The photo-sharing website Flickr has announced that it no more will have the same old Yahoo’s login system. After a long decade, the company has finally decided on dumping the tedious feature that none of its users is interested in using.
In 2007, Yahoo had acquired Flickr, and only after two years of the acquisition, the company installed a Yahoo login for Flickr. In the pre-Instagram era, Flickr was at the top of the all photo sharing websites, but the users always complained about the Yahoo login system, as nobody used their Yahoo mail Id otherwise and often used to forget the passwords.
In April 2018, SmugMug acquired Flickr, and since then it has been working on the new login system for the Flickr users. Even due to the massive data breach it faced, which affected its three billion users, badly, Flickr was receiving the requests for a new and secure login system.
As of now, Flickr might not be as influential as it used to be, but still, there are many loyal Flickr users that are continuously posting and sharing pictures on the platform. So the new login system is the biggest news for them, and the platform can expect more user engagement in the future.
Also, Flickr has extended the dates for its free account users to download the pictures, now rescheduled to March 12 from Feb 5. Last year, the company had announced new plans for the users, in which the users with premium accounts would pay a $50 as the monthly charge, and the ones with free accounts will only be able to download 1000 photographs from the platform.
“We hope you love this new, simpler login experience,” Flickr said in a statement. “We’re still hard at work on performance and stability improvements across the site, but we’re delighted to check this key item off our members’ wish lists.”
The new login system is still under the process until then the users need to use the same Yahoo account for Flickr. But as soon the new login system comes into effect the users will have to register themselves with a new account and password on Flickr.
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