Tutorial: Creating and deleting an alias

November 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am

Again, Melissa, please let your design team know that on top of the poor performance of the new profiles, any design that requires this much explanation is going to be bad for a social network. This is too complicated and in many ways pointless. People could pick up the old system with no effort or tutorial. THAT was good design. This new format needs to end or at least needs to go back to something SIMILAR to the old system. The more Yahoo insists on the new profiles the more they hurt themselves.

Please people sign the petition and stop the abuses Yahoo is putting us though. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Oldyahooprofiles/

November 6th, 2008 at 11:15 am

Sorry for repeating the obvious but this should have been done day one of the new profile system, computer geeks tend to forget that most people do not have a degree in software engineering. By the way did the recent fiasco scare off google from the advertising deal or was it all yahoos users moving to google so they did not need to deal with Yahoo as they got it for free!?

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November 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Keep it up … everyone is complaining as usual … but just keep it up .. and I hope that you find a way to eliminate spammers once and for all … the spammers in Yahoo! chat, profiles, games … and all other services …
Good luck

November 6th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

The changes that removed completely independent identites within one account STINK ON ICE! This “aliases” garbage is just that – garbage! USELESS! Bring back my INDEPENDENT profiles!

November 6th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

GOD BLESS AMERICA

November 6th, 2008 at 10:45 pm

do what you feel you must to make it better, I don’t understand it yet, ut if I want to stay here I will enenully learn it

November 7th, 2008 at 12:25 am

Please try working through the tutorial again, this time using a BT Yahoo! account. These paid-for accounts are a total disaster area. There’s no id card, you can’t add aliases or remove the preset ones BT have given you. The ‘Help’ is worse than useless.

Whenever you tick an alias to make it visible, the system forces you to tick your main id as well. This replicates the problems that existed on the old profile system.

Ditch the id carousels.The new default icons are ugly. There are problems adding and deleting id pictures. On all systems using the carousel except the new profile system, you can have apply changes to one Yahoo product only, or to all products. The new profile system doesn’t match this standard.

The default should be to change for one product only. It’s too easy to apply the change globally by accident. Then you can only get back to separate pictures by going into every product individually.

BT has recently had the audacity to change its terms and conditions so that people who ditch its broadband service will shortly be charged for the privilege. I have spent hours on the phone to them over the years about these problems, usually being fobbed off with lame duck excuses. My emails to Yahoo! usually get redirected to BT, even when the problem encountered is not with a BT product.

Forget trying to share ids across different products. I was convinced ages ago you couldn’t do it satisfactorily. The new profiles prove this even more convincingly.

November 7th, 2008 at 6:00 am

This new system is very very bad . Still not able to put in a photo in my profile . My personal info looks like it got in there o.k., but even attempting to add a photo is nothing but failure. My puter is on Windows XP system and i have internet explorer version 6 . The old way was just soooooooooooo much easier to work with . BRING IT BACK OR AT LEAST SOMETHING SIMILAR TO IT . Maybe I need a degree in Computer Science to understand how all this new thing works out . Naw, a college degree in computer science would still leave me confused and frustrated , gee , this isn’t fun anymore,

November 7th, 2008 at 10:51 am

Melissa,
with the att.net version of yahoo, I still cannot seem to find a way to delete an old alias. PLEASE HELP!!!!

November 7th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

I’m having the same problem can someone help, this is preventing me from joining a group I was invited too

November 7th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Many members of my group are still having difficulty with the profiles.
In fact – many members profiles when I go to check them out, show up as an error page or missing such as this member:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/nicolajane63uk

I am unable to tell this member how to correct her profile and make it show?

Please help charmainejensen@sympatico.ca – best email to reply back to me at. I want so much to help the members of my group.

Thanks so much… Charmaine Jensen-Voisine

November 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

Wouldn’t it just have been easier to add the social network features to the old profiles and letting the users opt into them if they wanted to? I think the nuking of everybody’s profiles is completely unacceptable and I decline to update my profile as I don’t want to join a social network.

November 8th, 2008 at 5:13 am

Melissa, is any of this dissent making it’s way back to those who can do something about it, or is it stopping with you?

November 8th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Hello,
I have a problem and your on-line assisted help can figure it out…..that makes the two of us. After watch your tutorial, printing pages for reference and just about everything else humanly possible I can access or change my aliases. MY page totally differs from yours and there is nothing I can do to change it. My yahoo is different than yours. So much so the pages you reference are NOT there on my screen. For one, I keep getting this EDIT.CLIENT.YAHOO each and everytime no matter what I do. It seems the changes to yahoo did not include me!!
Even your help line was amazed. What on God’s earth have ATT/Yahoo done?

