Comments on: Winner in the About.com IM Awards

By: LB

LB — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:54:59 +0000

Rubbish. Yahoo has been destroying itself for years. Chat is ridiculous. Giving yourself a pat on the back for chat is loathsome.

One of the last nice things about yahoo was the music rating system and personal stations.

So thank you for dumping all of that, along with everyone’s old profile, so there is no reason whatsoever to bother with Yahoo anymore.

Good luck with chasing everyone else’s business model.

By: Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:14:52 +0000

You guys are, truly, doing a marvelous job with YM for Mac (Beta 4 is fantastic), but I think I am not alone in wanting some of the PC-enabled functions such as photo-sharing and the like. iChat is okay, but I’ve always used Yahoo as my *preferred* messenger and would like to have it at least match the Windows counterpart.

By: Lacie!

Lacie! — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:02:53 +0000

I don’t believe that Yahoo won the Best Chat rooms. I want to know where they are??? Every single room in chat is overrun with bots and spam, or are being run by manical booters that love to spoil a room just for fun. All the complaining, reporting for abuse and asking for moderated chat has gone on deaf ears…the engineers are too busy adding fancy features to Messenger.

I’ve gotten so frustrated with chat the way it is, I have finally just gone to another chat client. One which is moderated and has allowed me to relax, meet people and avoid all the frustrations and drama, bots, spam and idiots of Yahoo chat.

By: BJ Dorval

BJ Dorval — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:06:02 +0000

Yahoo chat rooms as the best experience on line for chat? What a joke. We used to have a pleasant entertaining private chat room every evening for 5 years until some snot nosed knucklehead at Yahoo removed our ability to create a private chat room each evening. We had over 300 members from around the globe who would line up each evening to enter our 30 seat night club and we had spectacular parties every night. We had 5 couples who met in our chat room and who eventually got married. On one occasion we had an international memorial service for one of our dear members who passed away from breast cancer. At present Yahoo chat rooms are nothing more that a porn bot delivery system for their porn advertisers and this sophmoric claim by Yahoo that they are the best chat room experience is based on this voting is ludicrous. Anyone who knows anything about on line chatting knows better.

By: ihap said

ihap said — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:18:35 +0000

Congr’s but still not true, booting programs’ editor are much better and smart the Yahoo Comp. crew !!!
up to now, YAhoo stand astonished in front of booters and bots.
they have faked Administrator in the rooms, doing nothing, just a faked presence too, to say ” we monitor our chat rooms”. Still Yahoo is a commercial company looking for money, that’s it !!

By: Kawa

Kawa — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:20:25 +0000

I don’t really know how did you win those titles…
In my opinion, version 9 is the worst ever. It crashes a lot, windows shutdown can’t really shutdown from time to time, and the only thing that hangs is the messenger, it takes ages to load, overloaded with flash ads (like the yahoo search page) which causes serious processor overload…and for some reason, nobody seems to care…
As long as business is good…I can see your point. The only reason that I still use it, is because of my many contacts, and voice is not yet implemented to work with Live Messenger. The constant errors when trying to change contact details is driving me nuts. I’ve read that it’s because of service upgrade, how many years will take?
Thank you.

By: 1n50mn1ack

1n50mn1ack — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:10:23 +0000

I had never used any other messenger than yahoo, so I can’t tell if this one is the best, but i can say that the interface of yahoo messenger for vista is far more practical to use then the messenger 9!Too bad it was never finished.I am very disappointed!

By: mal_igned

mal_igned — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:19:26 +0000

BEST CHATROOMS?!?!?!?

You gotta be kidding. That HAD to be Yahoo employees stuffing the ballot.

Sound always failing. Cams that don’t connect. Random disconnects. (Not boots.) More bots than people in rooms. Suddenly logged out of chat.

What a sham award. I’d laugh if I didn’t remember how chatrooms USED to be.

By: Saurabh

Saurabh — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:53:34 +0000

Best things about yahoo messenger are very expressive smileys. Pingbox and audibles are recent innovative and cool features, but probably not used as widely. Everything else is more or less the same it was in 1998 with just new and resource heavy skins. Things like chat rooms and offline messages were flawless and clean back in 1998, since then they have been changed only to introduce new bugs in the original code…

Nevertheless, not due to these reasons, but its about time yahoo wrote messenger client in JAVA from scratch, so that it can be run on any device including desktops, laptops, netbooks and various new handheld devices. Semiconductor industry is advancing rapidly and we now have processors capable of running web browsers and full fledged IM clients on hand held devices. What is different though with handheld devices is that very few of them have Windows OS that yahoo has been relying on so far. They have Android, mac, linux, symbian and many other proprietary and open source OSes. JAVA works on all of them…

If yahoo does not take this step now, they will be left behind. Google made the best search engine while back and left its competitors baffling to improve their search engines. Thus diverting yahoo’s attention, they have slowly started adding all services that yahoo has been offering since its conception. I am not sure if yahoo realizes this yet, but google has been copying yahoo secretly and it is creating an impression that baffled yahoo is now copying google. Mentioning few of the things google copied from yahoo are finance.google.com, background themes in gmail, documents.google.com is a copy of briefcase.yahoo.com but yahoo never payed attention to it and never cared to improve it since 1998 untill google took their idea and took it to the next level.

By: Cliff

Cliff — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:20:32 +0000

I voted too! Yahoo IM is indeed the best around.