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October 10, 2006 at 11:47 pm #25211Jeff HesterKeymaster
Copied from Yahoo! Chat
We’re moving to Yahoo! Messenger on Nov. 1st. Chat with you there.With so much great stuff happening over at Yahoo! Messenger with Voice, we decided to move the world of chat over there. To type-away (and do lots more) with a friend or in chat rooms, you’ll need to download Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (it’s free).
October 11, 2006 at 1:29 am #153144dvelez1985Member*omit*
October 11, 2006 at 7:17 am #153148squad546MemberMay I say, what a steaming pile of crap yahoo is pulling! That is all
October 12, 2006 at 5:26 am #153141Torseq Tech.MemberYahoo! likes to keep developers on their toes. Last year I wrote a YCHT protocol bridge for my application so you could use YCHT protocol through Yahoo! Messenger. It was short lived and in April they took the protocol’s support away. After I saw this I jumped on Chat 2 and developed a bridge to Messenger for it too. It works great, just as the YCHT bridge did, and now that Yahoo!’s canning Chat 2 protocol there aren’t any other protocols of Yahoo!’s left to bridge for anti-boot protection (unless we count YMSG/HTTP which I’m not).
Yahoo! doing away with Chat 2 doesn’t come as a big surprise to me but having no browser-enabled chat operation doesn’t seem to be the best move as I know lots of people that’ve always counted on chat.yahoo.com’s browser-based chat support for “quick” chatting with friends and the flexibility that it provided. Removing the user-created rooms was a huge blow, dropping YCHT protocol support was another big blow, getting rid of /goto and /follow was another big blow and now the removal of Chat 2 protocol as of November 1st is another bad move.
If anything good can come out of this I’d say that it could give Yahoo!’s Messenger development team a stronger focus on improving YMSG’s operation and focusing completely on it and Yahoo! Messenger. The future for Yahoo! definitely looks to be interoperability with Microsoft’s WLM/MSN application and possibly other IM networks down the road as they all soften up and give into the concept of a “super” all-in-one IM network.
October 14, 2006 at 5:49 am #153149squad546MemberIf its so great how come everytime I try chat thru messenger I end up with a blank screen?? Never had this before until I used messenger, I even uninstalled and re-installed it.
October 14, 2006 at 7:00 am #153145dvelez1985Member*omit*
October 14, 2006 at 7:01 am #153134Jeff HesterKeymasterAre you ignoring people not on your friends list? And are you useing messenger version 8?
If you say yes to both, stop ignoring people not on your friends list and it will fix your problem.
October 14, 2006 at 10:35 am #153146No-WayMember@squad546 208844 wrote:
If its so great how come everytime I try chat thru messenger I end up with a blank screen?? Never had this before until I used messenger, I even uninstalled and re-installed it.
What version of Messenger that you use ?
October 17, 2006 at 4:55 pm #153150squad546MemberUsing the brand new 8.0, I took Cchris78’s advice and stoped ignoring everyone not on my list, it works better, but still got 2 messages saying it “took longer then expected try again”. So I’m half way there.
October 21, 2006 at 7:13 am #153151squad546MemberUPDATE: So how do I keep from getting booted now?!?!? I used to just block everyone on my list, I can’t do anymore, but now I get 5,000 IMs from so 13 year old from Hooterville, what gives?!!? This is their idea of “better ” chat?!?!
October 21, 2006 at 11:48 am #153139DermotParticipantAfter Chat 2 is gone yahoo! will only have one protocol to deal with.
what this means?
quicker updates form yahoo?
Change of YMSG protection?
All chat 2 related booters/laggers become useless
Yahoo could change the login Authentication more often
YMSG servers could get an overhaul and protocol can at least be better secured.
The removal of Chat 2.0 could be a blessing for YMSG users.
for the time being anyways..
October 31, 2006 at 9:50 pm #153135Jeff HesterKeymasterJust a reminder Chat 2.0 is being taken down within the next 24 hours.
November 1, 2006 at 11:05 pm #153136Jeff HesterKeymasterChat 2.0 is gone for good! 😀
November 1, 2006 at 11:44 pm #153142Torseq Tech.MemberWell, chat.yahoo.com now points to messenger.yahoo.com, so as far as Chat 2 DHTML being gone it is. You can still, however, at this time sign into Chat 2 protocol and use it in a third party client. I imagine within the next couple hours this won’t be possible.
November 2, 2006 at 3:36 am #153143Torseq Tech.MemberWell, Chat 2’s definitely toast now, as of a few hours ago. There’s still a way to sign in and access the web chat.yahoo.com interface though (fetch the rooms etc) and Chat 2 is still an option there even though you can’t connect with it.
http://chat.yahoo.com/c/roomlist.html?.rmcat=1600073831&identity=&client=DHTML
It’s pointless though…
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