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1. Any word on the street about the new Mac version?

   Comment by Mark — August 21, 2007 #

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3. Sarah thank you and I commend you for listening to our requests for informed updates. We appreciate that you are listening, after all, and are aware of our priorities: bots and access to chosen rooms. My guess is that you are a bright and conscientious woman who has been denied sufficient resources and authority. Keep swinging for us. Thanks again.

   Comment by Littlemore Patience — August 21, 2007 #

4. I downloaded the new update and it still has bugs in it. Still keep geting chat error, a new one about communication error when trying to join a room, still keep hopping all over the place, and still all of them bots. My guess and I hope I am right Yahoo will be fixing the bots and room choice soon and some of the bugs with the new version.

   Comment by John — August 21, 2007 #

5. Hey if i wanted to find out what this exploit is or was or what it did or does or any info about such exploits will you all be so nice to tell me.
   I can name a few exploits my self but cant give away my secrets lmao.
   Any ways how does one learn about this exploit that you stated you patched.
   How does one know that you really did patch this exploit.
   and how do you all know that it fixed the exploit damn i have many many questions regarding this exploit.
   Any hoo
   keep up the good work you people may learn programming yet.

   Comment by SomeOne — August 21, 2007 #

6. Thanks for letting us know about these exploits. Any chance you will come out with an ad-free Yahoo Messenger client for paid AT&T customers like myself? I’d like to have my messenger ad-free. Thanks!

   Comment by Hates Ads — August 21, 2007 #

7. Each time a new version is installed, YIM insists on setting itself to start automatically when Windows starts, despite that I have it set not to do so in the previous version.

   It remembers all other settings, but chooses not to respect that one. Do you guys get joy out of annoying users like that?

   Comment by Sure — August 21, 2007 #

8. yeah the rooms are messed up lots of peoples are complaining about it in rooms you try to go some where and it just takes you where ever, and hafe the times you try to enter in a room and you just get a Chat Error and says Communications Problem , also some times if you go to your chat list lot of the times it comes up blank and you have to keep clicking on other categories and just going back and forth tell you get the room list to where ever right or to show them are the most biggest problems right now

   Comment by Cisco — August 21, 2007 #

9. How about designing an update system which just updates the changed files than download the whole friggin’ package every time?

   See how they do it on Firefox?

   That’s how to do it.

   Very annoyed with these kinda updates. I might stop using YIM cos of this.

   Comment by Michael Dobrofsky — August 21, 2007 #

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11. I downloaded new version 416, but i am happy with 3rd party client

    Comment by KIKI Muslimah — August 22, 2007 #

12. Sarah Bacon,

    My friend & I checked yesterday & it said there was an update so we downloaded it but the version it gave us was 8.1.0.415. Today we read this blog & it says that it’s 416 but when we click on “check for updates” it tells us we are running the current version. So how are we supposed to get the 416?

    Comment by MrsPsychoRat — August 22, 2007 #

13. Same problem or experience as MrsPsychoRat. I had the same issue as MrsRat. My yahoo version was 8.1.0.415. When I went to upgrade to 416, it would not. It said I already had the most current version. So no update.

    Comment by drofpsych — August 22, 2007 #

14. i just manually installed the latest version but i think if i signed i might have gotten the auto update window as well. and yeah kiki enjoy your 3rd party client and its complexity then lol. its because of 3rd party programs ability to connect to yahoo that you have all of these problems with bots and etc. in the first place.

    Comment by ban_yaheliete — August 22, 2007 #

15. Sorry, as much as I like the chat rooms… I don’t want to be a beta tester. And yes I know yall say it isn’t a Beta… but your releases are full of flaws, untested, and have no real info on how they work other than my trial and error.

    I prefer to give you time to fix your releases before I use them

    Comment by Donna — August 22, 2007 #

16. Hi, I look after the website and do some tech support at YTK Pro and I’ve got a few comments.

    I think Yahoo!’s timely response to patch vulnerablities in its software should be commended. They addressed serious vulnerabilities in super fast time and no one has said ”well done”.

    On the chatroom side of things – does anyone see the positive side in what Yahoo! is doing here?

    1. They Acknowledge that there are issue.
    2. They are working to resolve these issues.
    3. They are keeping us in the loop by feedback through this channel.
    4. We are starting to see results!

    This is a free service (ad supported) and we’re getting a response albeit slow coming at times. How about we give the guys some more time to produce the goods and bring the fun back into Chat instead of bombarding them with flames and abuse.

    Think about it.

