Talk:Yahoo! Messenger/Archives/2016

YM on Windows 10
I may be wrong, but has Yahoo also joined Skype as their option for video chat? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.30.40.147 (talk) 16:40, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

How to get Yahoo Messanger
Navigate to http://messenger.yahoo.com and click on the download button. Arundhati Bakshi 14:41, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

History
THERE NEEDS TO BE A HISTORY OF YAHOO OR AT LEAST THE RELEASE DATE OF THE ORIGINAL VERSION AND IM LEANING TOWARDS 1996 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.195.132.253 (talk • contribs) 23:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. There is absolutely nothing about the removal of the ability for Yahoo Users to create custom rooms. Certainly a major event, knocked out virtually all of Yahoo's dedicated roleplaying community. -Specusci —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.165.54 (talk • contribs) 06:58 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Yep. I'd suggest tying it into the abandon-ware Yahoo Messenger for non-windows users but I don't want to make it seem shrill. The reason why it happened is the continued tight integration with Microsoft. As a consequence of dropping Java chats, non-Windows users cannot participate in group chats. There's a business strategy at work however clumsy. Non-Windows users are not good enough to look at our ads seems to be a strange way to run a business, but so it goes.


 * I know that Yahoo! Messenger was created in july 1999, because it is documented in some places of the web, but I can't find no proof of it. Nyco 19:38, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

In the old days (1998-1999) messenger was called "yahoo pager". Even today some dlls on windows have pager name in them.

There was a valid reason (according to Yahoo) why they knocked out the create custom rooms. Their reasoning was this: Many users (many underage users) were creating pornographic custom rooms. These rooms were displaying advertising from virtually all major corporations that paid for advertising on Yahoo. Those advertisers were contacted by a newspaper reporter who did a news piece on this. Those advertisers obviously had no comment to the newspaper reporter. But they did have some major comments to Yahoo, which was pressured to shut the chat rooms down. Instead of shutting the chat rooms down, they did a major revamp of it. The revamp of the chat feature did not include the create custom rooms which was part of the major problem with underage people taking part in the cybersex area of the chat. Yahoo continually revamped their chat until their advertisers were content that they were not advertising on a virtual porn site (which at one point Yahoo chat was considered because of the unregulated chat rooms) 74.132.47.144 (talk) 23:52, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Web Messenger
what happened to the web based version of yahoo messenger for people who don't or can't install the full version?220.233.197.58 08:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

90% of Yahoo Chat is porn bots
Not even a mention of the infinite bots that exist in the chat rooms?

The many lawsuits that revolved around minors being sexually harassed or meeting up with strangers? webcams of minors, plenty of adults exposing themselves to underage kids.

To catch a predator? hellllloooo all the predators used yahoo.

Bot and sexual predators 2 topics Id like to see

chris

This is not correct ..We use this service and we should not blame it..

Joe

What do you mean not correct? Check it, I use the service all the time, blame?


 * I had a porn bot contact me. I looked up the whois on the web site and then I went to anywho.com and did a reverse lookup and pretended to be the police. I was like you are solicitating porno to my 12-year old son. I told him that solicitating sex to minors is a serious crime which you can to prison for. I am pretty sure he disbanded cybergirls.
 * eternalsleeper

and not to mention that pretending to be the police is a crime in itself. and what the hell are parents letting their children on these ADULT ROOMS anyway? They have legal claimers that show you must be this old to enter these rooms and that user experiences may change when venturing into them...guess your not smart enough to realize that and go pretending to be the police —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.35.80.48 (talk) 06:55, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Not sure when, but Yahoo has an additional logon criteria added. This is to verify that you are indeed, human. An aberrated picture of some combination of letters/numbers now appears as part of the Yahoo chat room logon process. This has helped a lot to keep the flies/pornbots way down.

Dan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.19.132.66 (talk) 21:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Yahoo Messenger Chat
I dunno if/where I can add this in the article, but it should be noted that chat has indeed gotten way out of hand. My only reference so far is my own experience, and the official blog listed here, as well as here. This is basically a plea by Chet Simpson, the creator or ytunnel begging for improvements in its chat rooms. --Ben414 02:23, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

How often are exploits for viruses found?
The article is incomplete saying that they can send a message, and somehow exploit vulnerabilities to give you a virus even if you didn't click on anything. How often does that happen, and does it still happen? Its slanderous to make it sound like it is still going on, if they haven't had a problem in five years.  D r e a m Focus  03:33, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.38.76.194 (talk) 17:36, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Availability
From the introduction I read "As of March 27, 2016, the only supported clients are the Android, iOS and web browser clients. The legacy Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris clients are not supported anymore, and their servers will begin shutting down on August 5, 2016, with the clients no longer working by August 31, 2016. It turned out that the servers for the legacy clients were finally shut down sometime between the mid-morning & early afternoon hours east coast time on September 1, 2016, resulting in the legacy desktop clients no longer being able to access their buddy/contact lists."

I installed Yahoo! Messenger 11.5.0.228 a long time ago for chatting. I recently tried to log back into it but I can't. I have a Windows 7 Home Premium in my computer. I assume I cannot get into it because the software has been discontinued (this is how I read "legacy Windows ... not supported anymore". However, I can see chat contacts from within Yahoo! Mail and if I access https://messenger.yahoo.com. Can somebody comment regarding availability of Yahoo! Messenger at this point?

ICE77 (talk) 17:03, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
 * From what I'm aware of, after a friend of mine showed it to me, Yahoo has indeed made it so that the legacy desktop messenger no longer connects to the server, resulting in its contact list no longer being accessible (it is currently unknown as to whether or not a person's chat history is still available through the legacy desktop messenger). Since then, Yahoo has released a new desktop messenger at https://messenger.yahoo.com/download; however, it is only supported by newer versions of Microsoft Windows, meaning that if you use an older version (like XP), the new desktop messenger will NOT install. Now, besides releasing it as a desktop client, Yahoo has chosen to have the new messenger accessible from both the Yahoo Mail interface at https://mail.yahoo.com, as well as through a web messenger interface at https://messenger.yahoo.com. Those two connect to the sever for the new messenger. 2602:304:CEBF:8650:EDD4:B298:236F:7BD0 (talk) 06:14, 18 November 2016 (UTC)