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I like it but the latest version boots me off ALOT

While Yahoo updates their messenger regularly providing a need to download the newest version, they do a good job at getting more features for their users. Easy to use, full of emoticons, a wide range of options, and very popular. It also works with your Yahoo e-mail account or you can get a new one. Very simple!

Here goes my post again, once previously deleted:

Yahoo Messenger has perhaps been the best ever Messenger in Internet. Unfortunately it has turned into a can of worms full of Trojans, it took my service down twice eight days at a time, I emailed Yahoo about it but as usual they don't listen to their users who are supposed to be some kind of a brain dead group of people who are to be bossed around, insulted and ill treated by the Yahoo staff. They denied the Messenger was full of Trojans, when they could no longer deny it they said they had fixed it but then the second down in my service came about. I complained again but I was never answered, this cost me on about 30 thousand dollars. Then their system breakdown happened and Yahoo was almost down for about 10 days. Many of the damaged features are still down and they wont bother to fix them after all they believe that being a free service users don't deserve any better.

I suggested we all signed a petition to request Yahoo President Susan Decker for us to become paid members of the Messenger, Mail and Answers, some others got a petition form and posted the link to it. I stated that being paid members with a yearly membership payment nothing would ever be rubbed in again and we would have voice and vote over the service package. I was then targeted by Yahoo Staff and whatever I posted in the board was either deleted or thrown behind into oblivion. My answers were all thumbed down, I began to obtain less Best Answers, from about 15 a day I ended up with a couple per day. The Yahoo staff by the name of "Lou" targeted me in the most shameful possible way, he has no respect for the users and especially if they are women and senior users as it seems he has some kind of a trauma against us. I know they read this site and I also know that what ever we post here is used against us then we are tortured, banned and blocked out of all possible sites with the use of our IP, by blocking my IPs they got 123 members out of their services as I own a Cybercafe. Never the less I don't care I have provided my clients with two excellent European Q&A Sites, all Google sites to replace the Messenger and Mail plus a few extras that Google offers. We have withdrawn from their sites, we don't participate any more and we frankly don't care. I certainly believe we have gained with this situation.

The said staff member Lou deleted all my post in the suggestions board, I thus cleaned out all my info and left without saying a single word, I have honor and pride and I will not allow this poor creature to humiliate me. It is best to post a very strong opinion in a blog elsewhere as it would not be ethical to post it in their site.

This is why I will soon post a very well informed blog on what is going on in Yahoo, the layoffs, the horrible service offered to their users, the back logs in most sites, what their fired executives are posting in very many blogs as they are not leaving quietly, how they lodge and protect trolls, how they allow point gaming, how the auto login bot is used by Lous friends to gain thousands of points a day and make it to level 7 in a week when it is supposed to take no less than 6 months. There is much more information which has fallen into my hands, I am working with two well known media people who will use the hard copies I have [screen shots] and they will provide me with certain other very important information. The blog will be called Yahoos slow death.

Good my friend, very good.

REVISED: Though I've just started using this program again and it's obviously limited to members, Yahoo! Messenger was the best instant messenger that I have used in the past. From my limited experience with the current version, it still comes will all the basics, but what continues to make Messenger stand apart for me is that one can be invisible, yet see your other contacts if they are online and visible. Also, one is shown online as to all profiles, not just one (as was the case with AOL the last time I tried it). In other words, your in-person friends will see your primary ID while your online contacts will only see the handle that you used for them. Nevertheless, the new features seem a bit cluttered and non-intuitive in my opinion.

Pretty good, but webcam video is poor quality with it.

its decent, I'm happy with it

Yahoo messenger is really trendy, but it messed up my computer. I love Yahoo avators, the games and the sounds that are used to alert you when someone replys to your message, but I still don't think its got a long way to go for me to give it five stars.

Acceptable. No ICQ, but what is?

While not as good as AIM, I gotta say I like YM for the Make invisible to everyone setting, the fact that I can pick my own photo as an avatar, and the fact that I get mail alerts as soon as I get a new email.

Despite what problems Dragonman has had, I doub't he's even thought about checking for seeing if maybe his firewall was blocking connections from yahoo messenger. I've been working with computers for many years and I have NEVER EVER had any problems at all with Yahoo Messenger. It works great, and by gosh, if anyone tries to tell me that Aol Instant Messenger is better than Yahoo, then you have cows for brains. Get a clue dragonman!

I enjoy the stealth settings and the avatars that one can make. It's just a fun way to kill time while chatting with friends or family members for me.

I like Yahoo Messenger (the new version that's out now) because you can choose who you want them to know you are online, and those to see you offline. I also like the cute audibles, sending messages when people are offline, and more.

This is tied with MSN as the worst messenger. I have been a Yahoo! user for years but they have just consistently gotten worse and now it's about to the point that I stop using them all together. I wake up, logon to my pc, fire up Yahoo messenger...and I can't log in, I keep trying and nothing. I then go to reset my password, I type in my account info at the new password request page...it says the info is incorrect-no it's not! ..or it wasn't. Not only did the latest version 6.0 crash constantly but it apparently has security flaws, on top of that even if you do get to chat there are booters and bots everywhere. You would do better using AIM or ICQ.

Yahoo! Messenger merits laughter. Ordinarily I don't care about how messaging programs looks just as long as they functions, but with so much competition out there I have to complain about how hideous Yahoo! Messenger is! And I can't say much about its functions either: there's nothing special about them that differs Yahoo! Messenger from others. I can tell you that this is the sloppiest messenger service I've ever tried. For some reason whenever I log on, I'm plagued by off-line messages from strangers about penises and such. I used to use the older version of Yahoo! Messenger when I had a bunch of contacts, and I can't find them with this version... Have they all been deleted? I'm not even going to bother with finding out in the Messenger Help or the YahooHelper (one of my contacts, apparently), because no one I know uses Yahoo anyway and I rarely use it. This messenger is essentially a portal into the chat rooms with links left and right to other sections of Yahoo. Whenever I attempt to reach a contact, it keeps referring me to chat rooms, but I don't want to talk to strangers in chat rooms, I want to talk to my contacts! So for needless confusion and outright ugliness and inconvenience, I no longer use Yahoo! Messenger.

This is okay. I like the emoticons the best on this one and the fact that you can send offline messages. It's good, but not as good as ICQ.

i like the new yim! i like the fact i can use my webcam, my mic, the new audibles, the launch cast radio, and the new stealth settings.. oh my! you can make certain people see you online and vice versa.. it just keeps getting better!

it's nice I guess, but why do I have to download all that crap that basically turns my computer into Yahoo's website just to use it. Oh wait I don't, that's why I use AIM.

ive used it before. no organization, and it puts software and ads and little search bars everywhere. AIM is much better!

Can you say VOICE CHAT? Yahoo, is a great product. It offers all the popular bells and whistles of your favorite IM program and more. Yahoo has introduced Voice chat which would be a Super cool feature except that theres generally a goofy teenager or wannabee Radio DJs hoggin the Voice chat feature. In other words, to use Voice chat you have to join a chat room and to voice chat you have to do it in a room where someone is gauraunteed to be holding their mic button & playing top 40 hits! and you cant respond or do anything about it. So as an IM it has cool features and it works about as good as any but its not as popular as AOL and MSN Messenger so your contacts may be limited.