    Comment by Ian Kenefick — August 22, 2007 #

17. @Donna

    There is lots of software out there that isn’t labelled ‘BETA’ but is full of flaws. You use Windows right?

    By downloading and installing Yahoo! Messenger you accepted Yahoo’s terms of service. If you don’t want to use the service then don’t use it – but destructive criticism doesn’t help anyone.

    Comment by Ian Kenefick — August 22, 2007 #

18. This new version still isn’t working right. Been getting communication errors when trying to get into a room and chat error when I type into a room. Also. can’t get into the room I want but sends me all over the place to rooms I don’t even want to go to. The bots are still a problem…how come most of the rooms are 99.9% bots? This new version is just as bad as the previous version and I thought it would be better! Man was I wrong. Guess we will have to wait until Yahoo gets their act together and really fixes chat instead of getting these updates which are just as bad as what we already had.

    Comment by John — August 22, 2007 #

19. What is yahoo doing to fix the problem of filesharing and photos within messenger window?? I know many are experiencing this prob as well. Pictures remain fuzzy and do not focus and files sent come through as an X when opened up. It has been going on now for months!! Anyone have any idea or info???

    Comment by RYan — August 22, 2007 #

20. The Latest Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.416 has given something which I never expected from Yahoo, voice chat support in chatrooms for windows vista.

    Now when you try launch Voice in chatrooms initially we get the “Your computer does not support the required audio compression format.” After clicking OK I once again connected to voice and there you have it I got Voice Chat in Yahoo Messenger on my Windows Vista Home Premium! I’d like to thank Yahoo for fixing this problem for all Windows Vista users. Although I must say I had the TSP Voice Codec already installed (downloaded from http://www.bytescribe.com/downloads/tsp_codec_install.exe ). So I am not so sure whether that did the trick or Yahoo really solved my problem because that codec had been installed for couple of months but I was never able to connect to voice chat in chatrooms in Yahoo! Messenger even then but as soon as I installed this latest build I instantly got back my voice chat. Kudos to Yahoo!

    Comment by Rick — August 22, 2007 #

21. o and heres a bug as well to the other ones i said on top when ever you go in a Conference most of the times you can never get voice to work you have to keep inviting someone tell both of yous get voice to work and i don’t know y people still stick with yahoo as theres paltalk and camfrog y use yahoo when theres nothing but problems ever since 2006 of OCT and still is its sad atchley

    Comment by Cisco — August 22, 2007 #

22. I miss Yahoo Messenger and roomies. I have met great people thanks toyou.
    Hugs, Sarah!

    Comment by Libia — August 22, 2007 #

23. I agree – this positive work will pay off. We should be more appreciative for this free service.

    Thanks Yahoo!

    Comment by Ian Kenefick — August 22, 2007 #

24. Hi MrsPsychoRat and drofpsych,

    Thanks for bringing that issue to our attention. We synced up the ‘Check for updates’ page now so that if you are on .415 and go to that in the menu, it will prompt you to upgrade to .416. You can also always go to http://messenger.yahoo.com and download the latest version manually from there. Thanks,

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — August 22, 2007 #

25. instead of all the complains here, I think one good thing in build 416 is that u can have voice in Vista now. Ive installed Truespeech codec then build 415, restarted and there u go, Voice in Ultimate version. I guess ppl really need to understand its Free Service not a paid one so develop patience everyone

    Comment by Zammy — August 22, 2007 #

26. Just a comment for everyone who seems to think the 8.1.0.416 patch should be improving the problems in the chat rooms. As the message states, it is a *security update*. I’m not a Yahoo expert, but even I can tell that means it won’t have any effect on the chat rooms. It’s a security update, which means security. Viruses, hackers, that kind of thing.

    Just quit the moaning and let the people get on with repairing the system. That is, after all, what we all want. Isn’t it?

    Comment by Richard — August 22, 2007 #

27. Dear Sarah, with the new security updates to the Yahoo Messenger client will this put us, the Yahoo Chat user community, in a better position to get user rooms back? The day user rooms were removed is the day many users were left out in the rain. The official chat rooms are fine and good, but it’s all very bland.

    Does this security patch include, per se, something that might be used in the future to bring back user chat rooms such as chat room naming restrictions?

