Respect your founding community members
Comments: 1 - Date: February 2nd, 2007 - Categories: In The News, Social Tools
This article on arstechnica discusses a backlash that Flickr is facing from its original members. Early users of Flickr are being forced to abandon their Flickr account names and switch over to Yahoo account names. I totally understand why this is annoying. Early Flickr users have cooler names and have much higher credibility on the site than some random yahoo user. Give them some sort of “founder badge” so they can continue to strut their stuff on the site.
It is Friday evening so I can’t think of anything more to say. But it is an interesting and not very long article.
Comment by Jake - 2 February 2007 @ 10:51 pm
Actually, their Flickr nicknames won’t change, just the ID they use to log in with. I recently merged my account, and I haven’t noticed any differences beyond the different log-in page. And no one’s any wiser. AFAIK, there’s no way to tell an “Old Skool” user from everyone else.