Flickr Users Cry Mutiny Over New Video Feature

Picture by Lynn's Photography

(wired) -- Several groups protesting this week's addition of video to Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site have sprung up to object to the new feature.

One group, We Say No to Videos on Flickr, has amassed more than 22,000 members since Tuesday's announcement about the photo site's feature creep. A like-minded group, calling itself No Video on Flickr, has attracted more than 9,000 Flickr users.

"The big issue is the way it was implemented," said Jason Bouwmeester, a systems analyst in Canada and one of the group administrators for No Video on Flickr. "There was no public beta.... They just reset everyone's settings." Users have complained about the video features causing the whole site to slow down, a possible influx of YouTube junk and the deviation from Flickr's original purpose -- photography. full story