Flickr Contact Limits - 3000 is still too many!
Am I the only one who is tired of hearing all the supposedly old skool, Flickr users moaning about having to associate their account with a Yahoo ID and with the new limit on contacts to 3000 this week?
The account issue is, for me a non-issue. I had an old account id. As soon as yahoo allowed you to associate a yahoo id with a flickr account, before I was even made aware that there was some prestiege to an old style id, I merged them. One less account id and password to remember as far as I was concerned.
What did you expect when Yahoo bought Flickr? Nothing stays the same, especially in the internet environment. If you want to stay, then get a Yahoo Id; if you're leaving could you do it a bit more quietly please? They told us months ago that this was happening - you've had plenty of time to move to Zoomer already.
As for the limit of 3000 contacts, I say reduce it further to 500 or less. Who can keep track of more than 3000 contacts? I can't keep up with what my 150 contacts are doing. If your an uber-popular, A-list flickerite you don't have to reciprocate every newbie who adds you as a contact, unless you're trying to guarantee that every picture you post gets a million views and automatically goes to the top of Flickr Explorer. If someone adds me as a Flickr contact I don't blindly reciprocate; I actually go and view a few pages of their stream and see if they are doing anything interesting. If I go to their profile and they already have a thousand contacts I figure they don't really need me as a contact but that they're trying to game the system so I don't reciprocate even if their work is outstanding (I'm English - we hate the favorite but love the underdog). If a contact hasn't posted anything for a couple of months, unless they're my brother, I have no problem with removing them from my contacts. How can you practically manage 3000 contacts?
I don't buy the reciprocal contact as ticket to private photo stream either. Flickr is not a private club and that's the point. Either make the pictures public, just show them to your real (not virtual) family and friends, or set up a porn site.
Flickr is an internet citizen's privilege, not a right. If you don't like their rules then build an alternative.
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And 3000 contact limit??? Jeez... that is just ridiculous. I don't do the auto-reciprocal add as a contact either. That is just plain silly. I've got about 150 contacts right now, but some of them are infrequent posters. I too have enough trouble keeping up with them all as it is!
I'm with you on the contacts thing, though.