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Welcome to the Profiles News Blog! Think of this blog as your go-to-place for all things profiles related: enhancements, tutorials, and so much more.
We’ll use this blog to communicate the most recent updates and information about profiles, as well as provide you with a few tips and tricks to make your profile experience the best it can be.
Your profile is all about you-your connections, your updates, your privacy settings, your life. We want to help you better connect with the people that matter to you in the easiest way possible, whether it’s sharing your recent updates or connecting with people from your address book- we’re here to help.
So be sure to add this blog to your My Yahoo! page, RSS feed, or subscribe via email. No matter how you subscribe, be sure to stop by often and let us know how we’re doing by leaving a comment.
I know it goes without saying, but while you’re here, try to stay on topic- share your comments, questions, suggestions on your new Yahoo! profile, but remember to be courteous and constructive, and steer clear from any profanity, racial slurs, or anything that would offend others.
Thanks again for stopping by! Be sure to check back soon for details on getting started with your new profile, including: how to maximize your experience, as well as cool tricks and tips while using your profile.
Talk to you soon!
Melissa Daniels
Yahoo! Community Manager
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October 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
why the change in the Profile Layout? It sure doesn’t seem to post much information.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I liked my profile the way it was. I want my old profile back. I worked hard to get it the way I wanted it. I should have been given the option of using the new profile set up or not. I have been displeased with Yahoo ever since yall changed the photos to Flikr, but I hung on anyway. Its no wonder I do not use Messenger or the chat rooms as much as I used to. Yahoo has pretty much stripped all the fun out of its self. You took away my old profile. with no notice, I had things there I did not get a chance to copy, my link to my photos for the flickr was there. Now I have to figure out how to get back there,, thanks.. that was soo thought full of you, and so considerate. Have you ever heard the old saying, “Ifts not broke, DONT fix it”? My profile was not broken, I did not need anyone to fix it. I am really becoming to believe going back to AOL full time is my best bet. thanks but no thanks to the not cool proflie. I will not use it. I did not use 360, I wont use this one. you wanted a positive posting, unfortunately I do not feel positive about anything Yahoo right now. and I have not for an extremely long time.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
cbat I DO NOT LIKE THIS NEW ONE.I LIKE THE OLD PROFILE BACK
PLEASE RETURN TO THE OLD PROFILE BACK
October 17th, 2008 at 8:30 am
what is going on this is rediculous
October 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
This new profile is terrible! Go back to the old one. Leave things alone! Hell! took me 30 minutes just to figure out how to add to this blog and it still is not right. It was working perfectly leave it alone. What is it with you guys? Having to justify your jobs, so you change everything?
October 19th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
i agree i don’t like the new profile i liked the old one.go back to the old profile.
January 29th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
yea i think the same way. i dont like this bnew profile stuff. i want the old profile back as soon as possible. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
October 25th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Amen – this rude unannounced privacy invading ‘enhancement’ of profiles is my last straw with yahoo. I have opened a gmail acount, notified those in my contact list I care about of it, and am about to delete my yahoo account which is the only thing I believe yahoo will listen to since nothing in this blog shows anything but uncaring about what people want. You blew it bad yahoo.
For those that wish the link to deleting your account here it is.
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
January 7th, 2009 at 11:43 am
hey thanks for the message it does works;]
and i really like it.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I LIKE THE OLD SETTING OR PROFILE
October 19th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
i agree
October 16th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
eeek…. i hate this new design ..give me back my old profile!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
agreement with u…..like old profile than new one.. so can more read old profiles and new one not show things out
October 17th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I agree. Yahoo should always ask us first. I like the old profile much better, get to read what one has to say. Had places for links and easy excess. Sometimes new is not always best. Yahoo should listen to their users ans what they have to say and want. Yahoo just sucks, that’s all.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:27 am
YES,,,,I think yahoo should ALWAYS,,ASK US USERS FIRST…before making any changes,,just like they did with our yahoo mail box….it is like the old saying goes……IF IT ISN”T BROKEN.,…DON”T FIX IT……PUT THINGS BACK THE WAY THEY WERE YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 17th, 2008 at 7:23 am
AMEN!!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
It’s change for the sake of change. Too confusing how to get the “UNDERSIZED” photo in profile and no member date.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
This format stinks!. When it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
October 25th, 2008 at 11:10 am
I agree, Mike. It really sucks.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
YOU SO RIGHT WHAT ABOUT ALL FRIENDS WHAT HAPPIN TO ALL THEM
October 17th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
I’ve been using Yahoo Messenger since 1999. I don’t like the profile change because i have different friends under different aliases. I see no reason for me to continue using Yahoo at all unless profiles are changed back to the way they were.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I agree. This new one is the pits.
October 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Hello Raven,
I completely agree with everything you said regarding this what I call a corporate social change rather than a community for social change. Although change is overall good in many aspects, such change should come with communication and then compliance, as we have seen that there was never any slow transition nor options provided to make changes. YB360 was one ‘beta’ measurement that (still to this day) never gained traction and took off – one large failed attempt at expanding personalized social networks within an organization. Such “betas” need to experimented on more of a small scale of volunteers’ and not the entire community of account holders. It took many many years for people to even get accustomed to the [former] Yahoo profile accounts; however, with more social capabilities made available by other companies, it won’t take long for many dissatisfied customers to opt their social selections elsewhere.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:51 am
I agree. If you were going to clobber all our profiles, why do we have to do all the works to update them? Why couldn’t the old info be put in the new profile format?
I don’t like j=having to re-invent the wheel because someone screwed with something that was already working. It was bad enough that photos were gone for about a year, we just are now able to update them. Now you are messing with us another way.
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 am
i am with you!!!!!
what we have to do to have our old profile???????
Please help me!
October 16th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Melissa,
When a man is running along……he is making progress, when he runs too far too fast……..he is bound to run off a cliff. I think that Yahoo!! needs to stop fixing what isn’t broken. All the messenger updates over the years, the constant revamping of the homepages..emails…..messengers……..its all so overwhelming. I know that Yahoo!1 is attemting to improve the user expereince……….but wait……….I have a novel idea………lets ask the users what they want. Earth shattering idea I know.
In ten years I have seen alot of changes…..some okay….most far from it. As the changes grow and time goes on………and the lack of response from Yahoo!! when I do ask questions, is more the reason that I, like alot of your users, have migrated to others. The “improvement” is anything but one. And yes, I am versed in the pitch……” there will be a bit of resistance at first, but most will come around”. Problem is……..use it too much and pretty soon people stop coming around and gravitate to what it comfortable…..MY advice……….Stop trying to emulate Microsoft and adding pretty things and bells and whistles to a Cadillac.Sometimes good and reliable are better staying that way, only they need a new rims or a new color once in a while.
As for me, I would rather have what I know……..what I am comfortable with and not have the constant ” improvements” forced on me every time someone has an idea about what I want……what I like. Ask me once will ya………….
October 17th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Well said…..
Covering almost every aspect of scenerio, about human nature, their convinience, their expectation, and about their getting used to certain things in life. A human factor which almost everyone overlook, in zeal of exhibiting their creativeness, in name of Improvisation. Cant undermine the importance of Improvisation, but then why people forget about the time and energy, others have put into it as well to make it a Success. The efforts others have put in to built up their profile during the period, goes all into waste. At least the same may have been restored here, into this new avatar of Yahoo.
“Improvisation” maybe elaborated as advancement in the present scenerio, with additional looks and priveleges incorporated ….. and not advancement where everyone have to start back from scratch.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:17 am
I really dont like these new profiles. I cant see anyones information beyond their name and they cant see any of my info. I took the time to complete the profile so whats the point to this new one that shows nothing???…Its bad enough we have to go through the new drawn out log in procedure just to enter a chat room…cant we at least have our old profiles back? What is the point to having a profile that nobody can see?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Yes, I’m wondering if all of the contents of the profiles have been wiped out. I can’t find anything about it in Yahoo Help, Questions, or here for that matter.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Here’s what we should do…just go make a nice profile page on livejournal, and post it here..lol. To hell with yahoos pathetic attempts to keep up with other sites that kick butt!! Advertise your profiles here..livejournal has an awesome set up..much better than the old yahoo profiles and the stupid 360 set ups!!
October 17th, 2008 at 7:59 am
GREAT IDEA!!! LOLOL!
October 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Great! Now the groups owners cann’t check the profile of applicants. Yahoo does it best to dissappoint us with new stuff that isn’t better than what we already have. It just new.
October 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The new profiles do not include the date the profile was created. This was a vital bit of info for group owners who are vetting to keep out trolls and spammers. Please include the date the profile was created for all profiles.
October 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Put the profiles back the way they were!!!!! I can’t see any of my friends profiles and can’t hardly remember all the things i had on mine to replace them!
October 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Paul,
If you go through the new account flow/creation you should see all of your old profile data, right where it belongs– in your new profile.
