Yahoo! 360 to Shut Down
- Posted May 29th, 2009 at 9:14 am by Melissa
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Over the past two years there has been a lot of discussion about the closure of Yahoo! 360° and the transition to our new profiles experience that we’ve had in the works. Today, we’re able to firmly say that on July 13, 2009 Yahoo! 360° will be closing down and you’ll be asked to move into your new profile on Yahoo!, by July 12, 2009.
While we know that many of you have faithfully used this service over the past few years, our goal has been to find a way to unify your social experience and connections across all of Yahoo! and anywhere you travel across the Web. So, while we’re sad to say that we will no longer be supporting Yahoo! 360°, we’re excited about this larger plan and hope you’ll transition over and be a part of it, too.
We also want to reiterate our commitment to preserving your blog content. We have been working to make sure we put the right mechanisms in place so that you can move your content and minimize disruption. It is with this thought in mind that we’re happy to introduce a new blogging feature that has already been integrated into your profile. You can find more information on this below.
With your new profile on Yahoo! you’ll be able to connect with other people on Yahoo!, and share your updates and activity with the people you meet on the Web.
While we know many of you are frustrated by this decision, we’d like to address some of the main questions you might have. If your question has not been addressed, please see our Help pages and list of frequently asked questions for more information. You can also leave a comment below and I’ll try my best to answer as many of your questions as possible. Though I can’t promise to answer every question, I can promise to create additional posts on common issues and trends to make sure “hot topics” are addressed.
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Why is Yahoo! 360 closing?
Though 360 gained a strong core of loyal users (you) who enjoyed the service, Yahoo! has been reprioritizing some products to help us deliver the best possible experiences to consumers. The decision to close Yahoo! 360 and transition users to profiles is part of this larger strategy, but we had been waiting until we had an alternative solution that we could offer to our community of Yahoo! 360 users until we officially shut down 360.
It’s been almost two years since you first announced 360 was closing—why shut it down now?
Before we could retire 360, we had to find a sustainable and adequate solution for your personal information. We know how important your blog entries and profile information is to each of you, and we wanted to be able to maintain the integrity of this content. Rather than rushing the process and risking data loss, we worked on a broader solution across Yahoo! that would meet our future goal of providing you the best possible social experience while at the same time protecting your privacy and data. We’re happy to say that we now have a solution that satisfies all of these requirements.
What is going to happen to my blog?
We know that many of you decided to blog in 360 because you enjoyed sharing your content with the people you met on Yahoo!, which is why we’ve created two options for your blog and all of its content.
The first is: you can start blogging on your profile on Yahoo!—we’ve created an all new blogging tool that will let you post content and also allows you to integrate photos right from Flickr. Once you create an entry, your post is automatically pushed out in your updates stream to your connections, saving you the hassle of sending out links to your latest entries.
A second option that we’re providing you is the ability to export your blog and all of your content and to any of the supported blogging systems (don’t worry—they’re popular sites like WordPress, Blogger, and MoveableType). We’ll even generate an archive with all of your entries and photos and will send you a link to download the archive. To use this option, please follow this link: http://download.360.yahoo.com/
First you shut down Mash, now you shut down 360—why should I give profiles a shot?
We understand you might have doubts—in the past few years, you’ve seen a couple of social sites come and go, and it means a lot to us that you’ve stuck around while we’ve tweaked each experience. Know that we’re committed to having a universal profile across Yahoo!, and we’re committed to working with you to improve and evolve this profile to make sure it’s what YOU want to use. That doesn’t mean we can implement every piece of feedback you provide, but it does mean we’re listening, and we are going to do our best to make sure your interests are incorporated into future releases and versions of your profile.
What about customization and photos? On 360 I can change the look and feel and upload multiple photos—can I do this with profiles?
At this time, your new profile does not have all the features and functionality of your 360 profile. However, we are looking at incorporating new ways of expressing yourself through your profile.
In regards to uploading multiple photos, your profile on Yahoo! allows for only one primary photo for now. This is also something we’re looking at improving/expanding based on your feedback.
We know that you will have lots of questions about 360 closing and how it will affect each of you. Be sure to check out the Customer Care help pages (including the FAQ’s) to help make this transition as smooth as possible.
Thank you.
Melissa Daniels
Yahoo! Community Manager
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May 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Whatever….
