporate and not Web2.0 at all.