My “Change Publicly Viewable Information” page has the follow URL ( https://edit.client.yahoo.com/edit_profile?stage=mc_edit_public&.scrumb=h/GLgS.Tr7x) and can not change aliases.

Please advise.
a not so happy camper

https://edit.client.yahoo.com/edit_profile?.scrumb=cvq9KOnri5s

November 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

I have a problem and Yahoo on-line help can’t correct it. They have never heard of not being able to access or change aliases.

I have followed your tutorial, printed pages for clarity and just about everything else humanly possible with no luck.
My pages are different that yours!

I keep getting this EDIT.CLIENT.YAHOO URL.

Change Publicly Viewable Information at the following URL (https://edit.client.yahoo.com/edit_profile;_ylt=AjymBfAQNl60CPL6twFrIqp0dQlG?stage=mc_edit_public&.scrumb=PxgjhHMj0E1) and I can’t access for change any of my aliases.
However there is an EDIT button and when I click it this comes up – Oops! Nothing to see here. Go back to your profile. My profile is in BETA – is that the problem? If so how can it be corrected?
Better yet – how can I access and change my aliases?

November 8th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

Thanks for the video tutorials.

Since I was directed here to give feedback, please pass this on to your development team:

Make the Yahoo! Avatars in the Profile Card animated and larger (at least as large as what’s shown on the Y!Avatar site). Thanks!

November 8th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

So! where is my? VOICE like my old Profile.

With kindest,
JR.. Patentee ‘120

November 9th, 2008 at 5:03 am

its a nice messanger but im having a problem,i dunno how to change my ** Nick Name ** for a chat room

November 9th, 2008 at 11:52 am

What can I say that hasn’t been said? I joined yahoo years ago when the user rooms were still around and frankly, I loved it. Now it feels to much like myspace and facebook and I hate it. Many of the people I knew have left because of this and I no longer go to any chat rooms and am wondering if I am wasting my time here.
Now I see that some adult rooms have also been removed and our profiles are well to be honest, crap. I never liked the 360 profiles you made because they were to networky for me and these are even worse.
I don’t come on yahoo to announce to the world all of my private information, but more and more I find I have to fight to prevent it being placed out there anyway.
The latest thing that bothers me is being sent pop ups saying that someone has sent me a personal message only to click the link and have yahoo personals want me to sign up. I have been married nearly 24 years and have no interest in yahoo personals or any other dating site. When I sent a report to yahoo personal customer support they replied saying someone would get back to me within 48 hours, and they did, another automated message saying they would get back to me within 24 hours. Unfortunately this is the normal stuff I am starting to expect from a once great service.
I just have to say, why try to fix something that wasn’t broken?

November 9th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

I am quite intelligent when it comes to working with computer software, however, this yahoo profiles has been the hardest thing to figure out. Nothing written or any links seem to fix the problem. I’ve been added to a group and receive the emails and when I go to actually look at my profile, it has a jarbled mess of numbers and letters, nothing of what my profile really is online. When going to add my profile to the group, it says to add a new profile, I type something in and it says there is nothing there to see with the link of my profile. I click the link and there is my profile. Any thoughts or suggestions? Is my account messed up or is there something I’m not seeing?

November 9th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

I can’t believe how the Big Y keeps taking straightforward features and making them complicated. The philosophy seems to be: “If it aint’ broke, keep fiddling with it until it is.” Everyone I talk to is experiencing the same frustrations.

November 10th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

Wow. This video is also useless. O_O Just as useless as the Alias profiles now. Just get rid of them, Yahoo. You just don’t seem to understand that you can’t do anything with them. How can you manage your Aliases when you can’t do anything with them. “Oh, why don’t I make an alias? Oh, wait! It just gets redirected to my main profile. This is Great! This makes Aliases pointless! This is the greatest idea in the whole wide web…” No one is going to say that.

November 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

I have two aliases, but with the new setup, I’ve lost the ability (or don’t know how to use it) so that only 1 alias is active when I’m logged into Yahoo IM! I don’t see the Drop down under “Messenger –> My profiles” in order to make my second alias inactive. How do I accomplish this in the new version… other than reinstalling the old version or deleting my personal, as opposed to work, alias?

