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.
ReplyDeleteHowever 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...
ReplyDeleteBut 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..
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDelete