Comments on: The New Yahoo! Photos – Now Available in the U.S. http://www.darryl.net/w/2006/08/21/the-new-yahoo-photos-now-available-in-the-us/ The Impact of Product Management Wed, 27 May 2009 01:48:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Darryl http://www.darryl.net/w/2006/08/21/the-new-yahoo-photos-now-available-in-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Darryl Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:47:02 +0000 http://www.darryl.net/w/?p=28#comment-303 We migrate active users before inactive users. Users cannot perform or accelerate the migration process beyond logging in to "2.0". Unfortunately, transferring and resizing ~2BB+ photos takes time, so even though we put active users in a special queue, that queue is large. Perhaps we should have put a "your spot in the queue" countdown. We migrate active users before inactive users. Users cannot perform or accelerate the migration process beyond logging in to “2.0″. Unfortunately, transferring and resizing ~2BB+ photos takes time, so even though we put active users in a special queue, that queue is large. Perhaps we should have put a “your spot in the queue” countdown.

]]> By: Steve http://www.darryl.net/w/2006/08/21/the-new-yahoo-photos-now-available-in-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-302 Steve Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:10:40 +0000 http://www.darryl.net/w/?p=28#comment-302 A lot of us yahoo members who were early adopters on the original photos.yahoo.com are flummoxed and mystified about the process of migrating our existing yahoo photo albums to the "new" yahoo photo system. Just the fact that we don't have a good naming system to distinguish old from new - "2.0" and "3.0"? where do those appear anywhere in the UI? - is emblematic of how confusing the whole system is. The photos help database doesn't provide any visibility into the presence of two (OK, three if you count flickr) incompatible photo "systems" on Yahoo, or give any insight into the migration process. Can users perform (or accelerate) the migration process itself? Or is it entirely at the whim of some bot which is slowly crawling through all yahoo accounts and converting albums? A lot of us yahoo members who were early adopters on the original photos.yahoo.com are flummoxed and mystified about the process of migrating our existing yahoo photo albums to the “new” yahoo photo system. Just the fact that we don’t have a good naming system to distinguish old from new – “2.0″ and “3.0″? where do those appear anywhere in the UI? – is emblematic of how confusing the whole system is.

The photos help database doesn’t provide any visibility into the presence of two (OK, three if you count flickr) incompatible photo “systems” on Yahoo, or give any insight into the migration process. Can users perform (or accelerate) the migration process itself? Or is it entirely at the whim of some bot which is slowly crawling through all yahoo accounts and converting albums?

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