Yahoo Changes User Profiles, To Massive Outrage

Wiseleo writes "Yahoo decided to massively screw up their entire userbase by changing all user profiles to blank. No warning, no automated way to get data back, and other unwanted changes. The blog has such choice quotes as 'We know this has been a rough transition for some of you and, and are committed to helping you use, understand, and (hopefully) enjoy your new profile,' and, 'We also know lots of you worked hard on your old profiles and want your data. If you feel like you're missing data, we've saved a copy of your old profile (and alias) and our Customer Care team can retrieve this information. You won't, however, be able to revert back to your old profile format, but you will be able to get any data that you think is missing. To do this, please go here to contact Customer Care.' There were 850 comments posted, all negative, on the first day. There are hundreds more today. There is even more outrage on the Yahoo Messenger blog."

Comments

Let's move on now...

[Anonymous Coward]

Can we get Facebook and MySpace wiped clean, too?

Re:Let's move on now...

[NfoCipher]

You'd need to nuke it from orbit.. It's the only way to be sure.

Re:Yahoo still matters?

[Mad Merlin]

Actually, it's sunday.

Ya who?

[symbolset]

Are they not dead yet? Next you'll tell me AOL is still around.

Microsoft Buyout

[Anonymous Coward]

They're just practicing for when Microsoft buys them out. Microsoft has a long history of losing user data.

Re:FIRST POST

[Anonymous Coward]

I wasn't even aware that people actually USED their Yahoo profiles.

Re:FIRST POST

[AmberBlackCat]

A bunch of lies you told about yourself?

What changed?

[SL Baur]

I wasn't even aware that people actually USED their Yahoo profiles.

I just logged in for the first time in a couple of months and did not see much change, other than increased clutter on the screens getting me to yahoo mail.

What changed? Am I supposed to be outraged too? Inquiring minds want to know!

Re:What changed?

[slughead]

850 angry comments can't be wrong. You are currently feeling rage.

Re:What changed?

[Provocateur]

all the crazies who roll out a new persona with every new boy/girlfriend,
check

bad hair day,
check

full moon,
check

EMO issue,
check

Hey, you guys get your own stalker. I've found mine already.

Re:What changed?

[infonography]

yeah but it was only three people making those posts.

What really happened

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually this was part of the deal with Google. Google said: "We'll fuck up iGoogle, if you fuck up Yahoo! Profiles. Just wait a few days to make it look like a co-incidence!"

It's all part of the Zion Catholic 9/11 7/July Conspiracy by the Royal Family to take over the world, in order to secure a monopoly on Cheese production. WaKE UP SHEEPLE!!!111!one

Re:What I want to know...

[dricci]

Beta isn't a trend, it's a lifestyle!

Re:FIRST POST

[morgan_greywolf]

Myself? Oh, you mean my made-up character. let's see. I'm a 15-year-old bi-sexual girl with a 38DD, I remember that, but um, what um, I can't find the picture, and I can't remember what activities I was supposed to be into, other than group orgies... sh***....

Oh well, guess I'll just create a new one.

Re:Five Nines, please, on my free service.

[Lemmy Caution]

Yahoo loses money on every customer, but they make up for it in volume!

59: OUT 966, 0

[Anonymous Coward]

or was that 59: POKE 966, 0?

I better go call the professor, the symptoms are appearing again even after the deep C therapy.

Re:FIRST POST

[jcgf]

Well, what if you forget the truth?

Re:FIRST POST

[Goldberg's Pants]

Clearly someone who has never been married.

"No, dear, you're wrong. We've had that portable DVD player for ages and you just never noticed. I told you I was buying it. I showed you it when I got it."

That is an actual conversation I had with my wife recently. Only thing is I WASN'T LYING! I genuinely DID tell her I was buying it, and DID show it to her, AND have used it multiple times in front of her. The other day she finds the box. "Why do we have a portable DVD player box?"

*facepalm*

Re:FIRST POST

[mad flyer]

So my wife have a sister as dumb as herself... good to know... I bet she can't cook either, and the kitchen look like Tchechnya everytime she try to make coffee...?

That's what you get....

[bruce_the_loon]

for insisting on 38DD blondes. There is a fixed brain to boob ratio and it can't be violated.

Re:That's what you get....

[Mistshadow2k4]

There is a fixed brain to boob ratio and it can't be violated.

BULLSHIT. What an outrightedly sexist and utterly wrong thing to say. I dare you to even attempt to prove it. Simply put, I know you can't, no more than I can prove that men with large penises all have IQs less than a hundred.

Re:That's what you get....

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm, no spelling mistakes, no misuse of apostrophes ... I assume your IQ is above 100. ;)

Re:Five Nines, please, on my free service.

[YourExperiment]

People said stuff like that to Apple and Atari as well :)

So you're saying Yahoo has a 50% chance to pull through?

Re:Yahoo still matters?

[SnowZero]

Last I checked, although you can customize your yahoo page, you can't remove the F***ING HOROSCOPE! That actively pisses me off every time I set eyes on the page.

You're just saying that because you are an Aquarius -- so eccentric and passionately unwilling to fit in with everyone else.

Re:Yahoo still matters?

[Anonymous Coward]

Translation:

Yahoo is absolute shit because I don't use it, and I'm clearly the most important person in the universe. Everyone else is a worthless fucking peon not fit to lick my boots.

You're welcome.

Re:I get what you are saying..

[John Hasler]

Apparently the Yahoo profile is terribly, terribly important.