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rant in A flat
Dec. 8th, 2005 12:37 amSo flickr uses Yahoo's login system. For various reasons (I couldn't remember my password, and wanted to get the browser to supply it again), I logged out for the first time in a very long time, figuring I could use the password reset or something if worst came to worst.
Nope. Yahoo are _so_ retarded that you can't do that. Instead you have to supply all sorts of crappy information that you provided at registration time - oh, and you have to get the case of the characters exactly right. In my case, I seem to recall I couldn't use the answer I wanted, because the question "what's your pet's name" didn't like that my pet's name only has three fucking characters. Can I remember what fucking information I provided? No. What a total piece of crap.
I supplied an alternate email address. I should be able to say "please send a magic reset URL to my alternate email address". But no, no, that might imply that the rest of the internet outside Yahoo actually had value or merit. We can't have that now, can we?
More ironically, if you have a flickr account that pre-dates the Yahoo buy-out (I don't, I only recently got a camera worthy of the name), you get something that does exactly this. Those of us forced onto Yahoo have to just suffer, grow old and die.
Yahoo Delenda Est.
Nope. Yahoo are _so_ retarded that you can't do that. Instead you have to supply all sorts of crappy information that you provided at registration time - oh, and you have to get the case of the characters exactly right. In my case, I seem to recall I couldn't use the answer I wanted, because the question "what's your pet's name" didn't like that my pet's name only has three fucking characters. Can I remember what fucking information I provided? No. What a total piece of crap.
I supplied an alternate email address. I should be able to say "please send a magic reset URL to my alternate email address". But no, no, that might imply that the rest of the internet outside Yahoo actually had value or merit. We can't have that now, can we?
More ironically, if you have a flickr account that pre-dates the Yahoo buy-out (I don't, I only recently got a camera worthy of the name), you get something that does exactly this. Those of us forced onto Yahoo have to just suffer, grow old and die.
Yahoo Delenda Est.