    Comment by Concerned Yahoo User — August 22, 2007 #

28. If Sarah Bacon does read this I and others would like to know a tentative date Yahoo will have Messenger fixed?
    I downloaded the security update but the rooms are still all botted up and you still don’t have choice of room….I and others don’t like trying to go to lets say Politics Lobby 7 and getting sent to Politics Lobby 97 instead. I am using Pal Talk until Yahoo gets all the issues worked out and gets chat working somewhat similar to how it was before all these issues started. I did have a lot of friends in chat and now I have to search the rooms on Pal Talk just to find out where they are at. My life doesn’t revolve around chat but I spend alot of time in chat because I can talk to people who have similar views to mine and I have made some nice friends in Yahoo Chat. Also, if you are going to add some new security features to Yahoo please don’t base it on a credit/debit card….not everybody has a credit/debit card and having a security feature based on that is going to knock alot of people out of chat. I know Yahoo doesn’t like the 3rd Party Chat Clients but they have features that Yahoo should have thought of and implemented in Yahoo…like Auto ignore and wild card ignore…..They do help in getting rid of bots without having to individually ignore each bot and once they are ignored they stay ignored….not like Yahoo where you have to individually ignore each bot or clone and then when you log back in have to go through the same process of ignoring the same bots and clones again. I hope Sarah and the others at Yahoo consider these suggestions because that would make us less likely to use 3rd Party Chat Clients if Yahoo Messenger had these features implemented. Waiting patiently until Yahoo gets fixed.

    Comment by John — August 22, 2007 #

29. i believe ill be sticking with a modifyed version of 5.6 work much better with less errors and crashes than newer versions i have tryed them all in reguard to credit/debit card

    Comment by mike — August 22, 2007 #

30. I miss Adam. He is so brainy not to mention very hilarious when he is discomposed.

    Comment by kim — August 22, 2007 #

31. Adam i demmand you return and post something!!!!

    Comment by kim — August 22, 2007 #

32. http://www.oohya.org/ Bot free chat!!! Chat just went up today so not all features are active yet. Voice, webcam, friends list, etc. coming soon.

    Comment by Parry Hotter — August 22, 2007 #

33. i see u can fix the old msgr but u cant bring the vista out yet how lame

    Comment by pr10wrx — August 22, 2007 #

34. Thanks for the update. The efforts of yahoo to fix upcoming problems are greatly appreciated and I look forward to the day when chat can return to normal. However, one other issue I have noticed one person in particular keeps filling up all the chat rooms with his bots. Is yahoo going to address this problem so that similar things cannot happen or that this person will not be able to continue filling up various rooms with bots?

    Comment by someonewithanopinion — August 22, 2007 #

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36. Thanks for the update, now i can get audio on the chatrooms with vista.

    Good Job guys!!!

    Comment by Oskarlover — August 22, 2007 #

37. Newer version, more errors! How about fixing your premature problems, before you decide to update them.
    ~ My two cents.

    Comment by Muhamed — August 22, 2007 #

38. Will we all have some kind of notice that yahoo is working back to normal?alot of people may not know to come here to find out what is going on.i would appreciate it if we do get a notice from staff or something.thank you for the updates here and blogs.its helps. thank you yahoo programmer friends.;)

    Comment by gina — August 23, 2007 #

39. When will you release Yahoo Messenger for Vista. Too long wait now, please at least provide some updates about it

    Comment by cosmin2007 — August 23, 2007 #

40. Ive chatted on yahoo for many years and like most have met some wonderful friends. No my life aloso soesnt revolve around chat im capable of hitting the X at the top of a screen and continuing with my life in the real world . However i use to enjoy chat for relaxation company and fun times Ive emailed yahoo on numerous occasions with concerns and complaints to their chat rooms only to get a Automated response that has NOTHING to do with the issues at hand… Frustrating to say the least to know that not one person from yahoo could take the time to read these concerns and reply back… correct me if im wrong but if it wasnt for “us” chatters there wouldnt be no need for chat rooms!!
    Unless of course yahoo is happy with having nothing but booters and porn bots taking over their rooms but seriously i doubt the sponsors/businesses that advertise with yahoo would be too impressed!
    I for one would love to hear from yahoo reguarding these problems and what exactually they are doing to rectify them……..

    Comment by unhappychatter — August 23, 2007 #

41. Hey Sarah dont you know that im a big fun and avid user of yahoo both email and messenger.So please update and upgrade the chatrooms as soon as possible, coz i really miss the cyber session im having with some studs out there in chat rooms( Married But Looking:69) when the room was not like now..Thanks PGMA….

    Comment by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo(President of the Philippines) — August 23, 2007 #

42. ^^^ lmao

    Comment by Lucchaâ„¢ — August 23, 2007 #

43. okay understand there is some big issues on chat.. but what about us vista users and news on when someone is goin too fix voice for it?

