Just received an e-mail from Yahoo! letting me know they’re shutting down the Yahoo! Photos service. They are of course migrating everyone over to your choice of options, with the obvious encouragement to choose flickr.
We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket), download your original-resolution photos back to your computer, or buy an archive CD from our featured partner (for users of the New Yahoo! Photos only). All you need to do is tell us what to do with your photos before we close, after which any photos remaining on Yahoo! Photos will be deleted and no longer accessible.
Of course, we hope you’ll join us at Flickr (you can even use your Yahoo! ID), but we also realize that Flickr may not be for everyone. In the end, we want you to find the service that’s right for you, and we hope you take some time to learn more about your options before making this important decision.
That’s what I did. Now, I just need to decide if I want to pay the upgrade to increase my account standing on flickr to “Pro” status.
What are you doing?