The nuisance of using Yahoo! Messenger
July 20th, 2004 Leave a comment Visited 80 times, 1 so far today
Of all the instant messengers out in the market, I prefer Yahoo! the most. The reason being simple, it works. But well, having used it for so long, I have got used to certain things, which unfortunately Yahoo! is making me change. Here are some of the nuisance value created by the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger.
- The Download Size: It has apparently grown with every version. Considering software like Opera Browser packs in so much stuff in just 3.5 Megs, a chat client for 4.7 Megs is just pathetic.
- The Speed: Latest version in addition to introducing funky looking skins has made the software so bulky that it crawls on slow computers. Unless you switch to the classic skin, it mostly remains terrible to operate.
- The Desktop Space: I have always preferred to have the smallest possible window for the messengers coz I have many of them open at any given time. Yahoo! Messenger in the latest avatar keeps a bulk of space empty at the bottom part where in generally Content Tabs appear. For god sake, let me have the power to resize my Messenger window!
- Displaced Options: Earlier I could access the profile of a user using 2 keys, now its more complex as the options to view profiles and webcam have been buried another level deep to Contact > Contact Options. Bad, considering there are no shortcuts predefined. Even bad that I can’t specify manual shortcuts. What generation we living in? Also, I cannot find any option to join the current user I am talking to in a chat room. Maybe I am missing something.
- False Buzzing: They added the buzz button to the toolbar. Earlier I found it fun, now it’s a nuisance. I want to click on the IMvironment tab and I accidentally buzz the user. I cannot recall how many times I accidentally buzzed people for no particular reason.
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August 4th, 2004 at 06:53 am
If you’re interested try Gaim
http://gaim.sourceforge.net
August 4th, 2004 at 04:17 pm
i use it all the time. :) esp when i have to login to icq/aim. but it does not work with yahoo cam. :)
May 20th, 2005 at 08:51 am
My yahoo messenger won’t allow me to change or get into the avatars to change or delete the display image.
August 19th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
Yes it sucks!
I have used Yahoo Messenger from its begining. I was a fanatik fan of it but now I just can’t handle it! I cannot support this stupid interface. I am a programmer and I am sure I can do a better interface for it.
It is unbelievable that I need to wait several (SEVERAL) seconds when I dbl click on an username in order to speak with him until the window appears. I have a Pentium 4 processor with 512 RAM with fresh WinXP SP2, but I think the delay comes from some internet related stuff. (altough I have 512k guaranteed bandwidth).
I fear that the next versions of YM will be worse! I don’t want to get nervous each day because of a stupid interface.
And.. YES! the stupid BUZZ button is put on a stupid place!
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:02 pm
Messenger 7 seemed to keep taking control of my PC and freezing everything up, now I am no techy but the earlier version NEVER presented me with a problem the yahoo guys have just got it all wrong and now it is too late to fix it, deleted it from my pc and everything is fine again, now just got to up-load version 6 from somewhere, typical “POWERS THAT BE” idiotic decision : IT ISN’T BROKEN SO WHY THE HELL F@@K IT UP ?????
September 14th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
vesion 7 sucks/it locks up is too large a file and yahoo help does nothing! it exposed my real name to chat friends and that was not fixable,like it or not you dont always want people from around the globe knowing your identity! and could not find anyway to get help/it slowed my penium machine way down! called yahoo/might as well call ebay or the pope! the earlier version was fine! and now i cant find it! is there someone out there that can tell me how to get my old yahoo messenger back?
September 21st, 2005 at 11:25 am
also one more freaking thing, which i freaking hate about this version is that when i tell it to sign in automatically when my computer turn on, it just pops up and stay there until i close. god i freaking hate this everytime. somebody tell me how to fix it, i want it minimized when it starts. i know in msn messenger there is an option telling it to minimize when it starts but i just cant find it on this feaking version.
