Comments on: Yahoo! Messenger wins CNET Webware 100 Award

By: HalfHuman

HalfHuman — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:14:04 +0000

maybe u got a place in top100 but as many say the messenger is so bloated. the memory use is so bad. as we speak i am logged in as it is my favorite messenger and it uses more than 50megs of ram. that is a lot considering i haven’t used voice, file transfer etc which seem to skyrocket the ram usage going well past 100megs. i also must hack the registry to be able to use multiple instances of it. the java games are slow and break easily. not to mention the more and more vulnerabilities which are discovered. i can’t say i don’t like the client but u should look more into its efficiency and security.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:21 +0000

Great!!!

By: irene

irene — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:26:49 +0000

thanks andy, it helps. although i would have preferred if ym had a feature like that built in, that’s why i suggested it.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:16:27 +0000

Congratulations good job

ps. when will Messenger for vista be out please tell

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:16:05 +0000

irene,

You can have a notification when a user comes online with WackyB Status Alert plugin, you get get it here: http://gallery.yahoo.com/apps/513/locale/en lets you assign a sound of your choice to each user for both on/off line and when you get a new message.. (each friend can have their own sound) Better yet you can have their status change spoken to you! If you only want notifications from one user.. simply set all the defaults to no sound and no voice.. then from the custom user tab select a friend and configure the sounds… Hope this helps(

By: Janus

Janus — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 21:10:57 +0000

First, in response to The Dark Knight… How the heck does the Yahoo! Messenger Team deserve this? They can’t even keep the frickin’ program working! Those congrats to the Yahoo! Mail Team. I got no complaints with Yahoo! Mail.

Now for my main comment… How the heck did this even happen? As I know Sarah and another gentlemen at Yahoo! commented on, they acknowledge how fustrated and dissapointed users are with their messanger program, so how is it they get an award for best webware when the cursed thing doesn’t even work half the time! Honestly, I want an answer to this.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:36:43 +0000

It sure would be nice to hear some actual updates from the Yahoo team.. I mean, isnt that why we read this blog anyway? Thats why I do.. i could care less about the toolbar features, and whatever award yahoo has won. Obviously the users arent happy with the software, and it needs to be fixed, and it needs to be fixed fast. Im also tired of hearing how small the dev. team is for messenger. You know Yahoo makes a TON of money off the ads they force us to view in the chat rooms, so they could afford to bring a few more people to the team to get things done! Maybe we should just petition Google to make their own chat service, then we wouldnt have to wait for Yahoo to get its act together..

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:18:40 +0000

LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: pascalin

pascalin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:30:24 +0000

hey rick , we dont have any employeers at yahoo, i guess ..we are just lucky

By: irene

irene — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:20:24 +0000

could you add a “notify” feature on ym for vista so that you get notified (buzzed or something) when a certain person comes online?

btw, when do you plan to release it?