nsane.forums Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Yahoo Messenger will lose some important features starting on the 14th of December. These include chat room, calls to landlines, and interoperability with Microsoft's Live Messenger service. Yahoo has been in a transition period for quite some time trying to get back some of its market and mindshare, and that has occasionally meant cutting things off. This time it’s Yahoo Messenger’s turn to get a feature trim, and the company has announced on their blog that the once popular messaging service will lose some important features starting December 14th. First of all Yahoo Messenger will lose interoperability with Microsoft’s Live Messenger. Users will still see their Live friends online but they will not be able to send them messages or interact in any way. This is somewhat of a big deal as the interop was certainly an important feature. Chat Rooms as well as Voice calls to landlines are also getting cut. Arguably nobody cares about chat rooms anymore, but the Call in and out features were definitely big ones and Yahoo’s answer in the fight with Skype. Users are no longer able to add credit to their accounts and they will get a refund for their remaining balance. Messenger-to-Messenger calls will still be available but it’s pretty clear Yahoo has conceded this fight. And lastly and probably least important: Pingbox, an embeddable applet developed by Yahoo, will stop functioning after the 14th. Users that have this installed on their websites and blogs will have to disable and delete it. For more info on the account refunds and how to disable Pingbox be sure to check the source link below. In the meantime let us know: were you YMessenger users or has everyone forgotten it ever existed? View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 1, 2012 Administrator Share Posted December 1, 2012 That's sad. I don't use it myself, but lot of my friends use it, and many of my relatives use it. It means I won't be able to talk to them via WLM. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 These include chat room, calls to landlines, and interoperability with Microsoft's Live Messenger service.Screw the chat room - but, absence of the other 2 would hurt. :thumbsdown: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babelpatcher Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 the only thing i love from yahoo is yahoo msgtoday, yahoo mail is s*ckthey seems in not-good season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vkarthik Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer she is responsible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Screw the chat room - but, absence of the other 2 would hurt. :thumbsdown: http://en.wikipedia....i/Marissa_Mayer she is responsibleIn that case screw her, too!!! :wub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikie Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 She's a smart cookie, but intense interest in arts' affects common sense of people usually. They can be kind of George jetson space cadets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardecl Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Yahoo is a dead company anyway...But isn't Windows Messenger/The Microsoft Network (MSN) Messenger/Windows Live Messenger being shutdown and shuffled over to Skype anyway... perhaps that is the reason for the cut features... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 1, 2012 Administrator Share Posted December 1, 2012 Yahoo is dead from almost 3-4 years now. M$'s buyout offer was their best chance for survival, now they are doing a suicide by removing the WLM chat feature.WLM's move to Skype is one part, they could have atleast kept the chat function. Or even better, they are now having (or were having?) good search engine relationship with Microsoft, they could have had themselves asked for Skype audio and video calling API support from Microsoft (with some royalty ofc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clusterphuck Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 I wouldn't call them important features. Yahoo's chat rooms are mostly filled with porn bots that log your IDs and randomly PM you with porn site links and stuff. As for the loss of the WLM interop that's because of Microsoft discontinuing WLM in favor of Skype.Yahoo needs to die already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Yahoo messenger! :o What is that? :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chlorophyll Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 last time i used yahoo messenger was in da year 2005i totally forgot this SHIT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 The most endearing, but unknown (to the masses) propensity of Yahoo! Messenger was the capability of sending anonymous messages (to most protocols) without being traceable. :sneaky: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 chat rooms was one and still one of the best way to meet some locals and make friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Yahoo should have sold everything in their portfolio to M$ a few years ago. With the huge Mexican fine and all the other loses they could become bankrupt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcs18 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The Yahoo! Messenger Blog: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 btw here comes those email chains about click and send to 10 people in order to save yahoo chat rooms. you all remember those fake chains? now they will be realas bad as walamrt actually giving away to winners $500 gift cards after all these years of fake ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROMANTICGUY50 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I have Yahoo on my computer but I use Trillian which I like much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emil47 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 I use Yahoo Messenger from time to time and I like it, but not the features that will be discontinued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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