The long, slow decline of Yahoo! continues. Yahoo stock continues to fall and the company is laying off employees and attempting to focus on core products.
I am confused by the decision to the “down scaling” of Flickr. This is the one Yahoo service I use and continue to pay for. Perhaps Yahoo has been scared off Flickr by the unlimited Google free photos account, but Flickr still allows photographers to save images at full size. This does not matter to those collecting cell phone photos, but it matters to those of us using a DSLR.
We collect photos for ourselves and for others. Photo storage of digital images is a puzzle that online companies have yet to solve. More images without a plan for the future.
When one has a product doing reasonably well in a competitive market showing weakness or lack of commitment is a very bad move. With luck, perhaps Flickr will be sold to a company willing to commit to the product.