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The account creation page (for those who like me used Flickr without a Yahoo account) is a mess – for any account name I tried entering, it said that an account with the same name already exists. Finally managed to create my Yahoo account somewhere else in the settings.

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Haven't been able to get to my flickr photos for many, many months.

Even though I'm already logged in to Yahoo, I'm prompted to login. Then I get this error:

"Hello- new account signups are temporarily unavailable from this network address space used by your Internet Service Provider."

By far the most pathetic acquisition integration I've ever seen.

I've had that problem as well. I'm not sure if it's a bug or it is genuinely taken

I just went to my settings, changed the password somewhere in them, signed out, signed in using my gmail address and the new password, and it worked.

But yeah, flickr is buggy. The Android app on my tablet never seemed to load anything (except on rare occasions), and I uploaded a large amount of photos a couple of times, edited the names and tags, and some of the names/tags were lost. But I enjoy some of the groups there, got some good advice on buying a medium format SLR.

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