    Comment by lizzy — August 23, 2007 #

44. Vista SUX…. Switch back to XP

    Comment by Lucchaâ„¢ — August 23, 2007 #

45. will some say yes vista sucks have you used it??? if not dont step there in tell you do ty… i do have xp on another puter but i would like too use it once in a while.. for some thats all they have is vista would be nice to see a fix for it.

    Comment by lizzy — August 23, 2007 #

46. Can anyupdate on Yahoo Messenger for Vista status ?

    Comment by Ramasubbu_sk — August 23, 2007 #

47. @Ian Kenefick

    Sadly you took part of my comments and misunderstood.

    I think Yahoo has started doing a better job of communicating.

    I have as much right as you to voice an opinion. I have tried other chat services and none comes close to Yahoo. But that doesn’t mean it is without flaws.

    I am never disrespectful in my comments and have offered constructive critisism in many of my comments.

    I request (again) that yahoo keep the lines of communication open. A page (no comments permitted) with status of “Chat, 360, email…” would go a long way to stop some of the frustrations expressed on these pages.

    Comment by Donna — August 23, 2007 #

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49. Hey Sarah,

    I updated messenger here and now when I try to get into a room It tells me there is a Communication Problem ???
    And, Signing in to Chat took longer than expected.
    Please try again later ????

    Is this a new bugs that has come up and how long will it take to fix it ?

    All I can say is good thing Conf. rooms still work
    Please!! Sarah ya’ll dont touch them or update them ok ???

    Comment by Julianna — August 23, 2007 #

50. I have used Vista, most of the softwares I use aint vista compaitable…..so in this makes VISTA sux…. XP is better. Wait till Software makers gets used to VISTA. Till than hang on with XP…

    Comment by Lucchaâ„¢ — August 23, 2007 #

51. And yet another security update… I have to address the same ‘issue’ that Sure pointed out and that is: WHY Yahoo! Messenger insist on starting itself automatically every time after updated version is installed??? Why? True, it takes less than 5 seconds to change it, but it’s extremely annoying. When will the Yahoo Messenger for Vista come out? Nobody knows. Since January we only got 1 (ONE) update about it, it’s coming soon, and that’s all. Yes, it’s free and we love it, but if there were no users who would advertise on it and how would Yahoo make revenue? Yahoo should take it’s users more seriously.

    Thank you!

    Comment by Milan J. — August 23, 2007 #

52. other than the clogup of the rooms, which is on the server side, not the client side:

    version 8.1.0.416 WORKS GREAT IN VISTA

    i have vists business YMMV

    Comment by disco-legend-zeke — August 23, 2007 #

53. Hi. I am back.

    Sarah, can you update us on how many people we can have on our ignore list. Please make the number unlimited so that I can log into Yahoo messenger one free day and ignore all the bots.

    Please do update. Waiting for reply,

    userrocks

    Comment by userrocks — August 23, 2007 #

54. Hi. I am back once more.

    The problem (recurring problem):
    Under one contact I have 2 IM addresses (Live/MSN messenger and Yahoo! messenger ID) of a person. Under the previous version they were together and were being shown as 1 contact. For example: even if my contact was online on Yahoo! and MSN at the same time, on my contact list it showed 1 person as online but on the Group bar it said 2/20 (say I have 20 persons in a group) person online…very logical and very good thing.

    But now I have updated to the new version and the 2 messenger IDs (Yahoo and MSN) have got separated and they are being shown separately. ughhhh!! This happened with the last update too. Now, in order to make them one contact again I have to delete 1 messenger ID…and go back to the remaining one and the deleted ID to it once again.

    Now, I have got 10s of contacts with 2 IDs (MSN and Yahoo) who were under one contact name and now I have to do the delete and add again to all of them. So frustrating and painstaking.

    Why this separation is occurring Sarah? If you want, I can provide you more details on this problem.

    Please reply.

    userrocks

    Comment by user — August 23, 2007 #

55. you test it first Sarah …… then I will think about it ….. honestly I never dl a new version till either a few people tell me the problems it has and then I wont dl it till its fixed …… why dont you just save us the trouble of being your guinea pigs and test these things first ….. Y! can afford your salaries so why not hire testers before you put the products out there ….. other companies dont use their users a guinea pigs so why does Yahoo ???

    Comment by diane_652002 — August 23, 2007 #

56. So WHERE’S the long-promised new version for OS X? It’s been like 18 months since the last “Beta” – how hard can it be? A billion other chat clients exist for OS X, OS X itself has been on the street (first as a beta) for almost seven years for heaven’s sake!