November 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

The fact that this many people are having problems simply dealing with how Yahoo has redesigned profiles is pretty clear evidence that something is wrong. Taking away the ability to have a profile for an alias? That isn’t helping the user experience. There’s not really a point to being able to create an alias if it links directly back to your main profile. All that does is encourage multiple accounts which is even MORE cumbersome and obnoxious to the general user. Not to mention that blanking all the profiles to encourage everyone to upgrade? Are you serious? It’s very apparent that Yahoo has become all about the technology and shiny features – and figured out how to do the exact OPPOSITE of what its users want. And Melissa, I understand that you don’t make policy and are trying to make the best of a really crappy situation. But damn if telling people that “this is the way it’s always been” when it by the gods isn’t is just condescending and patronizing. The fact is that this is one of the single WORST “new” experiences I’ve had with a website/software item in a long time. Quite simply, if learning a product that I’ve already used for years requires this many tutorials and trainings to figure out how to properly use your software for making a bloody profile, there are plenty of other sites and services which I will be exploring – and encouraging others to do the same. You’ll be losing another user – but I’m sure Yahoo is used to that at this point.

November 11th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

I don’t have any of the ‘MY PROFILES” you talk about

November 11th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Well, I’ll add my 2 cents…

I’ve been reading the blogs here for weeks, tried reading the tutorials, tried to understand all this computer lingo and I am still lost.

For Yahoo’s information, I’ve been online with you for years, used your IM, used it for chatting and also, just as a “heads up” for when I would get new mail. Yahoo was my homepage and I had a club or two in the day…

Now, all I do is use my homepage to read news and see if I have mail.

Soon, with all the confusing changes, I may have to find another place to call “home”.

I am so very sorry you have changed (for the worse), it was not necessary.

I do not, and will not, have a myspace, facebook, or yahoo “page” for the world to see.

I came here to talk to personal friends I’ve made, but I am private and will remain so.
Thankyouverymuch.

November 11th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

Well. good for you , keep up the good work , privacy matters.

November 11th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

I watched the tutorial and was able to follow along until the my account page was pulled up. Mine looks completely different than the example shown in the tutorial. I haved tried accessing the my account page from mulitple locations and none bring me to a page thats looks like what was in the tutorial and there is no option on the my account page i have to create or edit and alias. I have gone through the online help areas and just end up going in circles. Anyone else having the same issue???

November 12th, 2008 at 8:12 am

Just repeat Dan’s comment (above) and you also have my observation. All I want to do is add a new screen name to use on Yahoo. I’ve tried everything in the book, and it just keeps going around in circles! Also, my pages look nothing like the one in the tutorial. In addition, I had a difficult time understanding the voice.

November 13th, 2008 at 12:39 am

i meant to buzz down this article. but i wasn’t given the option

November 15th, 2008 at 7:25 am

on this profile are you aloud to change the background colors or does it have to stay ugly old blue?

November 15th, 2008 at 8:14 am

I’m still trying to get this to work — with no luck at all. Why did you make making a new screen name so difficult? It used to be so easy to do!!! I don’t like your new system. It just goes round and round in circles. Someone screwed up when they designed this mess!!!

November 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

yahoo, you screwed up. i’ve had a yahoo account for like 12 years. suddenly i cannot download files from groups i’m already member of. i cannot join groups i’ve been invited to join.
one page says i need to join. when i try it says i’m already a member and i need to change my username. when i try that i get the “oops” page. even though my existing profile clearly states my username i’m told it’s taken and i need a new one but it won’t let me choose a new one. i just get “oops”. vicious circle/ bad programming.

November 16th, 2008 at 12:00 pm

It seems more difficult to join a group with the new things. Before it was a simple click and they approve you with your yahoo email. Now this new pofile thing and it says you have to create a new profile to join a group. I find it very annoying and this is why I have moved to Windows Live only. No they dont have groups but its easier to get around

November 18th, 2008 at 1:43 am

I cannot believe what a mess Yahoo! has made in making these recent changes. I have 6 aliases attached to my main ID, and I use each of them for different online activities, each with their own profile. I am NOT happy about having the ability to have a separate profile for aliases taken away. And, I am certainly NOT happy with aliases taking a searcher back to a person’s primary ID. It forces us to make aliases unsearchable and defeats the purpose of an alias altogether.

Making matters worse, another major problem cropped up last night.

Since the number of aliases is still limited to 6, I deleted one of my aliases in order to add a new one. I had no problems doing that and all 6 aliases were showing in the people search section with check boxes to make them searchable, if desired. However, when I signed on today, all of my aliases were gone from the people search section. Only a single name remained: my main ID, and people do not know me by that name. I’m known primarily by one of my aliases, which, as of today, I cannot make searchable.