To do this, go here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/ ; you will be prompted to go through the New User Experience and able to import your information to your new profile.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Melissa you guys do not have any search functions for the member directory. This new setup is ridiculous and not at all user friendly. People post their profiles so that they can be contacted as well as contact other people of like interests. I am totally turned off by what yahoo is doing with its users.
October 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Why should we have to go thru all that dickdance? Just give us back what we already had!
October 17th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
What?! I went through that process and it didn’t even give me the option to do that. You lie, Malissa!
October 17th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I have Alias profiles and I can’t edit them anymore. How do I change them? I go into the Account settings and go into Edit Alias profiles, but it only gives me to the option to add or delete. When I try to see them, they don’t have any information they used to have. This is Anti-Woot!
October 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Thanks, Melissa. The process worked very smoothly, effortlessly. I like it so far.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:10 am
The sad thing is that even with all of the comments made by everyone here, THERE WILL BE NO CHANGES!!!
These people have NO INTENTION of listening to any of the comments made by any of the people here!!!
They did not ask anyone before they made the change and HAVE NO INTENTION OF CORRECTING THEIR SCREW UP!!!
IF THEY TRULY WERE LISTENING TO OUR COMMENTS THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY CHANGED THINGS BACK TO THE WAY THEY WERE.
THEY DO NOT CARE!!!
DO YOU NOT GET IT PEOPLE? THEY DO NOT CARE!!!
THEY ARE GOING TO DO WHAT THEY WANT ON THEIR SITE AND DO NOT CARE WHAT ANY OF US HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT, IT IS THAT PLAIN AND SIMPLE. ALL COMMENTS ARE FALLING ON DEAF EARS.
YOU CANNOT GET ANYONE TO LISTEN WHEN THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR MINDS THAT THE GARBAGE THEY HAVE GIVEN US IS WHAT WE WILL HAVE TO PUT UP WITH.
FREE IS FREE, WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IT. THEY DO NOT WANT TO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO THE END USER. SO ALL COMMENTS ARE MUTE.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:10 am
My profile is in Mandarin Chinese (as my Singaporean friend confirmed), but I only speak English and originally set-up my profiles in English. I wrote to Yahoo customer care about two weeks ago but never received a resolution. This is frustrating and confusing.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I didn’t realize this when I posted the original message, but I used my full name and now it’s searchable on Yahoo. YIKES!!! I’m a victim of identity theft and need it removed. Melissa – please help!! Thanks.
November 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Paul
this sux first you mess with yahoo messenger.
Now it sux too!.
Apparently you do not get it we liked it the way it was!.
I get my 360 looking the way “i want!.”
U stopped by and messed thing’s up for all of us.
The way you have things set up it it sux,…
UN do it, or you will loose your customer base!. Its that simple.
Leave yahoo messenger alone too.
~If its not broken don’t fix it!. ~
Geez
October 17th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
What a mess ! I cant even see the most basic details about anyone at all – sure entices conversations – NOT !!
What the use of a profile if no one else other than my freinds can see it – USELESS!
Sorry Yahoo you’ve just ruined it it for me and probably everyone else.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I would like my old profile back as all my friends know me by the old one.Please give me back my old profile ..thank you
October 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
how do you call this a profile blog when you’ve deleted all the profiles and don’t talk about it?
October 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
I’m so sick of people redsigning things that work perfectly well the way they are. I attribute this to people needing to appear busy at work just to keep their jobs. To look good to the boss. They don’t seem to care if they inconvience the user.
In my job, I see this all the time. Engineers redesign something that’s worked fine for years and mess it up producing problems that weren’t there before.
If you want to improve Yahoo, hire live moderators for the game rooms.
That would keep people busy so they don’t invent things to make our lives more difficult.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Agree. I have people wanting to join my groups and I can’t even see when they got their yahoo ID.
The things you said you were giving us (user friendly photo album usage and larger album space) never came.
Concentrate on things that help…I do no advantage to the profile changes. Thanks Bill
October 21st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Let me add MY irritation to most ALL of the other comments! This new set up is HORRIBLE…As a group moderator, HOW do I look at profiles of ‘potential’ new members so I can decide if I want to let them in or not? YOU promise response to requests for help in 24 hours…I have been waiting FOUR days to my queries and no response….Please return things the way they were!
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 am
READ DIRECTIONS people! You have the choice to make all your information public or private. Once again….READ DIRECTIONS and quit bitching about a much better profile option we’ve been given completely FREE.
October 24th, 2008 at 10:45 am
MELISSA,
I HAVE TO AGREE WITH THE MAJORITY YOU GUESS MADE A BAD MISTAKE IN CHANGING THE PROFILES. ESPECIALLY WITHOUT CONSULTING WITH THE USERS LIKE YOU USUALLY DO TO SEE IF IT WILL BE LIKED AND USED. YAHOO WILL PROBABLY LOSE A LOT OF ITS PARTICIPANTS NOW.
IF YOU WERE TRYING TO AVOID FAKE ALIAS FROM COMMUNICATING WITHOUT BEING IDENTIFIED AS THE SAME MAIN USER, YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE IT ANOTHER WAY WITHOUT HAVING TO CHANGE THE WHOLE PROFILE LAYOUT
October 25th, 2008 at 4:35 am
I do not like the useless change either. Besides, I do not understand why once a Yahoo Account terminated the corresponding profile is still there…….Do we have to worry more about our privacy despite the fact that much less information seems to be posted in the new format?????
Thank you.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
The new profile system is basically a stripped down version of Mash that has been pre-populated with information from my 360 page. One thing I really did not like about Mash…no blog. I miss having a reliable blog..
You should really add My Yahoo as one of the tabs across the top of the new profile page in addtion to the Contacts and Updates tabs.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
It appears that every Yahoo profile needs remaking. Even having dont so all I see is a message saying OOPs… OOPs is right, so far so not very good Yahoo. Some groups require full profiles for membership and this new debacle has just made hundreds if not thousands of memberships potentially null and void.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
I do not like the new profile page. It is a big waste of a persons time to go check out another person’s profile
Tim
October 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
How do i get my pictures back on my profile, yahoo took em off and some can’t be replaced…why do you guys have to mess it up?Half the fun of chatting was the profile pics we had…plz quit messing with my profiles
October 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Curious How do you upload a picture to your profile?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Hi Rae,
Once you’re logged into your profile, click on the “Change Photo” link (should show up under the “Update my status” link in the top portion of your profile page). From here, you’ll have the option of adding a photo or updating your avatar.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Thanks Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
this is crap! Why did you change my profile? why do my multiple profiles all have the same info on them? where is my profile pics? Why was this done? yahoo sucks!
October 17th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Yeah, Melissa. Thanks for nothing.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
How typical ! Melissa, you ignored the most important part of the original post – the question regarding all the photos and information that may be lost to users – and responded so perkily to the one thing asked that was not negative. Way to go Yahoo!… let’s all take a few minutes to write a letter to Yahoo outside advertisers and Board members ( Carl Icahn, are you listening? ) letting them know how Yahoo customers ( and yes, we are customers, you make money off our presence ) feel about these unannounced, unwelcome changes and Yahoo’s absolute ( and ongoing ) failure to communicate with us effectively.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
here we go again!!! every single Yahoo! BETA rollout has been a disaster
October 16th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I always thought the concept of a BETA in software development was that users had the OPTION – read OPTION – to test it in a using environment. You did that with the new Yahoo mail, have always done it with versions of Messenger. WHY IS A BETA being forced! Why did the existing information that people put into their profile get discarded with no apparent warning.
Maybe it’s an attempt to get Microsoft a bit less interested in Yahoo, afterall, they’ve not had a great track record with messenger updates, why would we expect anything different in profiles?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
after you correct the profile where yahoo screwed up again as usual how do someone go about reading your information as well as you reading others profile to learn about them and they you I’ve look this new addition to Yahoo stupidy and i can’t find a tab to allow me to view others complete profiles if there is a way its not explained how to gain access to it
October 17th, 2008 at 5:31 am
How do you do it on a Mac running OS X where on both Safari and Firefox the link leads to a Java app that doesn’t run no matter what I do.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Sorry Melissa, this doesn’t work, so I have now stopped using Yahoo, have had it for years, hated the changes and just lost faith in having unilateral decisions foisted on me. No pictures or comments on a profile are just pointless, and the information that is there now is wrong and I can’t edit it! What a shame, it all started out so well, a bit like the Bush administration! LOL!
October 17th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Mellisa, can you please tell me how to log onto my profile, all I get is a page wanting me to set up a new one
October 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I am not melissa, but When you set up the new one all of your information is there. So just accept and go thru it.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Tiggsz is right– once you go through the new user flow, your information should be visible. You can also update your preferences to show more of your profile than the default amount, as well as link your aliases to your main profile.
To get started, you can go here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/
Once you’re logged in and set up, you can update your preferences by going here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/peoplesearch
The People Search page will allow you to link your aliases, as well as determine what aliases come up when a user does a search.
