Flickr Crashes Following Massive Yahoo Mail Outage

On the heels of a massive outage that has left some Yahoo Mail users without email access since Monday, Yahoo's photo-sharing platform Flickr temporarily crashed.

Many Flickr users were unable to access the site for nearly two hours on Thursday, starting at about 11 a.m. ET, but it was inaccessible worldwide for 10 minutes.

Flickr's signature "Bad Panda" error message (see below) appeared for some, while others were told it couldn't load due to "inactivity timeout."

"Flickr was unavailable for a very short amount of time and this issue has been resolved. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused," a Yahoo spokesperson told Mashable. Read more...