I have no clue what has happened, here, and cannot find an answer to this problem. All of the aliases are still showing on the “Account Information” page, the “Manage Your Yahoo! Identities” page, the Messenger “My Profiles” list (both active and inactive), and the drop down lists for choosing which name to use when entering a room or for IM’ing someone.

Has anyone else experienced this? And, does anyone have an answer for it?

November 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

It is a mess…… What ms. Melissa says doesnt work! can not edit or do anything with profiles!!!!!

November 20th, 2008 at 1:23 pm

I want to know why I cant put my picture in my im box, but the avatar will go in there, I dont want the avatar in there and they are telling me it cannot be deleated, thats mess up, and no one seem to be able to help me with this problem.

November 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

I dont know if this is the right place to ask, but i can’t access a group of which i am already a member. It keeps asking me to make a profile. no matter what i do this page keeps coming up, ive tried every name, every combination and it sends me straight to my profile page every time. what is the problem?

November 20th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

Why can’t I delete a alial when I try to delete one I get this message oops looks like our servers are taking a break please try again later…It is started to piss me off I like it better when I was able to delete them can you tell what to do,,,

November 21st, 2008 at 9:58 am

why when I go to add an profile I cant get to it have all this mess to go through first keeps asking other questions and cant get to the add an new profil;e

November 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Mellissa,

I have been trying to resolve my problem through the help system and emails and just get canned answers that don’t address the problem that I describe. I am hoping that someone here can point me in the right direction.

I am trying to get my aliases registered in the peoplesearch system, especially those that I have used to register for groups.

On the peoplesearch page of my profile, I used the area labeled “Also allow people to find me by searching for the following alias(es) ” to associate my aliases with my profile. It just reported “Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred and we are unable to save your information at this time. Please try again later. ” I have been trying this for weeks and nothing is changing.

Since that didn’t work I tried the link labeled “Yahoo! Identity management page” on the same page. After responding with my password, it said that I have to be at least 13 years old to use that service. I have had this account for about 10 years, so does Yahoo actually think that I was 3 when I originally signed up?

I would appreciate some actual help if available.

Thanks for letting me rant.

Henry (age 46)

November 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 am

I am so lost right now. The Account Info link takes me to member services page. I am just trying to use the Groups. This is crazy. I notice someone else said this before but it seems to be ignored. What can I do now? TO top it off this video will not pull up. Where can I go?

December 1st, 2008 at 10:25 am

I was wondering what happened to my colorful profile that I posted last month…Please Yahoo listen to your RANTIN..Bloggers…Redeem Yourselfs….My profile was not a square grey Box happy face…:>{
purge

December 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 pm

hi.. how can i make an alias in a premium account (star in games)
it dont have that opcions =S

December 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm

All Yahoo wants to do is make themselves into MySpace. Nothing more. Yahoo, you’ve disappointed me. I’ve used your services for so many years, and now looks what is going on. You’re turning yourselves into a social network. I used Yahoo 360 for about two years and then it got old. I miss the old profiles and the chatrooms. Not to mention you need to do something about the porn-bot problem. It is pathetic how sloppy you guys have gotten.

December 4th, 2008 at 1:09 am

I think you have a big problems with the alias . I created 6 alias and now i can’t erased any of them Always I try says that the servers are no available. Fix that or return to the old way since was better than now . Thanks

December 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

i dont usually make accounts in yahoo but now that i have been trying to delete some of my aliases it doesnt allow me. i dont know what’s wrong with the database or something but pleaseeeee allow me to delete some of my i’ds. i’d really appreciate it. hope that you will look at this situation A.S.A.P. i’m running out of memory to keep making new accounts and passwords just to have fresh aliases. T.Y

December 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

everything has already been said, GO BACK TO THE OLD WAY

December 4th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

http://p1.pf.re4.yahoo.com/yourIDhere

this takes you to your old profile page where you can manage your alias and stuff

=)

That’s not a spam

December 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

how create alias in beta profiles
help

December 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

Im trying to find an old friend at it has been difficult to do so.

December 6th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

Why is it only we users see how pointless aliases are now, or the absurdity of not being able to know anything about someone who wants to “Connect” until we ALLOW THE CONNECT?!?!?

December 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

i give up, all i tried to do was create another alias to give a christmas like name to use in chat- too confusing for me.

