Of course it isn’t.

I invested quite a bit of time trying to find a disparaging Yahoo ID username that communicated my highly nuanced feelings about needing yet another email address and ID to use flickr. It turns out Yahoo has some pretty sophisticated detection methods. The upshot of which is that I now have a Yahoo ID/Flickr account with a lost username/password/email address that I can’t get into. So I won’t be using Flickr.

Yahoo gets a lot of press within the Usability/UI world for the design pattern work and UI development. Sometimes business decisions override usability. In this case, the pain of a Yahoo ID does not outweigh the pain of not using Flickr. I hope someone takes this into consideration, but I’m not optimistic.