Yahoo don't care about the user experience. I hate the fact that flickr was bought by them and not Google. The requirement to have a Yahoo account to sign in to it is a bit of a joke, considering how their mail service might as well not exist any more.
I will never be able to log in to Flickr again
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Re: I will never be able to log in to Flickr again
#42No spaces in passwords? Obviously not hashing them.
There's a difference between not allowing spaces and not hashing. They could have just written a bad PW policy that doesn't completely make sense
You're drawing conclusions from information that doesn't lead you to one.
Re: I will never be able to log in to Flickr again
#43This feels sensationalist to me. Password requirements, a captcha, and (optional I think) phone verification are common on many sites. I was able to create an account in about 30 seconds. I think if the author wants to, he will be able to log in to Flickr in the future
Yes many sites do require that, but Yahoo? I expected a little more from them, does it even make any sense to have such password requirements anymore? Also, I can't tell for sure if the phone verification is optional, it could be required for new sign ups randomly. Yea I most definitely can, but I will definitely don't feel like logging in anymore.
The requirements are reasonable in my opinion: the length range prevents too short of passwords, and the variety of characters range prevents some of the weakest passwords: 'password' for example. Not allowing whitespace in passwords can prevent a lot of headaches - say I wrote a password on a piece of paper. How do I represent two spaces vs. one space? Nicer for Yahoo to not have to have to deal with that type of problem from angry users.
All CAPTCHAS are a pain, but the reasons for having one are fair.
The phone verification is a more interesting issue. When I created an account yesterday, it never asked anything about phone verification. And some people don't perhaps have phone access who could be trying to register? If it is randomly mandatory, that's a decent pain and privacy issue. I'm guessing it's probably opt-in or opt-out though
Do I agree with all their decisions? Not really, but I can see why they were made