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title: How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
linkurl: https://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet

date: 2012-05-22 01:00:03+00:00

tags:
  - photography
---

Great insight article into what and how exactly Yahoo managed to screw this up.

> It is a case study of what can go wrong when a nimble, innovative startup gets gobbled up by a behemoth that doesn't share its values. What happened to Flickr? The same thing that happened to so many other nimble, innovative startups who sold out for dollars and bandwidth: Yahoo.

As a year long Flickr user I'm just sad about this but hey, we got [500px](https://500px.com/kremalicious) which probably wouldn't exist without Flickr's decline.