September 23rd, 2005 at 09:45 pm
I thought yahoo had the best foolproof, stealth setting. I was wrong. You can easily find out if anyone is invisible or offline. Simply invite the person to a conference. Even if he cancels you get a message that he has declined to chat. So you know that he is online. Anyone has any fix for this?
September 27th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
yes 7 sucks with stupid ringing phone in pms. Doesn’t even seem to work, people sound like chipmunks. Yes, I’m looking to redownload 6, not easy to find.
September 28th, 2005 at 01:16 pm
hey all u maniacs requiring old yahoo messengers…try this link……….trust me on this that IT WORKS…….rem me in ur prayers….
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=yahoo
October 7th, 2005 at 03:26 pm
Version 7.0 like all the other comments is just plain awful. I have had to reinstall it 3 times already and I have only signed onto it like 6 times. I am going back to 6.0 if i can find it.
October 15th, 2005 at 06:09 pm
I have been a long time avid user of Yahoo Instant Messenger but this new version 7.0 really sucks. I have complained to Customer Service regarding the fact that when I am offline I do not receive any Instant Messages even though the Archive feature is turned on. No fix to this yet. I also had an incident where my full last name was exposed in e-mail per Yahoo and it only should have been my User Name! Has anyone received a fix on this from Yahoo? If there is any way possible to get the old verion of Yahoo IM back, please let me know.
October 15th, 2005 at 06:12 pm
I am a long time avid user of Yahoo Instant Messenger also and have had a problem with their newest version of Yaho IM with Voice, Version 7.0 as I can not receive Instant Messages when I am logged off and never had that problem before this version. I have complained to Yahoo Customer Service and reply is they will look into it. That was two months ago. I’m missing messages and like another person out there, Yahoo exposed my entire last name in e-mail replys when it should have been showing only my User Name! Does anyone have a solution to block your entire last name since Yahoo has screwed up their website and has not corrected these two matters? I would love to get back the old Verion of Yahoo IM. Is it possible? I’ve tried but so far, no luck finding an old link . I’d appreciate any possible solutions for these problems.
October 30th, 2005 at 09:19 pm
every since i have dl this new version of yahoo ,, i can not recieve my offline message’s that are very important to me and also when i check the messages archieve to see if they are there by any chance then my yahoo box goes blank and stay’s that way and i have to click on ctrl and alt and delete.. i have had these problems ever since i do the new version….
November 3rd, 2005 at 06:19 pm
If you have a lot of contacts then probably your message archive is very big, thus it takes time for it to load. It may take a few minutes to display the message archive once you clicked the Show message archive option and in this time yahoo is hanged, but if you let it finish, it will work.
I have the same problem with offline messages. They don’t show up anywhere… hope it will be fixed, I suppose there are server problems.
November 3rd, 2005 at 06:25 pm
Actually… reinstalled yahoo messenger then started it and restarted it and got all my offline messages back :)
November 4th, 2005 at 06:53 pm
Hi guys… Is there any way to retrieve back the offline messages?? I logged in via web based yahoo msngr and all my offlines went blank inclunding a most important one.. Is it stored in server or backed up?? any chance for me to read it now?? all helps are appreciated….Thanks
November 20th, 2005 at 08:18 am
I have a pc with a web cam whenever I try to have anyone with a Mac see it they can not is there anyway that they can?
November 21st, 2005 at 11:00 am
please help can not get connected to my yahoo messenger, i sign in says it is connecting and bam not connected i have installed newest and reinstalled then tried old faithful the older version, i hate the newer, but i can not even get that to connect. any help out there please help, loved the old way
December 1st, 2005 at 11:42 am
i am able to send measseges to my friends online but am not able to receive messages from them. is anyone there facing similar kind of problems? pls help me out of this guys.im using yahoo msngr7.0 version and have reinstalled it thrice since this problem has begun.
