Any Abrs Currently Use Flickr?

[Matheous-2]

Currently, I find Flickr slightly worrying as at the drop of a hat or click of your mouse Yahoo (who I think run the show) takes you along the path of a new account which,of course has none of your photos....I would dearly like to shed Yahoo Mail, but can't risk losing my Flickr account. Can't seem to be able to check my account details anymore or make changes.
Would appreciate any suggestions or perhaps an equivalent free picture sharing storage site?
Thanks in anticipation....

[bvlensk]

You could try one of the alternatives from this List of Photo Sharing Sites:
http://l-lists.com/en/lists/ndr9ye.html

I recommend that you save backups. There is no guarantee that a photo sharing site would stay around, and there is no guarantee that a photo sharing site that is leaving would give and adequate amount of time for users to download their photos (or provide them with convenient tools to do so). The prime example is WebShots. They closed despite being one of the most popular photo sharing websites.

[bvlensk]

I'll expand on my previous answer:

Yes it is Yahoo that own Flickr. Yahoo have a history of destroying valued web content. They destroyed Geocities after they bought it, and it was due to the efforts of a small number of dedicated web archivists that part (but not all) of it was saved.

Yahoo simply didn't care that they were destroying the internet's equivalent of historical relics. Many of the world's oldest webpages were on Geocities. Those destroyed webpages would have given future historians a greater insight into the early to mid 1990s, and how people first used the WWW.

So, if you don't want your photos to be lost, use multiple photo storage options e.g. photo sharing sites, image hosting sites, file storage sites, your own hard drive, and memory sticks.

[Matheous-2]

Thanks bvlensk.....I have been thinking lately that I should go down the memory stick route as I recently tried to open some CDs and data DVDs which would not load as the Mac OS has since moved on from the 'classic' period and left people like me on the lurch!
The thing too is that the USB system could easily too 'move on' to USB 4 or something and make previous USB 2 obsolete ! So it would seem to be a wise thing to use online storage as extra backup....