Comments on: 2006’s Innovations in Instant Messaging

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:17:48 +0000

PLEASE FIX the Mac version so it is fully compatible with the winblows version! This is total & complete BS – yahoo is making plenty of $$$$ off of Mac users yet they fail to support the platform, I find this ridiculous.

By: phil

phil — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:26:50 +0000

please, please! make the MAC version similar to the windows version…feeling very restricted here…

By: dizionario

dizionario — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:39:38 +0000

Nice site you have!

By: thilanki

thilanki — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:36:35 +0000

please help me , some fool is flooding my messeger with instant ,messages and i cant log it in , when i do i get millions of messages … cna yahoo help me …..

By: Yohannon

Yohannon — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:56:41 +0000

Quite frankly I can’t believe y’all are pushing the VISTA version of Yahoo Messenger when you haven’t released a second beta of the Mac OS X version. It’s been awhile since beta one — and I agree I hate the new sounds. Short of downloading the positively ancient 2.5.3 version and hacking it to bits for the sound files, I want to just choose the old sounds.

Oh, and how about VOICE chat?! I’m tired of the fact that I can’t even voice chat with the PC clients.

Thank you,

~Yohannon~

By: jay

jay — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:06:43 +0000

How do i access yahoo chat room w/ my 3.0 ver. of messanger HELP

By: gail

gail — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:58:29 +0000

hmmm…. sounds nice if you’re a PC user….however, I have a Mac, and a lot of these features aren’t available for me.

By: Angela Collado

Angela Collado — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:43:31 +0000

Thank you alot for helping me out

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:27:08 +0000

I’ve used both the old Mac Messenger (2.5.3) and the new Mac 3.0 Beta 1. I love many of the new features listed above (sharing richer files, interoperability, privacy setting per ID), but there’s a few things about the old UI that should be carried forward (or offered as options).

IM is still primarily about conversation. The following things get in the way of that:
- The 3D ID bars added in between each post are pretty, but they’re also distracting, fill up the message window and break up the conversation. Imagine if you were talking to someone and a pretty 1 second tone sounded before every sentence you or the other person said… pretty annoying, huh? You’ll get the same “updated” effect by merely giving a 3D treatment to the poster’s IDs, but leaving most of the space in Messenger window for what the PARTICIPANTS want to say.

- There’s only a few ways to add expression to text. One is breaking entries into paragraphs before posting (like this one). When you removed the Send button, you removed that option. Please put back a way for us to add carriage returns to our posts.

- The 3.0 alert sounds are cool and all, but most are too subtle. I have to constantly remind myself what each one means. When you hear a door knock you know someone wants to come in, no training necessary. Keep the old sounds along with the new.

Please add the above as options along with the ability to revert to the old style presentation. Don’t throw out what worked about the original in an attempt to make the new version more visually (and auditorally) interesting. Thanks

By: heywhynot

heywhynot — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:12:01 +0000

why not just 1 window for the avatars in messnger instaed of 2 let the avatars stand side by side it will be easier to do the *action text* thing then ?