Yahoo! Messenger
Is it just me, and it’s entirely possible that it is, or is Yahoo! Messenger the worst program on the Internet? And not only their messenger program, but the whole Yahoo! service in general. I used to have a schalicto at yahoo.com address that I would use for spam mail, then one day about three years ago I couldn’t log into it anymore. I never did figure out why despite all of my emails due to the fact that I probably lied about a couple things when I first set the account up in the stone ages of the Internet (1996). So with my iconic nickname no longer available for a Yahoo! account I decided to go a slightly different direction and went with joshparkerb3studios. You might be wondering why the hell I would even want a Yahoo! account and it’s a good question, it turns out that Yahoo! shoveled money at Flickr and now they own it. I love Flickr, I think it is the easiest way to share pictures and I love that they let you hot link the image at sizes ranging from avatar to original, but I digress. So I have had that yahoo account for a couple of years but I could never get the Yahoo! Messenger working with it properly, probably due to the fact that I almost refuse to use their Yahoo! Messenger program and prefer the more elegant solutions of Trillian and Meebo.com. But today I bit the bullet and downloaded their terrible piece of crappy crap and ran the install (making sure to do the custom install to avoid having Yahoo! put shitty crappy profanity malware on my system in the form of Yahoo! toolbar and other such crap) and logged in, the first thing I tried to do was add my buddy Moon, and it didn’t work…. so I tried to add my niece Ashley and the program crashed. THE PROGRAM CRASHED! Trying at add a contact caused the program to crash! I can’t even believe it! I don’t understand how anyone can put up with this program. I tried it three more times and got the same result each time, so now I am sitting and typing this while looking at the dead gray box of a crashed Yahoo! Messenger…. I’m slightly irritated right now. The prevailing theory is that Microsoft will buy yahoo this year in an attempt to acquire their bewildering user-base I could believe it seeing as Yahoo! Messenger is just a modified MSN (or Live) Messenger and they both seem to have a problem with getting things done right.
It’s almost enough to make me abandon my loves of Del.icio.us and Flickr just so that I can be rid of Yahoo!
-Josh
Posted on January 25th, 2007 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants
This is why i like my hacked version of AIM. It simply works, without the extra AOL crap.
Wow. I just re-read that. I’m impressed that I got all the correct punctuation despite the fact that I didn’t even take a pause to make a new paragraph. This is probably one of the best rants that I have ever writen.
Thanks for the input Dave! I completely agree, AIM is just as bad as the rest of them these days, but there are a lot of great alternatives.
yah cause of the crap i get with messengers i just really don’t use them anymore sorry to hear flickr got taken over……..
I just recently started using them again when I discovered meebo.com (can I say it again? meebo.com meebo.com meebo.com, I wish I was getting paid for this). It’s a great crap-free service that merges all of your IM clients into one easy to manage web-based service. Neat!
I like aim. I use 5.9.3861. trillian annoyed me back in the day, I’ve always hated MSN and yahoo messengers. yahoo is fun for games though.
I like Miranda-IM, I think its about the best IM client out there, light weight, and fast. Multi messenger.
That sounds like a neat client Derek, what platforms does it support?
I’m sure you checked into it already, but http://www.miranda-im.com/. I believe Win32 is the only supported platform right now, I coule be wrong on that, for Linux, I recommend GAIM, I feel the GAIM Win32 client is subpar to Miranda-IM however. Miranda-IM features plug-ins to expand the power of the messenger.
2nd post, as a programmer I read platforms as in which platforms is it on… A re-read and I think you ment messenger services, aim,msn,yahoo,icq,jabbra,google talk, irc, and basically any other plug-in that you can put into it.
Sweet, I actually left my question intentionally ambiguous to see where you went with it. Sounds like a cool program, if I’m ever in a position that I want to use a IM application again then I’ll give it a try.