May 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
In the world of social networking, Yahoo always was and will remain farther back on the list than the rest of the web ! 360 was a good start, but it just shows that Yahoo does not and will not possess the means to deliver a decent product to loyal users ! Yahoo e-mail hasn’t worked good in about a year and I see no reason to believe it will get better ! I believe Yahoo should have taken Microsoft’s offer last year ! That may have brought quality to the company in the form of resources and experienced employees !! Too bad !! Thanks for the ride while it lasted !!!!
June 6th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Amen, Amen!
June 19th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I and a lot of my friends have used Yahoo mail for many years for business and personal interests. It has worked flawlessly. I don’t know anything about the yahoo 360 since I never employed it. I now use Blogger, since it is so easy to use with teaching videos on U-tube. I don’t know anyone who has any plans of terminating their Yahoo accounts. I have been happy with Yahoo service, it is even more responsive than my Shaw account.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Amen !!
June 7th, 2009 at 11:50 am
I keep trying to accedss my profile and this is what I get:
Sorry, this profile cannot be retrieved at the moment. Please try again
Can someone help?
June 16th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I find it interesting that you chose to delete my comment than respond to it, about likening the change from 360 to Profile to the corporate disaster of introducing NEW COKE in the 80’s then reverting back to Classic coke,,just like Yahoo already did with its e-mail. On some level someone over there knows this is a bad idea..and /.or its way of implementation, because of its loss of sheer numbers of subscribers to Yahoo services, wouldn’t you agree? n how but a reply instead of a deletion. I’ve been on 350 over 5 years now and I deserve that much respect from you.
I also find it interesting that you encourage a subscriber below to ‘go for it’ if he should choose My Space or Multiply over Profile…admitting that Profiles does not have many features of 360, and most of all stating , Profiles is NOT A SOCIAL SITE you say to us all..and at best is only partially social is if you use the ‘groups’ feature…at least you are honest
maxster.
June 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Maxster,
I’ve also replied to you via email but as a heads up your comment wasn’t removed because of your discussion about Coke, but because it was offensive. As I’ve said in my email to you, you’re more than welcome to repost the same comment without the offensive remarks and I assure you, it won’t be moderated out (assuming it doesn’t also include profanity or violate other “blog rules”).
-Melissa
June 17th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Maxster,
To address your point, the Coke and Pepsi case study was (and is) a bit different than this. In Coke’s case they changed a staple product and didn’t provide another alternative– they altered their core demographic and product. This isn’t that. A better analogy would be citing Coke’s decision to discontinue Coke C2 (or any other sub-brand) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_C2), as C2 was a sub-division of a core product that received mixed reviews and didn’t get nearly as much “pick-up” as anticipated, even after a few years on the market.
The decision to shut down 360 is a firm one and though I know many of you would like it to be flexible, this shut down has been communicated for two years– a substantial amount of time for a product to be in “limbo.”
As for stating that profiles isn’t a social site, there’s a previous comment (http://www.yprofileblog.com/blog/2009/05/29/yahoo-360-to-shut-down/comment-page-1/#comment-14540) where I go further into this– “Profiles isn’t supposed to be a social network, however, if you want it to be one because all your friends are already on Yahoo!, we hope to give you the tools that allow you to make that happen. But, if you’re totally opposed to the “connections” thing and don’t want to share anything with anyone, you have that option too. When profiles was designed/engineered/developed/dreamed it was supposed to be a site that allowed you to do as much or as little with the outside world as you please.”
Profiles is more of a chameleon where you’re given the tools (and we will add more tools over time) to be social if you want to be. A handful of users don’t want to connect, but a handful do. This caters to both.
-Melissa
June 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Maxster,
..and to address your point, Melissa, the Coke and Pepsi case
was (and is) very much the same as this in the opinion of your humble narrator.. . You say in Coke’s case they changed a staple product and didn’t provide another alternative. The alternative was NEW COKE or C2 as it was later called bcause if you wanted a cola product from them, thats all you could obtain…. ,yes they altered their core demographic and reduced consumers of the product at near record rates for the company just like your transition. The difference before Yahoo is it took two years of attrition before you finally rode off the cliff./// The change backfired and the reverted to the original product to stop the bleeding. As an aside I notice the beta E-mail was not so well recieved as originally percieved n Yahoo reverted to the option of ‘Mail Classic’. lol Seems to me a knod to Coke.product case.
