Flickr founders leave

Wow, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield left. I don’t know why that’s a wow really, but it’s sad. I was one of those very early flickr users when I was active on metafilter. We used to go in there and chat (yes, flickr used to have live chat!) and trade images etc. It was fun. Caterina and Stewart were much more active when the site was small. Actually it probably just seemed that way, as they don’t scale well.

Anyway, through all the yahoo crap during the buyout, and even the account renaming fiasco I always kinda knew, well at least they are still there so nothing terrible will happen. Not anymore. I still think it’s the best photo sharing site, but I no longer have any loyalty or trust. I guess yahoo would rather fizzle into nothing than be bought by microsoft.