    Comment by Lefty — August 23, 2007 #

57. Hi. I am back.

    Sarah, can you update us on how many people we can have on our ignore list. Please make the number unlimited so that I can log into Yahoo messenger one free day and ignore all the bots.

    LOL you would never ignore all the current bots there is MILLIONS and MILLIONS of them never ending you would spend your time ignoring them and not chating ignore 1 then 50 more join its never ever ending

    Comment by timmy — August 23, 2007 #

58. Cripes. Dump that piece of over bloated, bug ridden crap code that is Messy 8 and go to http://www.oldversion.com and get an old version.
    OR!
    Better yet, ditch Messy all together, get Yahelite, and use the Pager.

    Comment by Mindthug — August 23, 2007 #

59. this is incredibly lazy of me, but i would like to make a request. could an auto-updater be added to y messenger?

    there is an auto-updater in Yahoo Music Jukebox and it’s great. when a new version is released, i don’t have to visit the Jukebox website and download anything. it just asks “update now?” and boom, it’s done.

    thanks Sarah
    jon

    Comment by jon — August 23, 2007 #

60. Why should I update?

    You have taken away access to the adult rooms with the newer versions of Messenger

    PUT them back on the menu & I will upgrade willinglly

    Comment by Tracy — August 23, 2007 #

61. Just wanted to say thanks for working on it and keeping us informed. Yahoo is still the best thing around. Thanks again. ~G~

    Comment by Glynis — August 23, 2007 #

62. For some reason my logictech quickcam web suddenly stopped working with Yahoo Messenger.

    Now when I try to use my webcam Yahoo Messenger locks up and is impossible to shutdown, so I have to reboot my computer.

    This is so annoying that I uninstalled Yahoo Messenger out of spite.

    You used to be able to add the “UseVFW” entry to your registry in regedit to fix the issue, but that no longer works.

    Thanks,

    Jeff G.

    Comment by Jeff G. — August 23, 2007 #

63. How about you just reinstall your webcam driver and quit adding entries to your registry? You don’t suppose your uber leet registry strings might have something to do with that do you? lol

    Comment by Tyler — August 23, 2007 #

64. You ever hear of a task manager Jeff if yahoo locks up open your task manager and end the process there instead of rebooting your pc LMAO

    Comment by pissed off chat user — August 23, 2007 #

65. tracy, they did not take the adult rooms off the list. if u dont show it, its a problem on your end.

    Comment by the real bill — August 23, 2007 #

66. I just updated Yahoo messenger only to find the next day that the version I downloaded has been replaced by a new one. This is a 10 megabyte download and takes a real long time on a dial up connection. I certainly appreciate that security holes need to be patched by why is it necessary to download the whole program all over again? It would be great if a smaller patch could be downloaded.

    Comment by Mady — August 23, 2007 #

67. Ummmmm…CAPTCHA hasn’t even been implemented yet.

    Comment by Parry Hotter — August 23, 2007 #

68. WHERE IS THE MAC VERSION? IS IT EVER COMING?

    Comment by Zivko — August 24, 2007 #

69. Why doesn’t yahoo messenger voice chat doesn’t work with Windows vista? It works perfectly fine with XP. I have installed latest version of messenger and even downloaded codec too. But, nothing works. Can yahoo fix this? If you can’t make your product work with Vista than it sucks. no matter how badly it sucks taht we have to use vista. Both are the same i guess.

    Comment by Vista-Yahoo sucks — August 24, 2007 #

70. Elbo…you’re a nerd

    Comment by Pj — August 24, 2007 #

71. So you would rather they post constant updates than drive the process to make the repairs?

    Admittedly, periodic updates would be nice. Admittedly, two weeks is a bit long. But let’s be careful not to take them away from the task at hand by suggesting frequent progress updates.

    Comment by SoYouWould — August 24, 2007 #

72. Since the topic this time is “new version” I thought I’d pose this question.. Do you know your Mac version has been in Beta 1 for well over a year now?

    Just a friendly reminder

    Comment by Jeremy — August 24, 2007 #

73. “Sarah sure is busy deleting posts how about fixing chat ffs

    Comment by pissed off chat user — August 24, 2007 #”

    Amen “pissed off chat user”,,,
    She’s removed just about all of my posts to this page and several others, she’ll take the time to delete them, but not even a few seconds of time to post an update however brief and vague. Does tell us one thing for sure, “if it says yahoo sucks” it gets removed, if it praises the current state of yahoo not working, it gets to stay.

    Comment by Billishere — August 24, 2007 #

74. Most of you people are losers who have nothing to do in life except crib and waste your time on internet being fakers and chatting.