So this is that n its the perfect analogy, unfortunately. 360 was a fine product already…it just needed to be presented better like the original Coke n finally de-bugged.,… and Profiles is not a real alternative to many users as you are well aware and despite their varied efforts, friends forged over years will be lost as well as untold numbers of blogs, artwork n pics. Its too much work for many and they will leaver it all for Yahoo deletion, and attempt to find a friend on some multitude of sites out there, n leaving yahoo with a very bitter taste in their mouth.
If Profiles is to have more feastures, conventional wisdom says after 2 years of ‘development’ and promises of a much improved product, those features should be put in place before Profiles introduction to immediately assuage users that were worried n dubious. Instead you fufuilled what they feared all along. You could have met consumer anticipation n worry instead of offering a bare bones skeleton of the new product. I really don’t understand why you don’t just make 360 itself an aside to Profiles .
360 was NOT sub brand …360 stood upon its own like other yahoo features such as e-mail. Again, I don’t understand why not just MAKE it a sub-brand as an aside under Profiles?…then you can have what some marketing genius over there wants (my counterpart lol) n users can retain their beloved 360 pages, friends n content. In that way you would not return to 360 as you adamant say you are not, but simply augment Profiles to be more than it ever could be in one fell swoop.
Think about it n thanks for your sincere replies and debate with me. I’m am curious as to how you will respond to this one. ;o)
Sincerely- max
July 11th, 2009 at 5:42 am
“The decision to shut down 360 is a firm one and though I know many of you would like it to be flexible, this shut down has been communicated for two years– a substantial amount of time for a product to be in “limbo.”
So untrue! We were only recently told of this “shut down” ~ For two years we were promised any problems we may have been experiencing on 360 were being fixed! It seems the new and improved Yahoo ~ isn’t.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Deni,
Here’s the link to the 360 blog post that states that 360 bugs will not be fixed: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q–?cq=1&p=51234
This entry is dated October 24, 2007.
This entry: http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q–?cq=1&p=49226 announces the transition– October 16, 2007– nearly two years ago.
-Melissa
June 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
i know right?
May 29th, 2009 at 10:39 am
two years for something that’s not anywhere near as good as what you had? not impressed. and knowing that people were anxious about their blogs and comments, you couldn’t come up with the export or download tool any quicker? multiply made us an import tool after about a couple weeks, maybe a couple months, tops. where have you been?
you’ve taken a huge step back and i don’t think that most of the people that have stuck with 360 till now are going to be happy with this new unified profile. you don’t even use it for your blog, so why should they?
May 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Hi Kerry,
Just replied to you via Twitter as well, but there’s definitley an export tool: http://download.360.yahoo.com/
As for us not using it for our own blog, that’s because until this week, that feature wasn’t available. In order for us to communicate with you all, we set up this blog, which has been available since the launch of profiles in October 2008.
Since launching the new blogging tool, we are “eating our own dogfood” and using it to post entries as well. You can check it out here, on my profile: http://profiles.yahoo.com/yprofileblog
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 11:00 am
and yet you’re still here.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
what do mean what ever
July 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Kerry
Don’t be so nasty and disingenuous!
It’s a complicated system we have here (hell! I’m not gonna defend all of it) but you’re just being a grouch.
Lighten UP
~Steve
May 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
What I would like to know is if the comments I have in my blogs on 360 will be transfered as well. Sinse my friends won’t – im guessing they won’t be as well
I hope I am wrong… All of them are very important for me! Please let me know, so I would be able to take the appropriate measures…
P.S. I used to like 360… not so mad about this “new profile”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Hi Des,
Yep! Your comments will be migrated over as well.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Comments are imported, but they simply say they were posted by “a yahoo user.” If we can’t see who posted the comment what good is having the comment there at all?
May 30th, 2009 at 9:00 am
I think the new site is uninspired and dull. Not going there at all. Nothing can be done to personalize your own site. Don’t see how this is an improvement. Throw the new site in the trash where it belongs and keep the old one.
May 31st, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Boo on you guys! I agree with so many others…You had character and now you are BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRING!
Why not keep the old and and add the Tweeter-type feature? So, Okay I said…transfer my past blog entries. When I click “view all” it goes back a whole six entries. Where are my other 697 entries?
June 4th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I say that I would appreciate every effort within yahoo’s power to fix this problem. I don’t like the new site particulary but doing my best to stay on there and 360 both till it closes. I find the new site confusing and you have to got through too much to view. I foresee you losing a lot of users over this. I along with many, have signed a petition to fix the problem and not create another one! So many are upset who are loyal 360 users.
