Please let me know if you have any more issues with the app. Once you approve it, this app holds a token from Flickr so that this app and Flickr can mutually authenticate each other every time you use it. It tells Flickr that this app wants to request access to your account, and you have to explicitly approve it on Flickr's website. When it finds your username / email address, it forwards you to the Flickr website with what's called a Frob. The app doesn't need a password to login it doesn't use that kind of authentication. Once you allow third-party apps to interact with your Flickr account, it should be able to find your username or email address (I show you how to find your username in your Flickr account settings in the same post). Please reference the following blog post for common issues: What's most likely happening is that you need to change the permissions in your Flickr account so that third-party apps can interact with your account. Yahoo, the Verizon-owned entity that was once an Internet giant helped in popularising its service like web-based email but went on to lose influence after being hit by a massive data breach that affected almost three billion accounts.įlickr has meanwhile extended the February 5 deadline to March 12 for free accounts to download pictures it starts deleting them if they exceed 1,000.įlicker last year had announced a new pricing plan in which users were made to pay $50 for the Pro membership or stay limited to 1,000 photographs.I have a post on my blog about common issue with this app. This happens to be a welcome change for Flicker users that didn't like the login system which was introduced in 2007, two years after Yahoo acquired the website. In an effort to improve performance and reliability, SmugMug also has been moving data from Yahoo's data centres to Amazon Web Services computing foundation". This was a move that was most requested by its users.Īccording to a CNET report on Monday, "It's been difficult for Flickr's new owner, SmugMug, to step away from Yahoo. Follow us on Image Source : TWITTER/FLICKRįlickr frees its login system from Yahoo, after more than 10 yearsįlickr, the photo-sharing website has finally gotten rid of Yahoo's old login system after over 10 years.
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