Comments on: What’s your status?

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:04:23 +0000

if you had the music set up to itunes more would use it…

By: Sush

Sush — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:58:16 +0000

thanks!

By: mari

mari — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:13:28 +0000

same prob…i change my status to “view my webcam” and to all of my contacts it shows as simply “available” – this stopped working recently – it’s pretty frustrating

By: tatum

tatum — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:28:24 +0000

what do i do when the link (url) that i typed in my status message doesn’t show?

By: Yahoohoo

Yahoohoo — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:55:41 +0000

people frustrated that yahoo is filtering certain url statuses can use the free redirect service http://tinyurl.com/

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:08:54 +0000

helow. if you could just help me with the status thingy.. i just want to put a hyperlink to this site http://www.crunchyroll.com/series-1578/Jenny-Juno-Movie.html
and i’d like to put like sweeet and other words like that but it won’t work. how could i do that?!! help

if you could reply directly to my mail .

thanks!!!

By: pht

pht — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:20:34 +0000

same problem with status can’t change it a few months ago it worked just fine now i’m begining to see that only specific users can’t do this. IT IS EXTREMELY FUSTRATING and pretty shameful for such a company as yahoo not to see this problem and fix it.

By: diana pop

diana pop — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:29:19 +0000

i have the exact problem andrew described!
cannot for the love of god display a simple link to my photo-sharing site to let my friends see our new baby!
it is incredibly frustrating, i have changed 3 YM versions and still no luck.
if there are websites blocked in YM status messages, why isn’t there a warning, or a faq with a list?

andrew, please let me know if you have a solution!

By: Aris

Aris — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:19:52 +0000

Cool…

By: Mohan Anandaram

Mohan Anandaram — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:24:57 +0000

Atleast when the message is not sent for the following reasons please let the yahoo user know’HeyDude..You have a problem with your status’..Send an email ..Atleast Yahoo can do that if its music being listened by their own product Yahoo music…. especially when listening music happens this happens all the time..

Somewhere in December 2006 Yahoo! did some changes to their servers. It seems that status messages which contain specific URL addresses inside them are not being sent to your list contacts at all. There are also reports that some other status text patterns are being rejected as well. This is a issue with Yahoo!’s messenger servers.
Status was changed very often in a short period of time
Yahoo! Messenger will block any further status messages from your account, if too many status changes occured during a given time. This is to avoid flooding attempts towards your contact list accounts. You’ll need to wait some time (1 hour, less or more) before your statuses will be working again. You should not try to refresh your status during this time, as it will only increase the period. There are reports that completely uninstalling Yahoo! Messenger, also wiping the registry entries, and reinstalling it, might do the trick also. You may want to use a status that changes less frequently. There are many ways to do this.
Status is still not being received
The only possible reasons the status is not being sent, even if it appears in the status area, are:
You have a very slow internet connection, or the connection to Yahoo servers is lost
You are using some other 3rd party software, such as a firewall, or Yahoo! Messenger tunnel (Y!Tunnel, YTK Pro…) which may filter/block the data sent/received between YM and the internet.