December 9th, 2008 at 11:42 am

http://p1.pf.re4.yahoo.com/yourIDhere

that brings you to your old yahoo profile to add alias’s and such

December 12th, 2008 at 10:49 am

This was not helpful at all and extremely hard to hear. I had the sound all the way up on both the pc and the video.
I want to delete an alias but when I edit alias only one shows up and it’s not the one I want to delete.
Where is the help request form for groups and for profiles

December 18th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

I been having a problem with this for 4 weeks now my account was made in 1997 dont know if this has anything to do with it.

When I click delete aliase I get a message:
” If you delete this alias, you will no longer be able to use it to mask your Yahoo! ID.”
Then click ” Delete Now”
Then I get message:
“Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.”

What can I do to fix this problem?? It will not let me delete any of my Aliases that I have created.

December 19th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

i do not like the new profiles. I been on yahoofor a number of years.I created a new seasonal alias. now I cannot delete it. Iget so tyoe pd crappy response like yahoo is taking a break from updating profiles, watt goes here?

December 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 am

Still the same prblem with the profiles. I can’t erase any of them When yahoo will fix this problem. Is like they are just ignoring us

December 25th, 2008 at 3:14 am

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December 28th, 2008 at 1:53 am

How can I make my alias shorter–as in 2 letters. I want my alias to be my initials, but it said that it was too short. IS THERE ANY WAY TO MAKE IT 2 LETTERS??????????

December 28th, 2008 at 5:15 am

Although I’m a new member,but simply guide me how to just delete my default ID,eMail,all profile data if can be.

December 28th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

this really sucks can you get rid of this conection thing on my home page ?????????????????? please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

December 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Is there a way to search for yahoo members without knowing there name? The fun of Yahoo used to be finding someone in a town and chatting to them on messenger. Now I don’t have a clue! For example, if I’m going to travel on vacation to an town I often would visit with someone from that area. Now I don’t think that’s possible. Your Yahoo Chat rooms are a joke.. sorry, but they are! The only people there are bots and perverts. What’s the plan? Does Yahoo have one.

December 30th, 2008 at 8:26 am

i have aliases but i cant make anymore until i delete some that i have, i tried to delete it several times and it always says that yahoo’s servers r busy. i have tried this for several days and i still get the same message, how can i make more when i cant delete any??? help

December 31st, 2008 at 9:26 am

How do I change my default profile? For some reason, all of the sudden, today, my yahoo messenger shows my “primary alias” vs. the one I want to show. In fact, I want to change my “primary alias” but there doesnt seem to be a way to do so. Now, everyone on yahoo friends list is confused because they see my “primary alias”, one that I haven’t used in YEARS, vs the one I have always used. How do I change my “Primary alias” then delete the one I dont want anymore?

January 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 am

What is the point of an alias that points back to your main profile? Why do other parts of Yahoo help imply (help blog dated dec 10th) imply that we can edit an alias? You ruined 1000’s of people’s online profiles and if you check most people are not bothering to recreate them.

I think they did this to force people to get new yahoo accounts for each alias so they could pretend to show that they have more users when they are actually losing them as a result of this poorly planned “upgrade” No wonder microsoft won’t buy them now.

January 2nd, 2009 at 10:20 am

I am flustrated that I have my main Yahoo account that I use only for my email and my profile for family. I have another screenname (alias) and several others for Yahoo chat in chatrooms and friends. I was able to setup the one alias screenname with a nice profile and was working fine. I went to delete other aliases and I can’t delete them and in the meantime I lost the profile that I use in chatrooms as well when I go to
My Account Information from Messenger. In my profile it only shows my main ID and nothing more. So what is happening? I’ve tried to get answers from Yahoo with no success. I WANT at least to use the main “alias” screenname for Yahoo chat…is this asking to much?

January 5th, 2009 at 9:04 am

the sound on the tutorial is too low and i have my volume on high you guys need to fix that please . i am partially deaf so it is frustrating.also how do i upload a photo i had scanned but it isnt in my pictures file?

January 6th, 2009 at 8:33 am

I can’t hear the tutorial sound either. I do not have a hearing problem.

January 7th, 2009 at 2:33 am

same–can’t hear it with volume on high

January 9th, 2009 at 2:08 am

helllo

January 9th, 2009 at 10:03 pm

I do not want to see “My Yahoo Profile” appear first when I just log in Yahoo Email, I just need to see my mail box appear first. How can I change my Yahoo Email back like the time before I made Yahoo Profile? Thank you.

