Flickr dumps old Yahoo login system after over 10 years

Photo-sharing website Flickr has finally dumped Yahoo’s old login system after over 10 years, a move which was most requested by its users.

“It’s been difficult for Flickr’s new owner, SmugMug, to step away from Yahoo. In an effort to improve performance and reliability, SmugMug also has been moving data from Yahoo’s data centers to Amazon Web Services computing foundation,” CNET reported on Monday.

This is a welcome change for Flickr users who reportedly didn’t like the login system introduced in 2007, two years after Yahoo acquired the website.

Verizon-owned Yahoo was once an Internet giant that helped popularise services like web-based email.