    Comment by user — August 24, 2007 #

75. “I miss the old days of chat when there were few bots and lots of real human chatters (circa ‘99 to ‘03).”

    Amen

    it’s been all down hill ever since that ugly media flare up from the kiddy porn fear monger element.
    when yahoo irrationally responded to the fringe and eliminated all the user created chat rooms.
    “a classic case of dandruff cured by decapitation.”

    anybody know of a chat platform comparable to the good old days of yahoo, if there isn’t one, somebody should jump on that, it’s clear the people want it…

    Comment by jj vibes — August 24, 2007 #

76. AnonyMOOSE,
    No there’s no projected time, Marie AntoinetteSarah Bacon Product Manager, won’t throw us peasents a crumb of cake giving us even the slightest clue if it will be fixed anytime soon if ever at all

    Comment by Billishere — August 24, 2007 #

77. all rooms are “full or closed”?? hummmm you really did it this time

    Comment by unhappy chatter — August 24, 2007 #

78. Great progress. Now all rooms show 50 people in every room and you get a room full try another message when you try to get in. You guys sure know how to make progress. Also people are now sayin you are closin messenger on the 25th and then gonna charge for it. What an outfit.

    Comment by devildog1941 — August 24, 2007 #

79. Sarah and all, wouldn’t it be easy to stick in a fix for chatroom voice for Vista in one of these updates???? It’s not like there aren’t 11 million people or more running vista… forget the fancy messenger for Vista. Fix this one to get voice in Vista. I know tons of people who are begging for it. Oh, and for the sex bots to disappear so we can actually get in a room……

    Comment by full, closed and upgrade but no vista? — August 24, 2007 #

80. Paltalk! Obviously, Sarah and her team could care less about chat. Every day that passes, it gets a little worse. I don’t care if some of you think this is a non-constructive comment. Think about it. What other program do you have that has progressively gotten worse through the years? yahoo cares about advertising revenue..that is the limit of their concerns. 5000 bots per category pays the same as 5000 people. If you wonder why the bots are still there, now you know the reason! Ask yourself why yahoo has not just shut down chat until the problems are fixed. Advertising revenue! yahoo sucks!

    Comment by cj — August 24, 2007 #

81. Security update ? Yes it is , its so secure now I can’t even LOG into a chat room at all !!! WTF !

    Comment by Mortech — August 24, 2007 #

82. the only difference with this update is the version number. yahoo just toying with us

    Comment by demented_mindz — August 24, 2007 #

83. Sarah,
    You and yahoo are full of it. You keep sayin what you are trying. I know enough about software and fixes that it shouldn’t take you all this time to undo it. If nothing else you could simply restore it to what was there and then refine your fixes. You are more intersted in sellin advertising. You can’t even provide informative and timely updates. Just vague references and empty apologies.

    Comment by devildog1941 — August 24, 2007 #

84. It does NOT work.
    And I No longer care.
    Yahoo, you lost a customer.
    anyone else with me?

    Comment by mcratty — August 24, 2007 #

85. People! Free of speech is what makes America great and I embrace Yahoo! for recognising that.When our freedom of speech is takened away by booters, room laggers, voice bots….then I get PISSED! I only hope Yahoo! catches those responsible for destroying free speech and prosecute their azz to to fullest extent of the law!

    Comment by ziplock2k — August 24, 2007 #

86. i still run messy 7 i tried 8 last year when it first came out. alot of ppl still run the old messy and the file transfer wouldnt work between the old one and the new one so i went back to 7. if the file transfers would work between the old and new i would upgrade again.

    Comment by Name (required) — August 24, 2007 #

87. Upgrade and ask your friends to upgrade. Simple!

    Comment by Ronnie — August 24, 2007 #

88. no its not that simple

    Comment by Name (required) — August 24, 2007 #

89. I can not download the yahoo messenger 8.1. there is a dialog box appeared and told me that I must reinstall the riched20.lld file. what can I do?
    thanks so much for your feedback!

    Comment by trinh — August 25, 2007 #

90. I downloaded the newest version. BUT now can NOT see TEXT in chatrooms. Apparently many others that downloaded the newer version in an attempt to access chatrooms can’t see text either.

    People are just more and more frustrated with what use to be a great Yahoo experience. And more are ldumping messenger as a result of this mess they’ve allowed and participated in (the porn bots) and the rest.

    Downloade PaTalk and looking at other chat programs my friends have suggested. Guess I will maybe follow the crowd and forget about Yahoo.