Additionally, you can update your permissions by going here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/permissions — here, you can change what connections see, as well as what non-connections (everyone) sees.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Well I went through and did all permission settings and it still does not work. It just says : Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile.
This is way to confusing. Why is it still not working?
October 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
And WHY EXACTLY should ANY of us be going through as NEW USERS Melissa?
October 18th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
I went back through and edited my new profile and i set all my permission settings to ANYONE and I experience the same thing as Ariane…anyone trying to view my profile gets Oops nothing to see here go back to your profile…I guess they werent the right “anyone” i had set the permission status for. Whats the point to having a profile when I’m the only one who can view the info…I already know about me…the other personalities inside me head are learning a lot about each other though……this is really starting to suck big time!!
October 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I liked the old profiles….i had rp characters that i’d had wrote a lot of things about them and now they are gone, it wouldnt be so bad if we could have more then the one profile again for our other alias’, but hopefully if you guys go back to the old profiles we can at least upload pictures that wont just go to the main account like what happend before the update.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:09 am
YOU SURE GOT THAT RIGHT….I DOWNLOADED THE 9.0 VERSION SO I HAVE A REAL MESS NOW.. ….CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW TO EVEN EDIT MY PROFILE…CAN SOMEONE HELP???
October 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
How can we see the old profiles? This is NUTS!
October 16th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Hi Dave,
To view your profile with your old profile info in it, go to http://profiles.yahoo.com/ ; you will be prompted to go through the New User Experience and able to import your information to your new profile.
Thanks,
Ophelia
October 17th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Yes – is there any way to see the old profiles? Now when I go in chat and check out other peoples profiles, all I see are blank profiles. Which does not facilitate chat at all.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:49 am
You still get your OLD information, just in a new format.
I dont like this connections, that is what we do
Everyone is ranting… take a look and dont just react to a NEW POST geez !
October 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Hello.
It’s nice to see something being done about the profile. I have now worked on the new one, and I have a few suggestions:
1. Get rid of the expand/collapse button. Just keep it expanded. I have used yahoo Messenger for 8 years and I know yahoo conduct well enough, to know that most people wont bother to expand profiles and read all of it. Which is annoying if you take time to fill it out.
2. The text area is too compressed and hard to read. Especially if you are a bit near sighted. I’d like to see a nicer design for the profile over all. And especially please make it easier to read. Larger fonts, and spacing between the individual boxes. So please! Much much more design! Make it simple, easy to read and pleasing to the eyes.
3. HTML. I can’t link to my 360 anymore, which is a bother. Because I update that blog often. Will you attach blog to the new profile? I read something about that on other yahoo fora.
Sincerely
Abigail
Yahoo user and graphic designer.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Actually, you can post certain HTML code in the Guestbook, including the tags for linking to your blog or to other images on a hosting site. I haven’t tested other parts of the profile.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Kinda strange to be able to use some html in the guest box but not in profile info where I would want it..guest box just invites spammers for now to abuse that area..hmmm?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
It was fine the way it was, the way you have it now, nobody can see my lovely web page, and nobody’ll be able to vote, or sign my guest book, and I enjoy having people sign my guest book.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Megan,
You can still have people sign your guest book– the new profile features a guest book area at the bottom of your profile.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Keep trying Melissa. Maybe, and I say maybe, you can convice people this new thing is good. Doubtful but maybe.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
go back go back please to the old way to show profiles
October 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
i love my profile! although now, my profile- http://profiles.yahoo.com/julymale20042003
shows the message:
“Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile.”
even if i’ve updated and save my new profile. maybe it’ll update later?
October 17th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Hi D,
To view your profile as others see it, when you’re logged into your profile grab the URL up at the top– THAT is the “share address” you can use. Please keep in mind that this can only be done once you go through the new user setup and import in all of your old profile data. To do this, go here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
this beta FAILS!!! pls back it out & revert it 2 what was there previously
October 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
ok, I give, how do you actually get to your own profile? I can find no link in Messenger v9 and the list of my aliases on my “My Account Info” page is just a non-clickable list. What do I have to do, type in the URL for ID and every single alias I have to access the thing? If not for accidentally stumbling across someone else’s profile then clicking the “My Profile” link on theirs I’d have never even found mine.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Hi Jeff –
From Yahoo! Messenger, there are links to your own profile and to your friends’ profiles from the main Messenger window. We just turned them on today so you may need to sign out and quit, and then sign back in again to make them show up.
To view your own profile from Messenger, click on your display image or avatar at the top of the main window. Your contact card will appear and you can click on “My Profile”
To view a friend’s profile, click on them in your list to view their contact card. Then click their “View Profile” link.
Sarah Bacon
Yahoo! Messenger Blog
October 16th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Thanks Sarah but apparently that fix needs to be fixed.
I click the avatar on my Messenger.
My Contact Card appears with the following options:
Display Image
Contact Details
Power User Benefits
Manage My Updates
Nowhere on that card is there a link to my profile. Nowhere on my account Info Page is there a link to my profile. There SHOULD be a link under “Messenger” in the main Messenger window that would take users directly to their own profile. There’s links for My JustAboutEverythingElse, who not one for the profile?
Bottom line, there is still NO way to get to it.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Hey Jeff,
Try logging out of Messenger, completely quitting the client, and then logging back in. The My Profile link should appear in your contact card that way.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Finally! I can now get to my own profile.
There SHOULD be a link under “Messenger” in the main Messenger window that would take users directly to their own profile. There’s links for My JustAboutEverythingElse, who not one for the profile?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
When I am in chat, I click to view other chatter’s profiles. That seems to work. But, I do that for mine and it doesn’t work. I get “Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile.” When others click on mine will they see it correctly?
On a related note, thanks for the notice . /sarcasm
October 16th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
no. i should NOT have to do anything to see what is going on with my friends “view Profile” link. you guys muddied everything up and most users ARE NOT going to want to go back and enter all the info again. ONCE IS ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
MASH failed completely and NOBODY in my circle of friends likes this thing. If you’re trying to drive customers away, you’re doing a fine job of it.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I agree with all of the comments that urge yahoo to go back to the old style. Most people found good friends by going to SEARCH where you could look for people you do not already know by country, age, parial name and other things. This new thing really sucks big time!
And when I asked the people at yahoo help about this they guy who answered sounded as if he never knew that the facility I am talking about existed. Just go back and keep 98% of your people happy! This really really sucks.
October 27th, 2008 at 4:17 am
I only found out about this new Beta version when I browsed from my 360° profile (which I’ve finally started to like, now that the Groups link box have started working again), towards my favourite Yahoo! Interest page http://members.yahoo.com/interests/Europe-1600084248 as I felt like chatting to someone new.
I joined Yahoo! BEFORE the OneList.com merger, which is what? Ten-eleven years ago – and ever since then, I have chatted to, laughed at, cried with, been courted, and been moved by complete and utter strangers, who I met through Interest Lists and Interest Links. But No More. The Yahoo! computer says no.
To quote Melissa “We want to help you better connect with the people that matter to you in the easiest way possible”, in the easiest way possible? I have to know either: 1) Their full name on Yahoo!, or 2) Their primary Yahoo! username, or 3) Their e-mail address? So in other words, I can only meet people I already know! Sorry guys, but FaceBook has already been invented! What about getting to know new people, what about connecting across borders, what about reaching out?
On the really old Yahoo! Profiles, on the recently changed Yahoo! Profiles, in the ill-fated Mash (yes I tried it and loathed it), in 360° Beta (which I rather like and will continue use for as long as you let me), you could list your interests, favourite bands, favourite books etc.. I know what you’re going to say now, “you can here too, go to this link…” but on all those previous profiles I mentioned, the visitor (or I myself) could click these interests to find fellow Yahoo! members sharing them, and then connect to these people. Here on the new Yahoo! Profiles Beta, these interests are only words on the page. As far as I can tell, they are not even searchable! So the point of them being, what exactly?
When your lawers tell you that you mustn’t do business the way you do it best, then maybe its time to hang up the coat and call it a day? I blogged in my 360° Journal about the predicted demise of the poorly thought-out Mash, and nine months later it was history. Now about refreshing new Yahoo! if you own shares, my advice is this: SELL.
TS
October 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
How could you spring a Beta on everyone without allowing us to check it out first? None of my information shows (or was transfered) over from my existing profile!
As Nienna Sura put it up above, this makes it impossible to verify ages or other information required for quite a number of Yahoo Groups!
BTW, when the e-mail is wrong the “error page” is displayed and I lose everything I just typed…. Even this page seems to be “Beta”
October 17th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Frank,
Yahoo! Groups automatically verifies ages of members– this is done from the backend. This means that any user who is under 18 is behind the adult-content filter which prevents them from viewing any groups or content that is not suitable for anyone under the age of 18.
