Fuck you, flickr

I'd just had this great idea. Honestly, it was fantastic. Probably one of the best ideas I've had so far; I think it comes second to "I should get a girlfriend to do that for me".

The concept was a simple photo gallery app that pulled specifically tagged photos from multiple, online photo sharing sources. It wasn't going to be a commercial thing, I'm just fed up of having to visit Picasa, flickr, Facebook, ...., and so forth just to see photos of me. The idea came to me: I'm really lazy... I want to just go to one place... Yeah, I'm not going in to too much detail but that's because I don't like to give away too much.

Anyway, like the idiot I am, I started working on the design and actually started implementing it before checking out the terms of service for the APIs I was using. There it was, sitting under the first "You shall not"...

Use Flickr APIs for any application that replicates or attempts to replace the essential user experience of Flickr.com.

Fan-fucking-tastic. I'm assuming that means that I can't create a web gallery app that allows people to create their own gallery from specific photos. That takes from the essential user experience for flickr, right? Damn.

Don't get me wrong, though, I love flickr. I really do like flickr, I use it myself... I just want to say

Fuck you, flickr, for not allowing me to waste your bandwidth and make me happy.

I'm glad I read it now, rather than a month down the line when I was ready to try and release this thing.

I guess I should read more...

June 19th @ 1:00 AM | 0 Comments | Tags: rant, web | Trackback