For an unknown reason (I can only suspect my criticism for their deal with Microsoft) the guys at Yahoo deleted my flickr account. At first, I thought it was not such a big deal, since I was looking for an alternative anyway (I like flickr as a gallery but I don’t want to deal with Microsoft) and right after the account deletion the photos embedded in various web pages were still visible.
A few days later, those are gone… this photoblog is ruined, my other (main) blog has a few broken articles, a number of pages which used my photos under the CC-BY-SA license are broken as well.
For this blog, I probably have to dig into the photo archive, put the files on my static site and repair about 200 posts. A big and ugly work. For 3-rd party sites, I can’t to anything, as I have no idea who and how used the photos (that’s the reason of freedom).
Lesson learned: do not rely on external services for critical applications (ups! this blog is hosted also on a 3-rd party service, hopefully a more trustworthy one).
Yahoo, I hope you get cancer and die. You deserve it.
so the very best photos of a great photgrapher were deleted, our memory still remains.
However yahoo still provide a very good job, delivering yahoo mail and messenger.
Keep going on , we have good apreciation on you.
Maybe you will try wordpress or blogspot.com
Well, they didn’t delete the sources, I still have the originals archived and doing a slow work to repair this blog (which is powered by blogspot, BTW). After that will have to find a gallery replacement (most likely self-hosted) and will restart posting. Already a lot of photos are waiting for this…
But this does not make the Yahoo guys any less bastards for deleting without even a warning.
And Yahoo is doing a poor job with email (compare it with gmail!!!) and IM.
Yahoo, I hope you get cancer and die..I liked this part! ha This was very funny..
I am sorry for all that work you have to put up with now, to repair the damages..
C
I am near April 2009 with the restoration work… hopefully next week will finish it.
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