December 3rd, 2005 at 11:51 am
Happening over last couple of weeks. I login to friend using Yahoo Messenger. After about 10 minutes of trading messages satisfactorily, mine are no longer being received by friend. I still get his. (Most frustrating!) He logs off and then logs on again. My previously- forwarded messages arrive as if they were sent off-line. Everything is ok for a few minutes, then the problem reoccurs! Both using Messenger with Voice Ver 7. Anyone got any ideas?
December 8th, 2005 at 05:20 am
David, same thing happening here too. Use YIM for about 25-30 minutes then it clogs like a blocked toilet. Stays that way for about another 25-30 minutes then all the messages come down in one go. If I log out and log back in before that 30 minutes has expired and YIM unclogs the missing messages are there as offline messages. Also, this seems to be linked with no alerts and sounds of people coming on and offline and the lack of the line under the type window that lets me know if someone is typing a message.
So, I can use YIM for half an hour then not for half an hour then can for half an hour and so on. It’s driving me insane. I have told Yahoo and they are “working on the problem”.
January 14th, 2006 at 09:58 am
Can you have two versions of yahoo messenger installed on your computer at the same time…..and run both?
January 15th, 2006 at 02:43 pm
ok so as far as the people having problems with yahoo “geting clogged like a toilet” as it was put…I believe thats actually a computer issue not yahoo technically even though it is yahoos fault. only time i have that problem is if i have my cam on and am viewing a cam at the same time so i figure it has to be this new yahoo just uses to many resources. I think my biggest issue is that if you use an older version they try to get you to upgrade every time you log in and some older versions are no longer supported. when my wife was out of state for a while she had some issues and i sent her ver. 5.6 and she said that it wouldnt work cause she got a msg saying it wasnt supported anymore. I beta tested both ver. 6.0 and 7.0 and it turns out that yahoo doesnt listen to the feedback that they ask you to provide. i’m about to just stop using it completely. they took out the follow user and join user options in 6.0 and its just getting steadily worse. they made it a pain in the @ss to even view a profile anymore. and as far as those looking to run more than one yahoo a a time there is a program called magic login that will allow up to 6 at once but it doesnt work with anything past version 5.6 i think. I know for sure it dont work with 7.0 If anyone finds a version of ML that works with the newer versions a link would be greatly appriciated.
January 22nd, 2006 at 09:47 pm
I am tired of my real name showing up on instant messages. Is there a way I can delete my real name …..do not want everyone knowing what it is
January 24th, 2006 at 01:38 am
im not gettin the message of yahoo voice required enabled n hence while installing i have problems n i dnt get yahoo messenger icon on the icon
January 31st, 2006 at 08:11 am
I am getting so frustrated. I cannot display my image on msngr7, When I go to prefrences it askes if you want to share your display image and when I click on “share my image” and then ok. It does not change. Im ready to scream!!I have contacted yahoo and they said to empty out my yahoo msngr cache, did that, Nothing! What can I do????
February 1st, 2006 at 09:57 pm
I think we should all start a low-level idea of not using Yahoo! anymore at all. My real name was also released onto the net and was a personal and career risk.
Let’s all stop using Yahoo.
February 7th, 2006 at 06:27 pm
Yahoo Messenger goes off every 20 minutes. Why is this so?
February 21st, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Let’s not forget about a strange message “You where disconected because you have logged in on a different machine”.
This made me to change my password but soon I realized that this is a stupid bug of YM which occurs when I have problems with my internet connection.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:33 am
I’m having a problem installing Yahoo 7.0. I uninstalled my previous 6.0 version. I downloaded the installation program & ran it. The install appeared to be successful but did not load the application. I tried re-installing a few times with the same effect. Any ideas? Thanks.
March 14th, 2006 at 07:41 am
The clogging issue isn’t actually Yahoo’s fault. I use Gaim and thought that the clogging was Gaim doing it (or the use off too much bandwidth from other programs) so, i just installed yahoo, closed out anything that uses the net thinkin, everythings better, then, i’m talkin to my friend and it clogs for a couple minutes.