As far as losing your data on this blog, typically it is cached and you can retrieve your comment if you use the back arrow on your browser and try resubmitting.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
In the past, there has been speculation that adult groups were deleted because not all members had an age in their profile. Can you assure us that this is not the case? That because Yahoo verifies that all users who can access an adult group must be over 18, this exempts the moderators of adult groups from having to confirm ages?
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:54 am
Forget it, people. This change is here to stay, because I don’t think this change has anything to do with improving the user experience. It has to do with Yahoo’s lawyers, pure and simple.
The real change here is the elimination of “aliases” where you can have separate profiles, showing more or less information in your primary ID than your alias profiles. The changes in format and search capability all seem to be camoflage for the real change here: It’s now much harder to be anonymous. (As “Melissa” said in her bog post, the idea is when you’re online, you’re you.) Yahoo’s lawyers no doubt were nervous about potential for abuse where someone portrayed themselves as completely different people in each profile.
Remember when user-created chat rooms seem to have been dropped in response to a 2005 TV investigative report on sexual predators in which NBC (if I recall correctly) posted fake profiles on Yahoo posing as children and enticed predators to meetings where they were publicly exposed? Yahoo Chat was mentioned by name in the piece. The user-defined adult chat rooms vanished almost overnight, and all Yahoo chat rooms now seem to be constantly monitored by Yahoo and they take great pains to mention that IP addresses of users are bein recorded.
By highlighting the fact that someone is using an alias, Yahoo is effectively pressuring users to have only one ID and not be anonymous. But then they suggest ways around it, like creating a completely separate ID which is even MORE subject to abuse than having an alias with a separate profile. Before, at least Yahoo could compare the alias profile with the primary to see if the basic information like age was obviously fake in one or the other. With completely separate IDs, the link to compare is gone and it becomes easy to lie about your age, post false information and photos, etc. (Ever have to show a driver license to open a Yahoo account?)
Their lawyers probably think that what Yahoo doesn’t know can’t hurt them (i.e., lead to lawsuits)…
Right, “Melissa”?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
And FYI… it seems the Help is not correct either…. And every time I press something, it tells me I have to set up my profile. IT WAS ALREADY SET UP!!! Where’s all that information gone?
October 16th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
that info is probably cached by google..they do great searches afterall
October 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
What help link are you going to?
Try this one: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/
And here’s a tutorial for profiles: http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/prof/index.html
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I hate this….why are they messing with the Profile Section….I can’t even get it to work…..I have been toying with the idea of moving to Google….maybe it is time.
October 17th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Google profiles is way instain.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Go back to showing profiles normally; this new way is much to time consuming.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
6 paragraphs that say NOTHING about the changes at all. NOTHING. Typical yahoo fashion. Completely change profiles without any communication whatsoever to YOUR USERS. The people that allow you to collect revenue from mining our online behavior. Keep it up – you’ll need more than Uncle Google to save you me thinks.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Hi Jake,
We’ll be posting tips, tricks, and overviews shortly, highlighting some of the features in your new profile.
Stick with us, and check back regularly for new content.
Thanks!
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Can’t wait 0 I have members pending and I require the info need to approve them. This info does not show in the profile form.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Don,
What do you need help with? I can find out and get you the info asap.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Can’t wait . I have members pending and I require the info need to approve them. This info does not show in the profile form.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am
new content? you took all the content out of everyones profile…give it up!
October 17th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Rich,
The content is still there– users just have to log in and confirm it/import it.
You can start this process with your own profile by going here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 12:27 am
Here’s a thought! Why not post all that information as well as the option to use the Beta or not BEFORE forcing this ‘great new change’ down our throats?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
why does yahoo always have to mess with stuff that works just fine. yea all my profile info disappeared. my photo, links, interests, groups etc. now everyone that had a yahoo profile already set up has to start over. retarded. they completely deleted everything i already created. im starting to not want to use yahoo at all. i have had yahoo messenger since 97 i think. this is ridiculous.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
every BETA rollout has been greeted with sheiks, wails and the gnashing of teeth.
and everyone has been ignored by the Yahoo! development nerds ….
October 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am
What the heck? Now my profile doesn’t even show up… it says oops nothing here… return to your profile… why fix something that isnt’ broke??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
October 17th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Nancy, are you still having this problem?
October 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Karen,
Are you trying to access an alias of your profile? You’ll need to go through the new user cycle first, then link your aliases in order for you to view them.
To update your alias information and link them to your primary profile you can go here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/peoplesearch
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
But, Milissa, there is no way to search for people you do not already know. That was the big attraction of the system you so unthinkingly and brazenly just got rid of. As you can see, most of these comments are negative, and I am most negative about how you have changed things too. These people are experienced yahoo users and your flippant replies are just making them more frustrated and angry. Go back!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I think its rather funny!!! Some people NEEDED to lose some profiles…
October 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
i think it looks better than the old profile,, get with the time people,,,,,ha ha ha hah a
October 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Whilst i can understand that the “look and feel” will be different, i am sorry to say that I am disappointed that no one appears to be bothered to discuss things with the users.
Personally I have to agree regarding the usage of a profile to inform group owners about a potential member.
As a person who is on several groups as both an owner & moderator, I can see a need to look elsewhere for a safe environment. In one foul swoop Yahoo! has just destroyed a lot of good work and helped to make things potentially less safe for vulnerable groups who have been using the services available.
Thank you.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
i think it looks better than the old profile,, get with the time people,,,,,ha ha ha hah a
October 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
This is stupid. I can’t see anyones profile anymore. Nice play, Yahoo. This is an improvement????????????? This is just screwing everybody up.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I can’t believe you guys did this. On yahoo! chat, some of us spent ages working on our profiles, and now all process is gone. Also, the new profile set up is horrible, you can’t even type in your own username at profiles.yahoo.com to do this. You’re going to lose lots of users, at least on chat.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
This new profile bites. There was nothing wrong with the old profiles.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I want my old profile back!!!! I really don’t like the new one at all. I miss my online status and the new one lost ALL my links and stuff that was on my old one. Not to mention it change my profile pic. I never had a Mash and I didn’t like 360. Just give us the option to take the new one or stay with the old. I for one want to stay with the old profile.
Thank You
October 16th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Brilliant… i take the time to set up 2 yahoo groups to run in conjunction with My websites , I have members apply to join and i cant even check out their profile BEFORE i approve then.
Just what numpty thought this was a good idea without even giving anyone advance warning ?
Hey dont answer that on the grounds of it may make you look even DUMBER than before ..if thats at all possible.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Here! Here!
October 16th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
DITTO What DOMME Said. HERE HERE!!! Applause Applause.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:09 am
apparently many people bow down to the Domme
maybe she can take away the soul of Yahoo?
oh wait, it’s already gone just like everyones profiles!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Obviously, many people don’t get what you’re trying to do.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
OK………Where is the blogging area???
Can we do a background????? If so…..HOW?
The way it is now is too plain and basically pointless if you can’t communicate, dress it up, or blog with it.
Am I missing something?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
i do not like not able to add a agif format image to my profile pic, can ony add a jpg or other related images. and miss the search for members tabs
October 16th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Where’s my profile card? Lol
October 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I agree with the idea Abigail made.
Also I want it to me easier so users can make “RP” (Role Play) profiles.
I like it but hate it mostly it just needs a lot of changes to it.
I can understand it’s still beta though.
the world of yahoo wouldn’t like what’s going on right now.
Here’s one suggestion coming from me I think that would make it easier for other member’s on yahoo. an option to change back to the old Yahoo! Profiles. like if that dislike it or not. without some suggestions the idea of the new profiles wont be complete at all.
Keep going Yahoo!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
What a horrible mess, Yahoo…. this should have come up with everyone’s “About Me” under “Settings”, set to “Anybody”. 98% of all profiles are currently unviewable, because no one knows how to fix their own profiles to make them visible, even to themselves. Most have to reload their pics, too, and I can’t find a “links” section, and the words in everyone’s profile are too small and are harder to find.
No, basically you’ve just ruined Yahoo Chat with this, as once again it looks like you’re deliberately trying to destroy it, by making it useless and unusable, as you’ve done nothing to limit the bots, recently.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Here here!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Not a very good idea to spring something this new without any warning. The new profiles are difficult to change and wholly unattractive. At least try to give warning before making such big changes to something so horrible.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
I’ll just jump in here real quick and echo everyone else’s grumblings. Over the past few months Yahoo’s “braintrust” slipped in like theives in the night and yanked some of the most enjoyable/fun chat rooms. Thanks to that, I lost alot of very very close dear friends. Likely they decided enough was enough and dumped Yahoo for a more TRUSTWORTHY internet provider. Need I mention NO expliation was given to us as to WHY the rooms just vanished? And now….this! I’ve had to delete all of my profiles that I’d worked so hard to create. But naturally, Yahoo won’t listen. They’ll continue to screw with things untill they go bankrupt from lack of users.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:52 am
The adult user rooms were taken, just as the user rooms were ome years back, due to pedophiles….only this time it was one particular pedophile, who, as it turned out, was a freaking cop. But it’s okay to allow the gay adult rooms, and I believe the ‘married’ adult rooms .. lol….as if the pedos won’t now definitely hang out in the younger crowd rooms that are listed under the romance category. So…yahoo is now a porn bot pimp, a lousy site, and an admin that didn’t know a good thing when they had it.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:11 am
“Thanks to that, I lost alot of very very close dear friends.”
