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Legacy Yahoo Messenger App Being Retired (pcmag.com)
Reader Irishman writes: Looks like August 5, 2016 is the last day for people clinging to the old desktop version of Yahoo Messenger. A new version is supposedly in the works but otherwise, it will be the mobile app or the web version. From a PCMag report: According to a new announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won't be able to use it to chat with your friends. Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you currently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they'll be going away on August 5 as well. You'll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you really need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends.
who cares?
When the human body goes into shock from blood loss, the first reaction is to shut off blood flow to the extremities so there is enough blood left to keep the brain and core going. I see this announcement as analogous for Yahoo, except it's "cash shock" at work.
Back to ICQ I guess.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Did Netcraft confirm this?
Logged in to icq.com to change my icq password and suddenly it reported a compromised account (i guess because it never saw the ip before) and required me to add a mobile number to the account. If i were an attacker, i now not only had the old password (and can change it to a new one), but would even have added my number as recovery option. So i guess security isn't the issue here, they want to collect phone numbers.
And without adding it, i can login with a client, but sending a message returns, that the account is locked.
Thankfully it was only an old account i never used much and not my primary one.
Anything but "Skype for business" - which is probably one of the causes of the spectular growth of Slack.
You would think that chat is a solved problem by now. Even Sametime in Lotus Notes is okay. But Skype... plain terrible. It's as if they wanted to cater to the kewl crowd by giving it a texting look & feel, but it just sucks.
lucm, indeed.
I work in physical commodities trading. Think cargoes of fuel, grain, derivatives, etc. 90% of my deals are closed via Yahoo, either directly with counterparties or via brokers. Brokers "flash" obscure quotes for things such as Eurobob/WTI spreads, ethanol, calendar spread swaps, truckloads of X ready to go to Y, etc. Not sure if there are any profesions who rely on Yahoo as much as mine. (Incidentally, a lot of guys in other markets use AOL, mostly natural gas).
You would think that chat is a solved problem by now.
It is solved. The problem is that the solution turned out to be Facebook Messenger.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
It's kinda nice that no one users YM to be social. Makes it easier to tell if an employee is just slacking off. I think slack is a much better option for businesses though.
Yes. Also slashdotting is back...maybe...netcraft confirmed that too.
Om, nomnomnom...
Pidgin still works fine. I just checked and my account is still connected. Do I lose my pidgin connection soon? I have 0 buddies on yahoo so I do not really care. I just use it to keep the old screen name active.
AOL doesn't have enough market share to be a bully so I am guessing that will be my new primary chat network (until they go under or get bought out
Verizon already acquired AOL.
Wow. Just wow.
I have over 500 contacts in my Y!M list, out of which I am usually chatting with about 30 of them.
Yahoo Web messenger is horrible. Generally speaking, any messenger that loads in a browser window is horrible.
I'm wondering what are the alternatives...
Facebook is a total no-go. Whatsapp requires a valid phone number, many people I know don't want to provide their phone number just for a chat service. Google Talk would be the best alternative I can think of.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Google talk has a decent phone based chat but their desktop software is web based and annoying. There are some plugins for Pidgin but they don't work as well as the official software.
Anything but "Skype for business" - which is probably one of the causes of the spectular growth of Slack.
You would think that chat is a solved problem by now. Even Sametime in Lotus Notes is okay. But Skype... plain terrible. It's as if they wanted to cater to the kewl crowd by giving it a texting look & feel, but it just sucks.
Gonna have to disagree with you there. Sametime is hands down the worst chat system I've ever used. We have used it for years at my office. Everyone's taken to calling it sometime because sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Yahoo messenger isn't great but at least it usually works.
I guess this app needs to be killed because it doesn't harvest the user's phonebook and telephone number (among other things).
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Name one piece of software or platform that sees widespread, gen pop use that doesn't have some sort of privacy or security issue.
Windows 10!
lucm, indeed.