March 25th, 2006 at 07:23 pm
is it possible to retrieve the offline messages incase the system got switched off while before i read the messages. do the messages get stored in any place in the harddisk. if any one knows pls let me know.
March 28th, 2006 at 04:51 am
To remove your real name that is your first and last name from being exposed…..
….. Click on Contacts > Contact Details.
Odd that this info isn’t listed in the Yahoo Help.
I was irrate to find Yahoo did this on its own.
March 28th, 2006 at 05:02 am
Forgot to add.. Just remove your name and enter anything you like in the nickname field in Contacts > Contact Details
April 1st, 2006 at 12:40 am
I also stopped receiving my offline messages when I went to 7. I have now upgraded to the beta 7.5 and I will say that Yahoo is not listening to this RSS Feed. The Messenger size is getting bigger, and while they added options to remove certain bars, the ones we find most problematic are worse.
But I will say that I still do not receive my offline messages, AND, it is NOT version 7 doing this. My girlfriend signs on to the same PC and the same messenger, she gets her offlines. This is a yahoo account/server problem somewhere that is causing this.
I just wish Yahoo Customer Service were more reachable and responsive, and well – caring. But free services are not high on their priority list for support.
April 3rd, 2006 at 02:02 am
oooooooooopsssssssss I screwed up.. the previous if you add in your own name to messenger
To change your real name to anything else
Messenger > My contact Details
April 10th, 2006 at 03:30 pm
Hiya pals, I got a problem my self, but then, while i attempt to solve your problems, can you al so suggest ways to solve mine? I have an old version of yahoo messenger, actually Version 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0, but, I’ll tell you something, i’v u’re not good at answering pop-up questions, you’ll end up upgrading to 7.0 or what ever will come after it. My problem is that i dont recieve offline messages. I’m wondering what the problem is. Can any one suggest the probable reason(s). For the Version 6, I can send it via mail to who ever is interested. Send a mail with the Subject “Y-messenger Version 6″ I may not read any other mail with a diffrent subject. State if you want it Zipped or sent as a plain executable. Note that you may not be able to download a plain attaced exacutable if u’re using some firewall softwares. My contact addy is bukyekaiko {at} yahoo(.)com. Hope Yahoo comes to our rescue.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
yes,im using new version of yahoo messenger with voice beta,kinda sucks coz i can’t view profiles and help button seems not working either,im trying to contact yahoo on help but not working,im pissed,can u pease do something about it yahoo,…
October 1st, 2006 at 05:59 am
Yahoo servers alloted for the YIM are the main reason for the constant signing out problems. They are allowing too many users ..much more than their servers can handle. So whenever a new user signs in .. a logged in user gets logged out.
Screw Yahoo…use meebo.com for chatting
October 4th, 2006 at 12:43 am
When I start up Yahoo Messenger 7.0, everything else stops, and my system resources drop from 91% to 68%. I loved the older version of yahoo but this is horrendous.
New yahoo = crap. ‘Nuff said.
July 14th, 2007 at 07:38 pm
At first, I’m enjoying using yahoo messenger 7 because we used it for communications for our relatives abroad. But after a month, I find it hard to signed in which makes me paranoid and feeling disturbed. I searched everywhere from the net for answers, suggests me for downloads; even the newest version of YM8. But YM8 cannot be installed to my pc(i don’t know why). After tons of searches, I found this article/comments section and based from all of your personal experiences, it leads me to download an older version of it and then I tried, and it worked!!! Thanks to all of you guys!!!This helps.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:23 am
now here this one yahoo messenger has gone to the captcha login what a messed up thing it has put off the worse version of its life verison 8 now the old versions do not want to work at all in chat rooms will on private chats. you can get old ones at http://www.oldapps.com
February 5th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Ok wth? I log on and my internet goes off for a few seconds, I sign back in and my offline messages aren’t there!! My offline messages are really important to me, so i really want them back. Plus I try to stop yahoo from logging myself in immediately but it wont work. Any ideas?