No, you didn’t. If they had really been your very very close dear friends, you’d know how to contact them outside of a chat room. Go join a club and make some actual friends.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
WE WANT OUR OLD PROFILES BACK>>>NOT FAIR OUR OLD PROFILES HAVE BEEN DELETED!!!!!!!!!!! SOME OF US WORKED HARD ON THEM. PLEASE REGENERATE IT THE WAY IT WAS WITH OUR OLD PROFILES LOOKING LIKE THEY DID BEFORE YOU CHANGED THIS. THANKS
October 17th, 2008 at 9:42 am
They have NOT been deleted- just go thru and try and update, you will find your information!
I just would like to see the date joined and updated again. I have had my acct for 10 yrs and I liked seeing that!
October 16th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
It seems find but I would like to find oout hoe to go and read someone’s profile
October 16th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Mustacho,
You can currently see a person’s limited profile prior to adding them as a connection. This displays the person’s name, display image, and current status message.
Once you’ve been added as a connection you’ll be able to view your contact’s full profile.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
The point of a profile for me was to be able to see something about a person before replying to a blind “hi” from someone I do not know. Obviously, if I don’t know the person, I will not add them. Does this mean I will never see the profile of a person messaging me out of the blue, Melissa?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
So yes i agree. with the thousands of bots messaging all the time. and i used to be able to click” view profile” and tell a little clue .. wether its totally blank and just been created. Or some info about a person.. So now we are supposed to totally sucomb to the relentless battery of cam-grils, bots, and general weirdo’s .. This system will been acient history if you guys do get a handle on this very fast. I have been with and loyal to yahoo since there has been a yahoo. Todays shenanigans are a FAIL. if current interface behavior continues, and some aspects of the old setup are not very quickly restored/ added. I and I’m sure thousands of people are goning to dump Yahoo, like it was a pornado.. rember those.
Signed,
One of the very first yahoo users EVER in the history of yahoo.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
James,
Yes– this means you’ll only be able to see a user’s limited profile before adding them UNLESS they have set their permissions to “Anyone.”
You can do this by logging into your Profile, clicking on “Settings” (it’s in the top right corner, or at the bottom of the Updates panel) and then clicking “Permissions.” From here, you can update your “About Me,” “My Updates,” and “Guestbook” permissions.
Currently, the default settings for all users is for each of these areas to only be viewable by your connections.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 3:36 am
so what u r saying Melissa….is that we have to put up with these stupid bots…..all the time now ??? don’t u know,,,,they will figure out who to get around that ?????? PUT THINGS BACK THE WAY THEY WERE,,,,,,,an STOP…..messing with something that was good,,because I an thinking for going to another site,,,an STOP using yahoo..altogether,,,,,,
October 17th, 2008 at 5:06 am
OK I found the settings and I change it so anyone can view and that does nothing but get the oops message. besides the fact that I cant get my profile to be anything but blank??????????FIX IT!!!!!!!!
October 17th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Shannon,
Are you still getting the oops message? Definitely a bug and one we can fix I just want to verify that it still exists. I’m so sorry for all of this headache. Please let me know if you are still having this problem so we can fix it asap.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Oops, I’m wrong. It’s not a bug. It means you have not merged your identities. They are preparing a blog post now that will tell you how to do it. If you need help faster, email profiles-help at cc.yahoo-inc.com and they can give you the instructions. Sorry I wasn’t more help initially!
October 16th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I agree. I don’t reply to people without filled in profiles. Because of this change, now I can’t see anything about them without first adding them. This defeats the whole purpose of having a profile in the first place! All of the profile data should be public. I will never add someone until i know who they are, and now i can’t learn about them before accepting theire request. Totally stupid!
October 16th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
COMPLETELY AGREE.
October 17th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Seconded. The sheer level of incompetence displayed by this change alone is indicative of a company that doesn’t even know how its own product is used.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Thank you Melissa for your imput. Very well appreciated
October 17th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Mustacho,
You can currently see a person’s limited profile prior to adding them as a connection. This displays the person’s name, display image, and current status message.
if they were already a “connection” why do WE only see the “limited profile?” Not all users have time in their lives to go back and re-enter all the data that Yahoo! DUMPED
Once you’ve been added as a connection you’ll be able to view your contact’s full profile.
BOOOGUS
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Sorry Melissa but people cant even see a limited profile. All they get is oops nothing to see here..blah blah blah…I also tried clicking where it said click here to change status and all it did was highlight the message to click here to change status…Dont want to burst anyones bubble but this new change really blows (wanted to say something else but it did say no profanity allowed)
October 17th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Mellisa, I never add anyone without checking their profile, and I am sure this is true for many of your users, this change will stop a lot of people adding
October 17th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
But Melissa, we want to be able to search for people to PUT ON our contacts list, not just the people who are already on our list.
I have, as one of MY FAVORITES on I.E. Yahoo top level advanced search. I used to be able to go there and look for people. That page has now disappeared, and all I get is a sign in page and when I sign in it goes to my own profile. The people at yahoo help have told me that if I click on FIND in any profile, I can then search for people. BUT they also seem to think that that FIND button is in every profile, and it is NOT. And even when I click FIND in my profile there are no choices as how to search. Please listen to all of these experienced yahoo users and stop being so darned flippant and serene about the gargantuan bloody mess you have made of things. Just to back.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
frig in garbage
This is just screwing everybody up including me
Are you trying to get rid of users and advitisers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If so tell us
October 16th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I don’t mind layout changes, but keep everyone’s photos and information intact! Making us re-post info and photos is very irritating. Sucks.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Over the past several weeks the Romance/By Location / Florida rooms have been being frequented by users posting in the rooms or having their profile info showing them to be minors, 12 to 17 year olds, in the instances I have personally seen – all females (or law enforcement?) This change in profile usage seems rather backwards – the profiles were being used to let potential friends know something about each person – now, the only people who can see your profile are those who already know you ? Apparently Yahoo is bent on making it easier for minors to be places they have no need to be, and users are never supposed to meet new people they might have interest in? I’m afraid I don’t see the ?logic?
October 16th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I hate the new yahoo profile page. It really sucks. I like the old profile bring it back.
October 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
i don’t like this at all , i would perfer to have the old one as it was , i sure am not happy about this change and i know a lot of older people won’t bre either
October 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
It is apparent that as much time, effort and thought was put into this change as was put into solving the spam and bot problem in chat……….. JUST SLIGHTLY MORE THAN NONE!
I think at very minimum there should have been some warning of the changes to allow feeback. Also the original data in the old profiles should have automatically been populated into the new ones.
Not a real smooth move all the way around.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
This new version is an absolute piece of cr@p, Seems all the previous posters here have more or less listed the same problems and thoughts I have on this new version. Having anyone see your basic profile info eliminates about 90% of the trivial msgs.
Either put it back to what it was, or just tell everyone to go to a different provider. If i go I wont be back, and I’ll take my friends along too. I’ll give you till Friday.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
gee thanks for the warning typical yahoo heavyhandedness. enough is enough GOODBYE YAHOO !!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Another incredible blunder by Yahoo. Hey, I know this is off-topic, but good job on the Captchas guys. Really took care of those bots.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Simple, and to the point…(1) Are everyone’s Profile, gone..??…(2) Pleasse let everyone effected, know what the heck is going on, and what to expect (3) Yahoo, the ball is in your court
Ward
smiles_tnmale123
October 17th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Ward,
No, your profile isn’t gone. You (and everyone else) just needs to go in and update your profile by going to: http://profiles.yahoo.com/
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Slight tinkering and some changes after getting user’s opinions is one thing, but to eliminate important features is another thing. There is now no way to find people you do not already know from around the world. My suggestion to you, Miss Smarty, is to simply read these comments and realize that most of the people have been here a lot longer than you have, my dear. Go Back, go back, go back!
October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Melissa, you are not listening to these people. Apparently your “system” isn’t working for them! As for me, I stopped going to chat because there were nothing except bots in them but that DOESN’T mean that I don’t want to make NEW friends but I want a lot of detail about a person BEFORE I waste my time adding them only to find out that I have no interest in talking to them! I haven’t tried “Search” but I have the feeling I’ll have no luck with it! Trust me, I WILL let it be known whether I accomplish a search!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Give it time guys.
I quite like the new lay out but I do agree that the font size needs to be a little bigger to make it easier to read the information.
A big improvement would be to make it impossible to copy the pictures we post on our profiles. Any chance?