I sincerely and in a right attitude ask you to consider this.
May 30th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
It is too late for yahoo, poor you
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 pm
“There was an error submitting your request”
That is the error I get when visiting the link sent to my email saying my blog download is ready. Please fix.
June 7th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Melissa, I just left a comment on YOUR profile. I hope that you don’t mind. Basically, for the benefit of those who read this, I said that this whole profile thing you all have going on is crap. Yes, crap. A big smelly crap pile. Why do I say this? Let me count the ways….I don’t want to be logged onto messenger automatically when I go to my email account. I don’t want to know who’s connected with whom. I don’t want connection suggestions. Oh…and the guestbook. Why do I want to see my own comments on there? I’m my own guest? It’s confusing, it’s ugly to look at. It’s loaded with poor design features (no surprise there). Oh…and security. (just in case I lose/forget my password info) I have to give you an alternate email? my cell phone number? Did it EVER occur to you that not everyone has a cell phone? or an alternate email? or both? What if I don’t want you to have my cell phone number? and I don’t. It is a nunya kind of thing. Like, nunya business. Are you TRYING to lose people to other sites? It seems as if you do….
Have you good folks at Yahoo even READ the comments here? I’ve been looking for the positive comments, but unfortunately for you all, the negative far outweighs any positives. Does this not offer an idea that you are NOT headed in the right direction? Duh. Get a clue, yahoos. The public is speaking loud and clear. Your communication has been lacking, your hearing is non existent, as is your comprehension, yet you continue to forge ahead with this fiasco that has been long in the making. Remember Mash, Mosh, Mush?…that other thing that got sucked into the black hole that is soooo Yahooian….
That’s all I can say for now, I have to go take something for my blood pressure…Geez.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I could not have said this any better. **clapping**. I hate the closing of 360 and if they really cared about their members, they would not shut it down. but unfortunately, as we all know, they don’t care at all. This new profile thing is just awful!!
May 29th, 2009 at 10:46 am
“To err is Yahoo-ian.” (Diane Normandin)
June 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Nevermind MS offer. The fact that Yahoo chose to develop something new, push it out to all users KNOWING it does less than what they have now (360) should and does tell users VOLUMES about their business making decisions and TOTAL lack of intelligence behind them. Too many times I’ve seen businesses try to imitate somebody else instead of fixing the product they had in place. And, in the process wasting hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. 360 wasn’t perfect, what networking website is? It is definitely better than what you’re leaving us with.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:43 am
“So long, been good to know ya.” (Woody Guthrie)
May 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
I imported my blog to my profile and there are 18 months worth of blog entries that it did not import. Any way to fix this problem?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Hi Linda,
I’ve opened up a ticket for your issue and someone on our team is already looking into it. Once I know more I can email you directly (using the email address you provided here) — be on the lookout for an email from yahooprofiles [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Alrighty Melissa, thanks so much for your speedy reply and help.
May 30th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Linda isn’t the only one whose blogs did not import to profile.
May 31st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, all of mine didn’t import either. I’m trying to download them to my computer, see if that works.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Linda,
Actually Yahoo did import all the entries but in some cases (bug error?) it wouln’t show until you post a new entry in Profiles. Yes, I tried and worked it out. So go type something lol.
May 30th, 2009 at 11:38 am
That is very correct. I just posted a silly blog an there where all my others. Little bug that Yahoo should correct
May 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Sorry, I was to fast. When you go to another side and then return to your profiles, all the blogs are gone again.
Are we forced to put an entry everytime we come back to our profile in order to see all our blogs.? I hope not cause this is not workable.
What is the solution here?
May 31st, 2009 at 11:35 am
Thanks Pilsener. Tried that and it’s still the same. Still missing all the entries from the last 18 months.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Linda:
You are not alone! I am still missing all my entries as well.
May 31st, 2009 at 11:23 pm
hi pilsneer,
I tried that and it still didn’t work but I put in a customer service request we’ll see if that works.
November 14th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
n Yahoo 360 we manage friends by Category and decide which Category can read / access our blog entries. How to do that in Profiles since there’s only “Connection” available?
May 30th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Same thing here. It moved a little of 06, a couple from 07 NONE of 08 and only 1 entry from 09. The export tool isn’t working YAHOO. Please open another ticket on this so I can get my blog moved.
