You gotta love when a small company gets taken over by a big faceless giant, and you start getting left-hand/right-hand problems where, for example, one group in a company will add a nifty feature to the product that reduces the pain of working with said company tremendously, only to have someone else in the same company make a change that sabotages all the work of the first group.
Someone at Yahoo added a feature to the Flickr Uploader that lets it automatically determine image rotation.
Someone else at Yahoo added a feature to the website that lets it automatically determine image rotation.
No one at Yahoo bothered to see if the two systems work together, so you have situation where the auto-rotation-magic of the Flickr Uploader is wiped out by the auto-rotation-magic of the website’s back end processes.
Morons.