October 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Sue, can you explain in more detail what you mean by not allowing users to copy your photos?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
There is no longer a Member Directory. There is no way to search other than key name. You can not search by City, State, Interest, and Names. This is what I would call a down, dirty and cheap desigh. The old Member Directory was straight forward, simple, and easy to use. When it was up. Which has been more down than up in the last 2 years.
Bring back the old Member Directory search please.
Also I like how you allow non yahoo members to give input. Edit on the join discussion page forces users to input full email, Vs just defaulting in @yahoo.com. Yahoo should only be looking for input back from yahoo members.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
It wasn’t broke. Stop fixing it.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
But it must have been broken as some geek decided to fix it
Seriously though, people have been placing information that they are happy for the public to know. Now there is nothing that people can see.
Yahoo created a group recently for selected group owners and moderators. Why can’t they use their own lines of communication?
October 17th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Nice name
Anyone can set their own profile to ‘anybody’ but we didn’t want to set everyone default to ‘anybody’ can view because we wanted to err on the side of privacy and then give users the option to go public if they chose.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Yeah, ok, but without a proper way to search for people, it does not make any difference, because no one who does not already know you cannot find you anyway, you – blankety blank blank *^%*^*!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I don’t know why Yahoo can’t just leave well enough alone. The old message board format was fine as it was; but Yahoo changed it and it was not for the better. Many message board participants left the boards altogether after the changes and the boards are not nearly as interesting and lively as they used to be. Now Yahoo has decided to “improve” the user profile pages. And the result is as big a mess as was the change in the message board format. I am using Yahoo less and less every time they “improve” things. Please quit “fixing” what isn’t broke, Yahoo.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Instead of deleting everyones old profile you should have given the option ot upgrade or if you changed to settings or the look of the page you should have left people’s information & photos intact with the development of this new profile. Yahoo you are really upsetting your users!!!! You have taken peoples stuff that they worked on their last profile & deleting it without any warnig..VERY UNFAIR You should make the old profiles accessable again with the option to upgrade to this ‘new’ profile!!!!!! FIX THIS PLEASE…DO SOMETHING FOR THE SATISFACTION OF YOUR USERS!!!!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
This is an atrocity. I am not sure what Yahoo’s business model is, but this has been a comedy of errors as far as I’m concerned.
With no warning in 2005, the user rooms vaporize. Then the photo hosting goes to Flickr, while profile functionality remains partial at best.
And let us not forget that we have the glorious CAPTCHA software, meant to lock out bots and booters. Users can now enter the wrong code three times, only to be told the room is full.
FULL OF BOTS.
OF BOTS.
BOTS.
Does anyone see the track record here? And now, again with no advance warning whatsoever, EVERYONE’S PROFILE IS GONE, which has all but eradicated, literally overnight, the entire online role-playing community in the “Entertainment and Arts” and “Games” network.
Thanks, guys, you’ve been looking out for us since Day 1. *sarcastic thumbs up*
October 17th, 2008 at 2:10 am
First of all, I would like to make it clear that I’m a senior agent who works for the Customer Care department of a major wireless provider. I personally have spoke out against bad decisions on the part of my company, and helped avoid some serious mistakes from being made. Despite this, some of them still happen, and I get to deal with the backlash.
Every day, I go through hundreds of extremely hostile customers as a consequence, and I do sympathize with the customer as a result. After all, they’re hostile because WE SCREWED UP. As an employee of that company, I am paid to take responsibility on behalf of the company, even though I did not make any mistakes.
Those of you tearing into Melissa, please – chill. She has certain parameters in her job that Yahoo is paying her (or her company) to meet. The answers that she does and does not give you are not her own to make this personal.
Don’t forget, it was YAHOO!’s management staff, directly overseeing the that made this decision, and not the employees we, the customer, will ever speak to. THESE are the people I would rather see more of you hating on.
Now, that opinion out of the way. I do want to voice my own opinion.
This is suicide, Melissa, on Yahoo’s part. Business and advertising suicide. Anyone who reads Wikipedia or the users who have been with Yahoo for more than a few years, can easily recite the comedy of errors that Chat has gone through.
I could go on, and on, about photo hosting, and broken profiles, and the useless captcha that’ll only let bots in while it tells you the room you want is full. But if you’re reading these posts, I’m pretty sure you’re aware of these issues already.
Role-players are a more valuable commodity than you think. They deliver meaningful content and colorful profiles that would make your chat rooms a much more colorful environment and a more intellectual grade of conversation. This unique demographic has already lost so much when the user rooms went down, even more when the public rooms were flooded with spam, and now this.
I must also make a more personal complaint – thanks to these unwarranted changes, information that I have provided to Yahoo in the expectation that it would kept private (including my picture) is now compromised.
This is a clear breach of Yahoo!Chat’s Privacy Policy and their Terms and Conditions of use.
I would like to use my right, as your customer, to request that my concerns are escalated to your supervisor or production manager, to make sure that they are fully aware of this problem.
As an additional request, I would like the contact address and phone number (if available) for Yahoo!’s legal department to be published in reply to my post.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:34 am
OkayTravis. Melissa is not responsible for these changes., I understand that, but she invites any unkind comments by being the messenger. If it is the powers that be taht are to blame, let them be here to answer the remarks concerning this assinine fiasco. Let thme take the hammering that is being directed at Melissa. Let them see what about 99% of the people have to say about their so called new and improved system. Give us back our profiles and chat rooms. Quit making unwanted changes. I have been using Yahoo for at least 10 years and have seen many unwanted changes.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Travis,
Please email me directly. I am a community manager here at Yahoo, just like Melissa, and I’ve offered to jump in and help her manage all of these responses. If you have privacy concerns, they need to be handled via email and not on a public blog post (for your safety). My email is rtippins at yahoo-inc.com. I’ll make sure your request gets to legal asap.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Thank you, Robyn.
However, I have the information I need now, and I will be contacting your legal department directly soon enough. I’ve also already forwarded my concerns to Jim Stoneham through your corporate secretary.
I appreciate your help.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Please just go back, quit trying to change things like this. Some of us worked hard for Roleplay profiles and now they are all lost and with no real warning. You could have at least moved all info to the new system if nothing else, this is just a pain in the ass really. You can change stuff like this but you can not seem to get rid of the porn bots that litter the rooms. You get rid of user rooms when they seemed to be doing a better job at limiting stuff like that than anything else.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
IS there any way to see the “complete profile” of someone else while playing a game? This used to be a fun way to meet people. Now all i get is access to my own profile. HELP
October 16th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
i think this sucks … i have worked hard on my profile and my 360 go back the way we were
October 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hey duckfly32,
Sorry you’re frustrated, but don’t worry! Your 360 profile is still in tact– this update only applies to your old profile on Yahoo!, not on 360.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Hey Melisa ducky…. take the hint… no one likes this un-anounced change…
October 17th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
This change was unannounced? I seem to remember that on October 16 of last year, there was an announcement on the Y!360 blog that there would be a universal profile system (which is what happened today with the new profiles from Yahoo!) for Yahoo. If you want to look at the information (which states that it would be in Early 2008), then go here: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q–?cq=1&p=49226
With this, can you still say this was unannounced?
October 17th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Ok… so the 360 users had a chance of finding out. I’ve never had a 360 profile and never wanted one like many others on here, so we had NO warning that this change was being made.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Well folks, I think Melissa made it as clear as it is going to get. Yahoo made the changes! They are not interested in your complaints! And they do not care squat what you think, believe, or do. Yahoo has taken it upon themselves to “update” their system. I think most of us would call it more on the order of “hijack”. But after all, it is THEIR system and they can do what they want with it! And Melissa has made that absolutely clear!
Well, thanks Yahoo for the “good times” (and the previous frustrations and heartaches as so many have informed you and of which I am certain you are well aware)! But as for me, I am gone. I refuse to be part of a system that, at the very minimum, does NOT ease a user into the new “update”.
I suggest that everyone that is “upset” and “frustrated” (as Melissa so kindly pointed out above) simply go look for another service. When and IF you can find another service that does what you liked from Yahoo, then use it, come back here and post it, and urge your friends to do the same!