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January 15th, 2009 at 3:46 am

I have up until recently been able to create an alias with a dot but now when I try I keep getting this message,

Aliases may only contain letters [a-z], numbers [0-9] and underscores. Please try again.

I already have aliases with dots, so why all of a sudden I start getting the above message?

January 17th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

I’ve been trying to delete aliases for over a month now. It keeps saying “Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.”. Isn’t there anything yahoo can do to fix this? I saw this was posted before, but didn’t get replied to. All I want to do is delete some old aliases. Why can’t yahoo just fix things so I can?

January 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am

followed the tutorial step by step, there is no link to remove/add alias

January 24th, 2009 at 1:28 am

My issue is not with the alias itself, but in that the function change had not made it impossilbe to modify or delete a name associated with the alias. I cannot just delete my alias as it is tied to several Yahoo groups in which I am active, but the old associated name needs to be deleted or changed. The new functionality / policy prevents me from editing the information previously tied to an alias. Have not other users brought up the legality of this change?

January 24th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

I am trying to delete an alias I had created, but everytime I click on delete it says, “Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.” and this is happening for awhile now? Can anyone help me? Thank you

January 24th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

I even emailed customer service in regards to my problem and I got a reply back saying I should check out the help topics. Obviously that didn’t help cause after clicking link after link my answer was nowhere to be found lol.

January 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

Don’r see a way to update to my new aalais e-mail address.

February 1st, 2009 at 11:08 pm

I cant seem to change my nickname as it appears in the main chatroom window.I tried going to My Account Info and then editing member information. I have also tried changing my profile information as well as going to My Contact Details and changing the nickname there but none of those seem to solve the problem. In fact, the only place that my old nickname appears is in a chatroom.

February 4th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

I am new to Yahoo groups. I still use windows ME. Can not afford a new computer yet.
I guess I still have the old Yahoo system. it works well. I want to learn how these groups work. Can anyone explain to me why Yahoo changed my mail options to basic? I once had the header setting and now I do not have that option anymore. What is an Alias used for? I know scammers use them very well. What do honest people need them for?

February 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pm

I try to delete an alias and

“Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.”

To a lesser degree “Aliases may only contain letters [a-z], numbers [0-9] and underscores. Please try again.” even though an alias was created EXACTLY as they demand.

This has been going on for several months and it has still not been corrected. I don’t know what the problem is, as I have been able to create and delete some newer aliases, any time of day and immediately. It seems to appear that older ones that were created before Yahoo made their ‘major’ changes aren’t deletable, yet. Perhaps they’re on another server or inaccessible in some way? I don’t know what, but with other functions and deleting messages they find ‘objectionable’, Yahoo will attend to those.

With this problem, however, they just aren’t dealing with it or don’t care.

The above tutorial doesn’t address the problem, that so many seem to be having. Navigating Yahoo, using message boards, features and creating a new ID was so much easier in the past until now.

February 11th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

ditto on the alias delete issue

servers have been taking a break for weeks. FIX IT!

February 11th, 2009 at 9:56 pm

how do you get help?

no way to contact anyone for help. all you get is these stupid videos telling to you to click on links that don’t work.

delete alias function does not work and has not worked at any time day or night like forever. can’t your Y! technical people fix anything?

oh yeah! Y! technical has no idea what’s working, or not, because there is no way to communicate with yahoo!

