14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, the Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo made what seems to be Flickr's first step into the video sharing market: the implementation of video support which allows users to upload their own clips on the famous photo sharing website. That's right, Flickr was actually a photo sharing webpage and the video support somehow changes its target. This is the reason why lots of people who were using Flickr on a daily basis considered the latest update unacceptable.
Just after the launch of the video function, a Flickr community formed the "We Say NO to Videos on Flickr," a special discussion group in which the members who dislike the update are invited to sign a petition in order to convince Flickr owners to remove video support. Their reason: Flickr was a photo sharing service and it should remain the same for the time being. "If Internet users want video sharing functions, they should go to YouTube," Flickr fans consider.
Here are a few statements published on the "We Say NO to Videos on Flickr" group:
"I joined Flickr because it was a great PHOTO site. I have made great contacts over the years some whom have become close friends. This in the first place is a PHOTO site not a VIDEO site. I payed to be a member of a PHOTO site. not a VIDEO site. Hell you want VIDEO youtube is free lets you upload 10 minutes of video not 90 seconds. GO there with your videos. Having to scroll down my contacts stream to by pass their videos NO GOOD, Sorry to say until Flickr works out a way to OPT out of Video to were I can see only PHOTOS here as it's meant to be. I will remove any of my contacts from my contacts list if they up load videos. I will not make anyone a contact if they up load videos!" - Photojunky - AMDM.
"REMOVE VIDEO! Flickr is a photography site" - Blind Manche.
"Flickr is our only hope to express our ideas in photography. We don't wanna get videos on Flickr. Videos should be on YouTube!" - Simply Me.
The full discussion group is available here.