Goodbye, Yahoo! (& instructions on how to export/backup your photos from Flickr)
Backup your photos from your Flickr account to your own computer using the flickrdownload tool and migrate your photos to Wordpress using the Flickr to WP plugin.
Flickr
4 Jan 2012
Since reading the news that Yahoo! have hired PayPal's president, I no longer want anything to do with them.
The only things I had left on my 12-year-old Yahoo! account were a few contacts from the days I used Messenger and email and the photos on my Flickr account. I exported the former easily and I'm in the process of backing up the photos and their metadata from Flickr now.
After neglecting my Flickr account for several years, I thought I'd upgrade to Pro again and upload the photos that we commissioned from the talented Victoria Dawe from Friday's hugely fun Geek Ninja Battle Night.
So, to upload the 140 or so photos, I downloaded Flickr's desktop uploading app, Flickr Uploadr and dragged my set of photos in. Upon dragging them in, I realized that they were in the wrong order. They were listed in reverse chronological order, which the last taken photo at the top and the first one at the bottom of the window. In the top-left corner of the app, I saw a message telling me that they were "currently ordered by date taken" and that I could drag and drop if I wanted to re-order them.
Flickr Uploadr UX Failr (or UX is About the Little Things)
Talk about being a bad communicator. If Flickr Uploadr had been a person, I would have said he was having a laugh with me.