p.s. your new Y! profiles concept sucks

February 12th, 2009 at 3:45 am

SURE I’D LOVE TOO !!! ( Forgive me for yelling but I thought I could Join the discussion directly with the YAHOO ! Profiles Customer Service Reps., ) Join in the discussion, BETA Version or NOT,…..Maybe someone can explain WHY?….I Suppose there is still no answer yet to as why the YAHOO! Profiles TEAM has bean out on BREAK NOW for Almost 2WEEKS…..?? Again I Say Beta Version or Not It sure would be nice if After the first 3 to 4 days of getting a message saying you all are out on break by a machine could stop and maybe at least have someone live tell us systemsdown, moving server, even a automated message like that would of no is better. I’m Patient and very understanding.
*** I thought the whole Idea of Creating and Using a Alias is to basically Mask your Identity.. Right?
Well I noticed that I was using one of my ALIAS names and it did not even mask my Identity…I even signed in with the ALIAS in my browser and on my Messenger .. Messenger did not hide my regular user name as nor did the browser hide my Identity or Profile from being found and viewed….PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A QUIRK AND ERROR IN THE NEW BETA VERSION. AND THAT SOON IT WILL BE FIXED AS WELL REALLY REALLY SOON…….
~~~~****** IF this is the way you guys have had to set it up to run( As in ALL ALIAS ACCT LINKED INTO MAIN PROFILE ACCT )
THEN Why???? Why even bother to use the ALIAS Function if it is going to stay running like this. I never had this Problem before and OMG when not even knowing this problem was there and I said Yes in my messenger for someone for okay to add. Now What, I ‘m in as my alias and they are adding me and not only my alias but they can also see me if I am on whenever I am anyone else ……..They saw my Regular messenger sign in …..( MY Point +++ Where is the SECuRity behind the whole Alias thing? Is it leaving with the Changes and not coming back with the NEW?????? Whenever You get a chance or a Break and have some time let me know what’s Happening Within….
Thank You in Advance.

Sincerely,

whoknowsu

February 12th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

posted the tech support response to the malfunctioning alias delete serve of “our servers are taking a break” infamy! guess what? MELISSA DELETED Y! TECH SUPPORT RESPONSE FROM MACHO… this place is seriously messed-up! getting to be time to CANCEL the Y! account!

February 13th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

Hey melissa ,
got news that just might help us people who can’t delete an alias id here
on yahoo , seems no matter what i do i can’t delete an alias and its a pain in the butt .if you can help us please do so without telling us something we’ve already tried .

February 19th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

delete alias function is broken. when are you going to get around to fixing it?

February 25th, 2009 at 10:57 am

“Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.”

That has to be the stupidest error message I’ve ever seen. Seriously. Do you have pre-teen girls writing for you now? I bet the person who wrote that has pictures of unicorns and rainbows on the cover of her notebook. And she dots her “i’s” with little hearts. Go back to watching Hannah Montana and let the grown-ups do the web programming, OK?

February 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

I want this profile image junk! photo, ame and all of that junk off my screen, HELP

February 26th, 2009 at 6:59 am

Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later.

does it always do this?

February 26th, 2009 at 7:17 am

Ok sooo what im seein is yahoo is garbage now and if you have an older email you cant really do much because you always get this message

Oops! Looks like our servers are taking a break. Please try again later

and on the newer emails you can create/delete aliases but thats useless to me

February 26th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

this is such a circular mess…. tell profiles delete alias feature is not functioning and the reply sends you to someplace telling you to delete alias which isn’t working. IMPOSSIBLE TO GET AN UPDATE ON ISSUES! All Y! does is send you in circles and FIXES NOTHING. no wonder Y! has a terrible reputation and is losing business.

March 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm

How can I delete the alias’s found on my email page? I didn’t invite none of those people,except for one, a Mitch Bramley. Frankly I’m tired of looking at seversl photos of him, the same photo. Help!!!!!!

March 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm

How do I delete the alias found on my email page? idon’t know any those people. Except Mitch Bramley. Frankly I’m tired of looking at several photos of him, the same photo. Help!!!!!!

March 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am

Ayyy ayy useless dont worry about that things question go do somethin for once and fix it so older emails can add and delete

March 5th, 2009 at 5:35 am

I need to delete an Alias ID and it keeps saying the servers are busy. HELP!!!! I need to remove it NOW so I can open a new e-mail with it. Melissa, can you help me? I sent you an e-mail about this, too.

Dawn

March 5th, 2009 at 7:41 am

figured it out. Just had to close my mail window to delete the ID.

March 8th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Dawn or anyone else,
How did you delete your ID? I need to delete an alias

March 10th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

Please tell me how to delete my new alias “Diana Alethiacassandra” and just go back to holleygreen@yahoo.com????

March 10th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

Please help, this is gonna confuse my friends and family!!!

March 14th, 2009 at 12:38 am

…….. hmmmmm why is it i still cant add a name onto my email?!!?! ooh thats right yall dont know what your doin

March 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pm

how can i default my alias name? it used to have default buttom.

April 12th, 2009 at 7:20 am

