Ask HN: Is del.icio.us the last remaining yahoo service you were using

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by mrphoebs • 16 years ago

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With the sunset of delicious, yahoo's reach in my daily life is essentially nil. Is it the same for other people out there?

itg• 16 years ago

Flickr

InclinedPlane• 16 years ago

I'm still angry that yahoo bought them. Since then they've let flickr stagnate while the rest of the landscape innovated around them (almost making them obsolete) and they've added the encumbrance of being forced to login with a yahoo account.

byoung2• 16 years ago

I tried to sign up for Flikr and noticed Yahoo had bought them. Refusing to sign up for a Yahoo account, I now use Picasa for photo storage and sharing.

dstein• 16 years ago

I haven't used a Yahoo service since the 90's.

msquared• 16 years ago

I know this doesn't add anything in particular, but I'd like to reinforce your point.

Ditto.

dwc• 16 years ago

I had stopped using del.icio.us a year or two ago. That may have been the only Yahoo! service I had ever used.

Jun8• 16 years ago

It's the one I was using on a daily basis. Apart from that I occasionally I also use Flickr and BOSS named entity recognition service.

bbgm• 16 years ago

Delicious and Flickr.

GBond• 16 years ago

They are still best for apps that rely on high content value, thus I still use them for Finance and Fantasy Sports.

mrphoebs• 16 years ago

I totally forgot flickr, its the site I most visit.

staunch• 16 years ago

Yahoo could completely shutdown and I wouldn't notice until someone told me. Even Flickr.

cmoylan• 16 years ago

I still have a Yahoo email address that I use whenever I don't want to give away my real email address.

bmm6o• 16 years ago

Me too. Gmail is for people I trust, yahoo is for when I want the email but don't want the sender to have my "real" address (e.g. hotel/travel confirmations), and hotmail is for when I don't even want the email.

hasenj• 16 years ago

I still check my yahoo email from time to time, just in case. Yahoo mail could totally shut down and I wouldn't even care.

gw666• 16 years ago

It's the only Yahoo service I've used in years, and I use it every day. <sigh>

_b8r0• 16 years ago

I use Yahoo mail for signing up to things. I check it once or twice a year. I have a flickr account but wouldn't notice if it disappeared. I use Yahoo site explorer for SEO tracking though, and that's useful. I also use Delicious more or less daily.

kgutteridge• 16 years ago

Yahoo email that gets checked about once a month, Flickr but sure I could move to picassa its only because of the convenience of iPhoto + flickr

Delicious is the only service I used at least every other day

waterlesscloud• 16 years ago

Flickr, and I still have a group of friends that I communicate with via a private yahoo group.

jeffepp• 16 years ago

Fantasy Football, that's about it.

khandelwal• 16 years ago

I use the geocoder. It's terms seemed less restrictive than Google's.

Ask HN: Is del.icio.us the last remaining yahoo service you were using

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