Flickr and its stupid annoying message

Flickr used to be great.  I used it regularly to share my photos with my family and friends.  Then Flickr was bought by Yahoo! and I had a feeling that things would take a turn for the worst.  They did.

1. They made users merge their Yahoo accounts with their Flickr accounts.  I don’t use Yahoo services, I don’t like Yahoo services.  There is zero benefit to me in merging my Flickr account with Yahoo!.  

2. At some point in the past I uploaded more than 200 pictures.  At some point in the past and limit was imposed on the number of pictures that you could share.  This limit seems to be set at 200 pictures.  Now when I login to Flickr I see a message that takes up half the size of my screen telling me that I’ve passed the 200 picture limit and that some of my pictures are hidden.  There does not seem to be anyway to turn off this message.

 The result of these 2 issues is that I no longer have any inclination to use Flickr.  It was once a great service but has now rendered itself an annoyance that I can live  without.

I currently use Picasa for most of my picture sharing.  Not for any particular reason other than it just works and doesn’t (yet) have any annoying messages that I can’t turn off.