I would like to know how to delete some of my connections messages? I do not want to be connected with Brad or Annie.

April 23rd, 2009 at 5:43 am

how do I go about deleting comments, I haw to many for me and I can’t delete any of them. This is getting quiet frustrating, at this time, I need help.

May 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

i have a problem with my yahoomail i have sign in but not to my inbox i want to checked my mail but i cannot reached to my in box plz whats the problem with my mail box if any body know about is problem tell me

May 22nd, 2009 at 8:55 am

when i log into my mail home page in the area that an alias would be there is a person that is not me. i am not an 18 year old girl from garland texas named ashton fowler. how do i get rid of this?!?!?!!? is someone else using my address? there is no help to found on the help site and this is really irritating!

May 23rd, 2009 at 6:37 pm

how can i default my alias name? it used to have default buttom. help please

May 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Ok well I invited my man to my instant messager and his avitar is coming up with the face of a woman and not a man how can I change this

June 1st, 2009 at 9:01 pm

In over 3 years of Awesome Outstanding Service by Yahoo with 360. I never once had even one problem. Now as I was typing a few last things about myself in the New Yahoo Profile. Everything went BLANK on me =\ No Picture, No name, Nothing works at all now for me. My entire Profile is Gone. Now I can’t move my 200 blogs over into it or anything else. Instead this is what Yahoo tells me,

*Sorry, this profile cannot be retrieved at the moment. Please try again.*

For 3 plus days now it will not come back to me. I even have typed out a letter to Yahoo 2 times but no one is there anymore to reply =\

You had a Great thing going with 360. But as in all things. People behind there desks think newer is better.

I wish Yahoo would FIX this PROBLEM for me very very soon.
Thank You…

celestial_universal_life@yahoo.com

June 8th, 2009 at 4:53 am

i am so worried because when i log in to yahoo mail, it doesnt show my user name instead there is a strange name which is coming on the position where my name i s supposed to appear.wat do i do.
matienamo@yahoo.com

June 10th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

Gee, it’s now been 11 days and I still have no way into my New Profile. My lasst post which is a few above didn’t even get noticed. How sad of a system this is now… Thanks for everything! =\

June 17th, 2009 at 9:22 am

i will appreciate it if i can get disconnectd fron receiving both mail and picture henceforth.Thanks

June 25th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

Dear Melissa,

Again, after 3 wonderful trouble free years of service with Yahoo! 360…
I now have a second Big Problem.. And with only 14 days left I do hope that you can help me as fast as possible… I have tried sending all of my 160 blogs over to my New Profile. But it only allows 34 of 160 to make it over there =\ None of my blogs have ever been marked Adult so that can’t be the problem… I have deleted the blogs that did make it over and tried again but the same problem, Only 34 of 160 blogs made it over… Please Help me out before it’s to late…
Thank You again for your time in this matter…

Rev. Richard D.D.

June 27th, 2009 at 4:28 am

i wont sign the petition cause i think its BS… everytime you go NOW to view a person’s profile whether it be using Y! chat or some other yahoo programming webpage it brings up this

We’ve launched a new profile on Yahoo!. The user you are searching for either does not exist, or has chosen to keep their profile private.

Learn more about the profile on Yahoo!

i was used to the p1.pf.re4.yahoo.com becuase you COULD actually view the page instead of hitting a wall each and everytime they were on .

so i wont be signing this BS of a petition f that

July 16th, 2009 at 9:09 am

Please DELETE Teresa’s profile from my home page! How did she get there in the first place? Does this mean my password is compromised? Your instructions on how to delete are not clear.

August 16th, 2009 at 8:55 pm

Hello Melissa;
BTW: This form is (requiring) my name but does not say “never shown publicly” as on the E-mail field. Why is that? Might it possibly be shown somewhere? If so, where? If not, why not make it consistent and change it to read (required – never shown publicly) above the Name field. I wouldn’t want my name displayed anywhere without my express permission.

Now to my original concern. I would like to delete my photo and replace it with with my avatar. That info should easy to access. but have not found it yet. Your help would be appreciated. Thank you.

August 16th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Hello Melissa, I figured the original problem out. Now what about my original post, can I delete it? If not will you please delete it? You can respond by my email address if you like. Thanks.

August 20th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

Melissa,
You really need to have your design team go thru and edit this program. A good portion of the voice is cut into pieces.

August 31st, 2009 at 11:22 pm

whenever i try to delete an alias i get this message “yahoo oops! there’s a problem We cannot delete this alias.”

it is the Yahoo! Mail Address on the account

how do i remove this alias

September 3rd, 2009 at 11:14 am

I have an alias that shows up on my account information page, but when I click on manage your yahoo aliases the alias does not show up. How do I delete the alias? I used to work for a company who uses yahoo small business email, and am unable to get rid of the alias. Please help!

September 5th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

I want to delete a gmail account but it says I can’t until I get rid of an alias. I go to manage aliases and the alias is there but the circle to click on and delete does not show up so that I can do this. The tutorial was of no help since I am on a dial-up connection and cannot use the video formats. All I want to do is erase an alias and I can’t do it. HELP!