Flickr Signup Shouldn’t be this Hard

I’m trying to sign up for Flickr.

I created a new Yahoo ID using my email address as part of the process. When I go to sign in, it tells me that my email is associated with an existing flickr account, so I need to merge the accounts. OK, I’ll buy that, I might have signed up a couple years ago to poke around…. so I head to their “lost password” form which wants my email address. I put it in and… get told that it’s associated with a yahoo account so they can’t retrieve the password.

The net result is that I can’t sign in. I used their support form, we’ll see how long before I get a reply.