    Comment by max — August 26, 2007 #

91. I haven’t updated yet but plan to soon but how about more skins for yahoo messenger. I currently only see 4 available and although the pink is nice, I would like to see this skins feature expanded to a few more options. You come up with new avatar outfits every week, so why not more yahoo skins too.

    Comment by Jenni — August 26, 2007 #

92. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/yahoo_messenger_network_overru.html

    Comment by anonymous — August 26, 2007 #

93. “This is a free service (ad supported) and we’re getting a response albeit slow coming at times. How about we give the guys some more time to produce the goods and bring the fun back into Chat instead of bombarding them with flames and abuse.

    Think about it.

    Comment by Ian Kenefick — August 22, 2007″

    You’re a putz. It’s not a “free service”. Nothing is free. We PAY for the service as a group by purchasing the products advertised. If it were not for the chat, we’d not sit around here all day looking at those ads without getting anything in return. Maybe you would.. but WE WON’T.

    It’s not good business sense to piss off the people you’re hoping will respond to your ads, let alone make it nearly impossible to see the ads in first place (by the fact chat is practically broken).

    Comment by Elbo — August 27, 2007 #

94. Here here —

    I second, third and fourth the requests for a proper version for OS X. Ridiculous. Totally loosing me with this audio-less video conferencing. Poor response with over a year of development….no word out on the web to its status either. that is probably the most frustrating element. On the flip-side, for the switchers in the crowd — Trillian Astra will likely beat Y!Messenger in and out of beta.

    Don’t even get me started on Yahoo Calendar. Should merge Calendar with the Franklin Covey planners — Think they are equally dated for the predigital age.

    ‘boo-hiss’

    Comment by Eric — August 28, 2007 #

95. The main reason that I and many people do not wish to update our messenger programmes is the ignore/privacy option.

    On version 8 ignoring ppl not on my list means I can no longer see the text of ppl not on my list in the chatroom, and given the quantities of ppl coming to our chatroom I really do not want to even think about attempting to add them all to my friends list.

    But if I don’t ignore pms from ppl not on my list it means I am open to harassement from any idiot who wishes to pm and buzz me.

    So until you ppl fix that I am sticking with my version 7.

    Comment by Iri_Ani — August 31, 2007 #

96. I am having some some issues with yahoo Voice (PC-Phone) as well as (PC to PC), I have had great service since signing up in DEC, have renewed twice. Currently have run into a snag with Yim Vioce not being able to call out (after three seconds returns with: ” We’re very sorry. The Yahoo! Voice service could not make this call right now. Please try again a little bit later. ” ) to another computer or phone. I have uninstalled and reinstalled it twice as well as ensured the Windows Firewall is off and the Norton Firewall is “Allow” for YiM.

    again this problem just started last week, for no apparent reason.

    Windows System is XP w/ SP2.

    YiM (8.1.0.416), Module (8.0.0.1)

    Any Ideas Anyone? This is a real bummer….

    Comment by Yellow Ribbons — August 31, 2007 #

97. After a recent download of a YM upgrade my laptop will not go to any links in the chatroom including profiles, and any others. My older desk top has the same problem. What can be done about this?

    Comment by Henry — September 1, 2007 #

98. Why does a 3rd party chat client feel the need to edit my registry to put itself in the system tray to run in the background whenever my computer is restarted? I’ve been battling TSRs since the 286 days, PLEASE don’t make me fight this battle!!!! At least with quicktime you can delete/rename their qttask file.

    Comment by Old School John — September 2, 2007 #

99. Sarah,

    Do you know of a date or millenium we should be expecting this “Vista” version….been touting it since before Vista was released and here we are still with out the Vista version…

    Comment by VistaUser — September 2, 2007 #

100. I am just curious why cant messenger send a message to ignored ids so that they can stop stalking the users they were ignred by

     Comment by gr8user — September 3, 2007 #

101. It’s such a shame on Yahoo with delaying the Vista version. But, folks, did you notice, that where you have a woman managing PR stuff, everything goes down in flames ? We’ve got Sarah here as a product manager for Yahoo Messenger and on Creative Forums we’ve got Catherine as a forum manager. Everything is dissastrous on both sites. While Yahoo loses ground not releasing Yahoo Mess(enger) for Vista ready in ages, the folks at Creative cannot release a Windows Vista audio Driver for their audio cards. SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME !
     I wish I would never have to say this, but I think Yahoo Mess(enger) for Vista won’t be ready even after Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (that is first quarter of 2008)

