Once more into the breach Flickrites, everybody over me!

nobody@vox.com(Threepwood) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:44:26 +1100

So "Monkey Boy" has had a brain fart and now wants to buy Yahoo. Unfortunately he's forgotten that this will require him to deal with Flickr, the Flickr-verse and it's inhabitants the Flickr-ites who, in traditional form have taken a deep breath and gone right off their fucking heads. Here is the first of what will no doubt be many demonstration groups and if history is a true judge the gnashing of teeth and hand ringing in the forums will be deafening.
And I've got to admit to a wry smile as the course of events is fairly predictable, indignant outrage, followed by much of the aformentioned gnashing and wringing and then we get the wonderful quotes, "That's it I want my money back" and "I'm cancelling my account, farewell cruel flickr-verse". It's all happened before, Flickr got sold to Yahoo, the population seethed but survived, Yahoo changed some stuff, the Flickr-ites lost their collective minds but survived and now it's happening again. The melodrama is going to be fabulous but the community will carry on, and hey, if it doesn't there are heaps of alternative. I cant wait to see what happens next!

Still, these are some mighty creative people and it's well worth popping over to have a look at the photo's, some really funny stuff on show. My all-time-fave a LOL-Ballmer.

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Once more into the breach Flickrites, everybody over me!