Comments on: Status message length

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:55:07 +0000

Badri,

You can remove or edit status messages by editing the preferences file (located in User/Library/Preferences and called “com.yahoo.messenger…(more)” using a tool such as PlistEditPro.

Look for the property list named “CustomStatusList”. An item preceded by ‘a-’ gives the available icon; ‘b-’ gives the busy icon.

Of course it’s probably easier to just make new ones in Yahoo!

By: schadow1

schadow1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:30:09 +0000

I recently noticed that all my status with a URL will not show up to friends while i can see it on my yahoo messenger.

I tried to log in to another computer and is still the same.

I logged in a different account but it works.

Is my account banned for status with URLs? Why? And how can this be fixed?

By: diana pop

diana pop — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:38:14 +0000

and now it stopped working again!!! can you believe it? i didn’t logout, same status as yesterday…

By: diana pop

diana pop — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:03:10 +0000

today it works! don’t know what happened, all of the sudden same status works. i’m never logging out now!

By: Molly

Molly — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:46:05 +0000

Hi!
I have the same problem as Diana Pop. I tried to put in my status the following link http://picasaweb.google.com/szaszmikolta/BangkokThailand03
but it didn’t work. I tried also Diana’s link the webshots one and it didn’t work for me either.
I’m using windows profesional and ym8.1 tried other versions of ym but without any luck. Please help me (us) to fix this. thanks

By: diana pop

diana pop — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:10:10 +0000

PS: on version 8.1 on win xp i got it to show that status once, but then i had to unplug the network cable and when i got back online, the same status didn’t work again. isn’t that weird? i know it sounds weird, but i swear it’s true.

By: diana pop

diana pop — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:55:00 +0000

tried it like you just said just now. still nothing.
it shows in my status bar as if it were ok, but in the list – nothing. of course i put a space, then i put many spaces. then i put even a new line (ctrl+enter) between them and nothing. there has to be a way, though. because other links work.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:59:15 +0000

Hi dianapop,

I think the issue is definitely where you place the text you want to be linked. Be sure to put it in front, e.g. “irina http://family.webshots.com/album/562362512zLBREA” and be sure there’s a space between irina and the URL. When I tried it the other way, it definitely didn’t work (friend didn’t see it).

Sarah Bacon

By: diana pop

diana pop — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:27:07 +0000

hi sara
it’s sooooo frustrating! i tried again both ways, still no status change. i don’t understand though why other links work.
i tried other sites (a link to imdb.com – no www – works) or other random www URLs and they are fine. how can such strange behavior occur? but then i tried your webshot link too and that didn’t work either.
maybe it’s a location thing? users logging in from certain countries are not allowed certain status message links?

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:20:10 +0000

Hi again diana pop,

Thanks for the additional info. I put in that link with irina at the end and it worked fine for me on 9.0. “irina” showed up in my status as a hyperlink and it clicked out to your photo page. Did you also try putting irina first, followed by the URL? That’s the standard way to insert a linked status (see http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2007/04/13/whats-your-status/).

Sarah Bacon