     Comment by cosmin2007 — September 4, 2007 #

102. It’s such a shame on Yahoo with delaying the Vista version. But, folks, did you notice, that where you have a woman managing PR stuff, everything goes down in flames ? We’ve got Sarah here as a product manager for Yahoo Messenger and on Creative Forums we’ve got Catherine as a forum manager. Everything is dissastrous on both sites. While Yahoo loses ground not releasing Yahoo Mess(enger) for Vista ready in ages, the folks at Creative cannot release a Windows Vista audio Driver for their audio cards. SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME SHAME !
     I wish I would never have to say this, but I think Yahoo Mess(enger) for Vista won’t be ready even after Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (that is first quarter of 2008)

     Comment by cosmin2007 — September 4, 2007 #

103. Will it be better to uninstall first then re-install with the latest verion?

     Comment by Dog Clothing — September 4, 2007 #

104. i cant download yahoo messager but it wont work what should i do?

     Comment by miley — September 11, 2007 #

105. Yahoo messenger offers the most open chat service; yet, for months, it has not really worked, at least for me, a longtime user. I’m tired of Yahoo chat service. Should we try to kill it in hopes of getting something better? Is there there existing alternatives?

     Comment by Maxmarley — September 14, 2007 #

106. Yahoo messenger offers the most open chat service; yet, for months, it has not really worked, at least for me, a longtime user. I’m tired of Yahoo chat service. Should we try to kill it in hopes of getting something better? Is there there existing alternatives? I’ve already said this? Back when? It is still a problem.

     Comment by Maxmarley — September 14, 2007 #

107. YIM is starting to get really buggy and full of ads, so here’s a good solution if no one has posted it yet. Start over. Create a whole new chat program with the same interface BUT do what google does when you create a new account, verify by sending a text message to a cell phone so it’s an actual person and not just a bot program cause it’s obviously an easy security breach if all these bots are makin it through which shows that yahoo doesnt know how to program security to save their lives, doesnt matter whether or not its free a program that millions of people use should not suck this much ass!

     Comment by Prophet — September 14, 2007 #

108. Since updating to the new Yahoo Messenger, I have the following problems: 1) cannot play games – get a multiple java error; 2) cannot see some yahoo emotes; 3) at random times, lose the ability to see the type of other people in pm; 4) at random times, other people lose the ability to see me.

     Comment by drofpsych — September 15, 2007 #

109. thnx 4 this great programm

     Comment by emi — October 13, 2007 #

110. yeah when i download yahoo messenger it wont run when i click on it….

     Comment by joshy — October 22, 2007 #

111. i am facing a strange problem with yahoo messenger……i c people (with strange name,e.g- “+abheiuqyhjah” etc.) who actually does not exist in my friend list goes online and offline…..plz help…..i ve taken a screen shot for the same for your referal…….

     Comment by ronan — November 3, 2007 #

112. hi, i recently installed ym into my laptop but i noticed that it takes ages before i receive messages. what could possibly be wrong? my friends always get frustrated because i cannot receive the message on time. Hoping for your help guys. thanks

     Comment by honey — January 15, 2008 #

113. I have the same problem as “honey”..my IM friends say it takes forever for my comments to show up and vice versa, this is really maddening. I’ve tried to uninstall and reinstall, I have the 8.1.0.421 and what ever the “module” is, thats 8.0.0.1
     Thanks for any help with this problem

     Comment by trish — February 19, 2008 #

114. How can I set the Yahoo Messenger Chat screen to come up in the same location (say … top right hand corner of my monitor) each time I click on a contact’s name? Every contact’s chat window used to come up in different places all over my monitor. Then I had my computer reformatted, ended up installing the latest version of Yahoo Messenger and now every time I click on any contact’s name, the chat window pops up in the middle of my monitor somewhere. I would just like to have them ALL open in the same location so that I don’t have to move each chat screen every single time to a preferred location.

     Also I cannot seem to adjust the chat area where I type … it is very small.

     Comment by DB — April 24, 2008 #

115. Great Blog … post a question and not one response in six weeks.

     Comment by DB — June 7, 2008 #

116. I am trying to access all of my yahoo services.

     Comment by KI551122 — June 17, 2008 #

117. Why does my yahoo messenger take so long to download.. I ve been downloading for over 7 hrs , it gets to 3 or 4 or 5% n then skips to 100%, then it starts from 0% all over. I’m getting tired of waiting

     Comment by Franchise — July 27, 2008 #

118. i hate the yahoo msg 9 i want 8.1 back how can i get it back have been trying to for hours and all it shows is 9.

     Comment by mary nope — April 26, 2009 #

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