Got a flickr Account …Finally

I’ve got a little idea on the go for a new site, more of a kind of personal hobby/interest site with a bit of adsense & affiliate links thrown in for good measure perhaps. As I’m going to be taking photos of my home town of Hoylake, I want to use flickr to host the photos (and link back to my new site via the user profile). Not that I’m an ace photographer by-the-way – I’m a total point and shoot kind of person.

Well, up until this morning I’d been in “pending” in flickr for over 3 weeks. This meant that my photos didn’t show in any flickr search. Apparently, all accounts are manually reviewed before they can go “live”. Fair enough if that’s how it works. But waiting this long – it’s a general problem I gather – can only put people off can’t it? To be honest, I didn’t envisage anything but an instant sign-up and go setup. It’s not like it’s a start-up site… it’s been around long enough and it’s owned by yahoo for heavens sake. I think the owners need to put their hands in their (very) deep pockets and allocate the required resources to sort the issues out.

Anyway, I’m now apparently safe so I can get cracking.

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