Thanks Melissa for your “help”! (sarcasm intended)
PS, I am not certain how Melissa got “stuck” with monitoring this comment list but probably Yahoo said, “Melissa, YOU WILL MONITOR THE COMMENT PAGE, OR OUT THE DOOR!!!” So, she probably knows what it like folks!! ghahahahahaha
October 16th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Genious! Personally: I’m SICK of losing info, pictures, friends over dimwitted and half brained yahoo “updates”.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:29 am
if a user, whom you dont know just yet, has a yahoo360 account, how does one find out? there are NO links that i am aware of..unless all yahoo users ALWAYS check their yahoo profiles EVERY DAMNED DAY!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Rich,
If you want to check to see if your contacts have a 360 profile you can go here: http://360.yahoo.com/login.html?.done=http://360.yahoo.com/ and search using the search box at the bottom.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I never downloaded 360 because I liked the old profile system and the user chatrooms. So this new system is a total pile of horse manure. No Melisa. Not any good at all.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Dale, you don’t download 360, you create it.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Okay, what in gods name were you thinking when you sprung this on everyone without so much as a warning? You completely destroy the old profiles, some of which were worked hard on for years and you didn’t leave anything but a 500 word blurb of the old ones intact? Obviously this profile change is going poorly based on the what 38 negative comments? Yahoo constantly does things that make it seem as if they are trying to drive buisness away, of course there are those people that are loyal to their favorite messengers and chat programs but even they can only handle so much before they say enough is enough. When you get this much negative feed back think about how much more there is that isn’t being seen or written out, think about all those people that sign on, look at their profile, and just say “F*** THIS” and delete their account or simply plan on never signing in again. Did you consider asking us if we wanted a profile change? Did you consider asking people if they wanted to participate in the beta test before you simply changed things? And what of those of us that had multiple profiles on one account, those second and third profiles are gone, along with all the pictures and information on them. As for the minors, you’ve made it so much easier for children to play themselves off as adult, and made it easier for adults to play themselves off as minors, you took away the user rooms because of a law suit having to deal with sexual predators and now you’ve simply made it that much easier for them. I have to say this is quite possibly the biggest mistake Yahoo has ever made, and it has now justified its own nickname of Yahell, instead of trying to make the profiles new and to conform with the trend of myspace and face book, why not simply expand the old profiles but keep them uniquely Yahoo? Yahoo 360 profiles were a good idea and went over well, but you gave us the OPTION of using them and keeping our old profiles. Honestly what were you thinking? I’m just in complete and utter awe of this whole thing and I do believe that Yahoo is now destroying itself.
As any teenager or gamer would say ” Epic fail, /wrist, go die in a fire, L2program, WTF Mate?”
October 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
If the new profile page is an attempt to control spambots, bingo you have made a good try. It is simple, no normal users to click on the spam links, no spambots. Pssssst, with far less users, messenger upgrades will be needed rarely.
Wouldnt it have made far more sense to just block all non-yahoo related links on profiles?
With any thought at all a total destruction of yahoo profiles, and yahoo chat as we know it, wouldnt have happened.
BTW, does Yahoo have an “Idiot of the Month” club and rewards?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
this is almost as dumb as the captcha code to stop bots.more bots than before. now you screw up everyones hard work on there profiles. no where to place a flickr link or any other. 360 sucks…only to copy and paste. who has time for that.far as viewing someone elses profile by adding them to your connections.we want to view them, not make them part of our own profiles. lots of hard work..GONE.thanks yahoo..
October 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Yeah, but that had nothing to do with Yahoo. The creators of the bots developed a program that allowed them to get through the Captcha, so you can’t blame them for that.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
YAHOO: You should respond to all these negative comment prompty!!! You are going to lose many users over this if you don’t respond to all this negative feedback !!! DO SOMETHING YAHOO…You should satisfy the majority of your users & make the old profiles accessable again with the option to change to this new profile!!! Users had saved a lot of information & photos on the profiles you decided to take away without warning!!!! YOU NEED TO ADDRESS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your company has made a major error to change something in this manner!!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
As usual yahoo has to fix what isnt broken ..and in the process, just make it more of a mess. This new profile sucks and I for one wont be bothering to fill it out.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
DISASTEROUS!
What about Group owners/moderators? When you have 1,000+ members, and Approving 10-20 new members at a time, and you CAN’T VERIFY REQUIRED INFORMATION!!!!
This “New/and Improved” system…..STINKS!
When the Groups decide to move….you will LOSE THOUSANDS of potential customers for your advertisers!
What a stupid idea…!
October 17th, 2008 at 12:35 am
im guessing they are trying to prove that the economy is doing baldy. when you lose user hits on ad’s you do tend to lose revenue?
ohh. need to check yahoo stocks to see what is happening…..brb…maybe!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Once again, Yahoo is offering an improvement that is not one. Is there some sort of corporate strategy in place to drive the remaining people out of Yahoo chat? If we wanted social networking, we would have upgraded to 360 pages a long time ago. The clean, simple, readable format of the previous profiles were perfect for an at-a-glance sense of the people we were meeting. If we want them to know more about us, we will tell them during chat. D’oh.
I know you will not be bringing the old ones back. But you should know you are, once again, alienating the diehards who have stuck with you through all your other unnecessary improvements. You may just lose us this time. And lose any chance that we might buy premium services or other Yahoo products. What a terrific approach to customer service !
October 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I hate it. I really do. Bring back the old profile format or at least offer it as an alternative, please? There are enough MySpaces and Facebooks for this “networking” bullcrap; PLEASE bring back my old Yahoo! profile.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for the vast improvement to the profile system,..
Now I can’t edit any of my alternate ID’s mainly because I like my privacy. Because there are so many spam-bots lurking in so many of the public interaction sites in the Yahoo Network.
I’ve dedicated one of my ID’s solely for my cat, it WAS an excellent deterent to the numerous perverts & deviants who constantly lurk in the games lobbies with their vile comments & degrading insults.
Another alternate ID is me, except I’d omitted specific details to preserve my Identity, that a clever ID thief would use to steal my personal info that really isn’t anyone’s business to know unless you were out to exploit in one way or another & ruin the individual’s own privacy.
Thanks a bunch.
Not all improvements are for the better. Thank you for not sending us advanced notice about the changes and the consequences of these changes to our lives.
If I had known – perhaps I could delete or edit information. But now I can’t.
Because the way its set up now, the links lead back to my personal profile. very convieneint if you’re an ID thief & impossible to share information with genuine close friends.
Thanks for making a great UN-improvement!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
OMG ! Who’s bright idea with this to change the profile format?
You didn’t request input from the owners/moderators.
a] I don’t like my name spelled out for all to see.
b] insufficient info shown for specialized groups
c] the privacy has been disclosed.
BC Don
October 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Once again, Yahoo is offering an improvement that is not one. Is there some sort of corporate strategy in place to drive the ( few ) remaining people out of Yahoo chat? If we wanted social networking, we would have upgraded to 360 pages a long time ago. The clean, simple, readable format of the previous profiles were perfect for an at-a-glance sense of the people we were meeting. If we want them to know more about us, we will tell them during chat. D’oh.
I know you will not be bringing the old ones back. But you should know you are, once again, alienating the diehards who have stuck with you through all your other unnecessary “improvements.” You may just lose us this time. And lose any chance that we might buy premium services or other Yahoo products. What a terrific approach to customer service !
October 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I’m unhappy because all the work I put into my profiles, all the stuff I wrote out, it’s all gone now…I did a lot of roleplaying, and now all of that work is just…gone. I’m very disappointed.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Elrion,
Your data isn’t gone– go to http://profiles.yahoo.com and go through the new user flow. This will import in your old data into your new profile.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I love how Melissa is responding to a very few select posts only. Why isn’t there another Yahoo staffer besides Melissa in here taking the heat for this snafu?
No notification to users? Check.
Pointless “upgrade”? Check.
Needless suffering for the users? Check.
“Fixing” things that don’t need fixing? Check.
Yep, it has all the earmarks of another fine Yahoo upgrade.
Instead of worrying so much about the lipstick on the pig why don’t you get to the real root of the problem and get rid of the pig? Boot the damn bots, keep the kids AND the pervies out and provide a service that the MAJORITY of your users want. Stop providing what you THINK your users want.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
So how are we supposed to see if someone is online now without being a “connection”? If I wanted that, I would add them on Myspace. Why was all our information taken away? Please change it back.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I’m not impressed… some warning would have been nice… give me the option… one reason that I never took the time to fool with 360….
TAKE IT AWAY!!
October 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Where is my old profile? I put a lot of effort into it as well and all you’ve done erase it. I, and I susupect many others, will not take the time. You’ve lost me unless you can tell me how to get my profile back as it was and to look at others as they were. I don’t mind the reformatting, but where is my information and everyone else’s information? There is no help and no explanation. I think I speak for everyone when I say if you can’t give my other stuff back, I’m gone for good.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
well i have been playing around with it for a couple of hours… had help from those that have successfully edited their profiles. right now my profile shows as if i had it set to “hide”… but it’s not hidden… when i change the permissions from anything but “my connections”… then i get the “Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile.” message. any help?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
i don’t like it, another reason to use another chat service. if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
it sucks, dont like it at all ,
October 16th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Oh, and another thing. The ONLY reason yahoo ever got any hits from me was because of profiles that I had and could search. With Myspace, and various other social websites out there, the reason you got hits from me was because it was easy to use and I didn’t have to make a big investment to use it. Now that you have tossed out all my stuff, I have no reason to ever go to anything on yahoo again, period. Especially not for meeting people.
I don’t want to be disrespectful and use profanity here, but what does your willingness to discard all of our information say about your respect for us? It’s say you don’t care. Give us back our old profiles as an option, or we will all just leave. We could have worked with the new change if you left our information there, but if your IT guys think we are going to migrate, you are sadly mistaken.
Would you please respond to this so that we can all understand your thinking?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
this was all a horrible idea. honestly, if I don’t find my profile information fixed by tomorrow i am uninstalling your crap and thats it
October 16th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Hey guys, I don’t think throwing a tantrum on a blog is going to fix things.
Keep up the good work, yahoo.
WERE STAR FOX.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Keep drinking the red kool-aid there Were Star Fox. How long have you been on the Yahoo payroll?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
figures, u try to fix what is fine as it is….instead of getting rids of the bots, which is far more important…….good job geezzzzzz
October 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
So yes wait NO!! what are you thinking! . with the thousands of bots messaging all the time. and i used to be able to click” view profile” and tell a little clue .. wether its totally blank and just been created. Or some info about a person.. So now we are supposed to totally sucomb to the relentless battery of cam-grils, bots, and general weirdo’s .. along with the weak spam filters we have already been dealing with since their conception. This system will been acient history if you guys do get a handle on this very fast. I have been with and loyal to yahoo since there has been a yahoo. Todays shenanigans are a FAIL. if current interface behavior continues, and some aspects of the old setup are not very quickly restored/ added. I and I’m sure thousands of people are goning to dump Yahoo, like it was a pornado.. rember those.
Signed,
One of the very first yahoo users EVER in the history of yahoo.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hmm.
“Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile. ” seems to be pretty common when trying to view profiles of people who have edited them.
This isn’t very intuitive either for something just forced on people, it’s not obvious there is the little “settings” link to allow you to open up your profile, as there are many settings in other places.
It should also have copied info from old profiles, not deleted it.
This is a really poor example of quality assurance and roll out – you should hang your heads in shame.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Every time something is going good and test proven yahoo has to change it and mess everything up. Every one in the world dont do blogs. We should have had a choice to keep our old proflile.
Does melissa have to justifer her job by changing stuff.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I second this post.
i’ve been around yahoo since there has been a yahoo . It was like a dependable staple , this turn of events had turned it into like a useles,, even makes us more vurnerable to all the spam, bots, cam-grils that messages profile thats ever been created, The dangers of now haveing to add someone before you even get a chance to tell if they are a scam, spam, stalker, ect ect,, if you dont understand what i just said , then you need to kick this reply up to the next level of intelligense in your department.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
WHY did you have to change it.. For us Rp’ers.. every thing went down hill in a had basket this is the stupiedest UPDATE you’ve ever done.. Can you at lest make it to were we can go back to the classic !! I mean COME ON.. It’s not right You didenvt even Inform us you were doing this… It really pisses me off !!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
you cant police your chat rooms and leave most to get booted or ridiculed in chat and then you change a profile page that was working fine……..please put it back to the way it was before…….i cant even list my age………stupid idea on the part of yahoo which again is out of touch with the people who use their service……….want some advice……sell to microsoft…….they know better how to run a chat program….you obviously dont
October 16th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
aaaarrrrgggggghhhhh…
Have you heard of the phrase “Better the Devil you know”? In this case I suspect that placing your head in a vat of acid would be better!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Will there be a simpler way to add all of my friends from my 360 page over to this profile and also will you be eliminating Yahoo 360 once this new profile works it’s way up to full speed?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Yahoo – you need to learn to COMMUNICATE with people. Tell us what is going to happen before you start to implement these changes. Make it clear to all that the changes have happened. You have announced f### all and really p##### off thousands of people – your customers!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
This is the worse thing I think i’ve ever seen you do to yahoo profiles or chat.. an I’ve seen a lot through the years.. what ever are was you thinking.. if we wanted a 360 we would of made one
October 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
i dont like the new profile way of doing it i dont like it showing my real name
October 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Hi Kathy,
You can update this by logging into your profile, clicking on “Edit my Profile” and then click on “Basics.”
Here, you can update your display name preferences, as well as your location and age details.
-Melissa
October 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Melissa ust be a know-it-all. She seems to have an answer for everything. EXCEPT what people want and use on Yahoo.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
This is terrible. Why would you make this “upgrade” without warning anyone? Normal profile users have lost all of the information in their profiles. Some people spend a lot of time on their profiles, and have creative writing in them that they can’t reproduce. It’s completely thoughtless to just wipe all of the text (except for a teensie bit of the hobbies section, and the cool links) without giving the users a chance to save it first. Why would you do that? What’s wrong with you?
October 16th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
THAT’S IT!!!! If I’d gotten at least 24 hour warning I could have saved the info on all my roleplay profiles but now it’s all gone . Yahell deserves to be burnt down to ashes. SELL TO MICROSOFT!!!! I don’t even like them but they sure as hell understand what customer service is!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Another bad decision by Yahoo carried out with no warning to customers or attempt to gather input. Why was everything deleted from our original profiles? Is there any way to get any of it back? I understand this is an attempt to be more like Facebook/Myspace, but perhaps you should keep in mind the loyal users who’ve been here before the rise of those sites.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I haaaaaaaaaaate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
99% of the people here despise the change!!
Add my input except My thoughts are not for public use.
Give the users their profiles BACK!
Require that Profiles be completed! NO EMPTY ONES!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
i do not ike this at all…no one can see my profile…says oops nothing to see here…i like 360 with my blogs …but i dont like this and trying to figure out if my name is going to be seen…scares me…
October 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Jeanie,
To view your profile and see all the info you had on your old profile, go to http://profiles.yahoo.com/ ; you will then go through the New User Experience and have the ability to import your information into the new profile.
Hope this helps,
Ophelia
October 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
This update would have been a lot better if an option was implemented to switch between the old layout and the new, instead of making us all use a profile format we may or may not like.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
if they worked would be nice but as with yahoo, any beta sucks, and along with other issues, yahoo seems to want to force you to make friends, i dont want any friggen friends i dont choose. so enough woith you crap and get serious for once
October 16th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
yahoo are always messing with stuff like this why dont thay leave it alone there are a lot of ppl who dont understand what thay r doing on a computer put it back as it was
October 16th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Whats happenedto profiles? I want to ocheck pending members and all the profiles I checked, including my own, now have NO information on them whatsoever, beyond the used ID. What gives? Why does iot say beta ion it? has this been released unintentionally? If its intentional as above responses seem to indicate, I could well be heading across to a competitor with my group. This has to be yahoo’s biggest mistake in a long time.
Please see the coffee and revert back to previous profiles, at least you come up with a way to import existing profile data (and photos) into a new version.
Will
PS Beta’s are not supposed to be seen by general users.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Hi Melissa,
As many have commented, Yahoo! has chosen to change to a beta of Profiles without warning the users and without input from the users as a group (perhaps you did ask some people for input, but nobody asked me or apparently anybody else who is commenting here).
As others have commented, you seem to be ignoring the concerns and complaints and responding to only those items that you can put a positive spin on. Why is that? <– NOTE: This is the one and only question in my message, please do respond to it — publicly! Thanks!
Best,
Casimir
October 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Hi Casimir,
You’re right– there are a lot of comments posted here, and a lot of the users commenting here are displeased with the change.
I’m not only responding to the positive issues/comments– instead, I’m addressing user/feature questions so as to help users better understand the product and use it in a functional manner.
We are listening (and reading all of yours and other’s comments) and taking them all to heart. Thanks for taking the time to share.
-Melissa
October 16th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Melissa,
I feel sorry for you. I really do. You have to take all this “hate mail” from a bunch of people that you don’t know about something that I doubt you had little if any input on.
May I suggest an alternative:
1) Hand your supervisor the keyboard, and say you type awhile…..I am tired of getting screamed at.
2) Post a reliable email address or chat ID of a corporate IT officer or someone of equal position that put this into place so we, the users, can politely inform them of the severity and plain carelessness of the change.
3) I know that you cannot answer all the posts, but I do believe that you are doing what the corporate image requires….trying to positive all the negatives. Sometimes you just have to shoot the limping horse. No way to make him well again.
4) send me personally the email of someone at Yahoo!! that listens to what users want. I would be more than happy to explain it to them. Apparently they are so out of touch with the real people that pay their bills.
5) Finally, Melissa perhaps an open apology froim Yahoo!! would at least quell some of the hard feelings……..I think some damage control is on order.
October 17th, 2008 at 6:57 am
I agree to all but the last of your suggestions. An apology does not bring back all that Yahoo has taken away. Maybe Melissa should find another job so she does not take this abuse. Let the powers that be handle all the negative comments.
October 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Feel free to email me. My email is rtippins at yahoo-inc.com. I’m a CM like Melissa, but I’ll forward your request to the appropriate person.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I think Yahoo should consentrate more on getting rid of the spam bots and cleaning up the room,Nothing was wrong with the profile page…why change it?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Cleaning up the rooms? Not a problem….the way things are going, all the rooms will be yanked with no warning.