I wish you would just fix 360 as everyone likes the layout and feel of it. Just add some better features like being able to make a blog entry private if youwant to. Being able to add HTML into the blog comments.
It’s been around since 05 why scrap it now? Just fix the bugs. Let us be able to do things like we can in Live Journal where everything works all the time!
I personally don’t like the new platform and will probably take my blog elsewhere. As soon as my friends and I decide on a place that is where we will go because nobody likes the new platform at all.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
[...] a post on the Yahoo Profile blog today, the company announced that it would shut down Yahoo 360 on July 13, giving users about six weeks [...]
May 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I will make the change, we will see how many people come with me and those who have tried.
questions not answers,
what about the blogroll, and tags, what about the rss feeds?
May 31st, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Just last post from Melissa you said they weren’t closing 360. LOL!! Got any Yahoo apologies to offer all the unhappy people here?
I told you Yahoo was making a mistake with this.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:10 am
Tried the new ‘blog’ In front of EVERY paragraph there is a set of boxes ����. What the heck is this???
May 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Freya,
Let me check and get back to you– this shouldn’t be there.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 11:32 am
It looks like it is counting ’spaces’. One for every spacebar hit. I copied and pasted it from word so maybe that’s what it is… Weird tho lol.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Freya,
Yep– try copy/pasting the content into notepad instead of a word document. Word embeds macros into its documents which is causing these ??? marks.
-Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Maybe because Profiles don’t use fonts which support Unicode UTF-8 characters (like Arial, Tahoma, Verdana or Times). This also happened alot to those comments written not in English. Yahoo should set the system to use those fonts as default.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:09 am
I’ll miss my font but maybe they’ll change it to work like 360 did and I won’t be stuck with the boring fonts they have now. thanks Melissa for looking into it so fast. Much appreciated!
May 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am
BFD . . . does anyone really use yahoo 360 anyways ?
May 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I never used 360 blog. I had a domain and a webhost. First off, I wouldn’t keep a blog where there are ads. If I want ads, I’ll add my own. I don’t like them regardless. I do like the idea of Yahoo moving the 360 to the profile. It lacks features so far, but they did say in the profiles blog that they are going to be adding new features. Many of these sites are converting to a ‘Facebook’ type communication which I think is an excellent idea. WTG Yahoo!
May 30th, 2009 at 1:57 am
First of all, 360 was the best of all the sites, way better than “ad space” (or is it “my space”), I could write blogs as long as I wanted with no limit on expression, which is often (admittedly) crude and of an adult nature, however the friends I had there all, 200 of them,, loved my work. So now You force me to write for an audience that I do not want to write for…the point of my work was to mock and make fun of the average idiot, who could never handle the darker passions of our nature.
Well goodbye free speech, now there are no more places on the web that are free of commercials , that let you post your own art as a background pick, or or be the dark mirror from the underbelly of society, ranting about whatever we want, and finding like-minded souls with a click of the mouse.
I am angry, hurt, and wonder if you are going to pay my shrink bills, now that I have lost access to my main therapy, that had kept me off the shrink’s couch for several years, because I had a place to express those darker ideas. Where do I go to express them now? 360 was my last refuge, keeping me linked to others of my ilk.
At least you have the evil satisfaction that you have cut my last remaining thread of reason, and I will soon have a psychotic break, for I cannot live in a world that limits what I think only to my head…I need to get that nastiness out, and I require feed back so we know that there are others that have these “dangerous thoughts”, and we are not alone….That is what keeps us from taking an axe to work on Monday.We have had it. All of me We are not going to take this laying down (unless you pay for our shrink, and he is the S.O.B. that suggested we try 360 in the first place!)..Someone better bring me my pills, it is going to be a long month tonight.
May 30th, 2009 at 11:22 am
“Well goodbye free speech, now there are no more places on the web that are free of commercials , that let you post your own art as a background pick, or or be the dark mirror from the underbelly of society, ranting about whatever we want, and finding like-minded souls with a click of the mouse.”
Sure there are. Blogger comes to mind. Ads are present only on an opt-in basis (one has to choose to install Adsense) and Google has never been as casually censorious as Yahoo. I think that you would find such a move to be an upgrade.
May 30th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
My biggest 2 gripes are, :
!) I cannot post my own art work as a background, that 2 headed snake thing that is at my 360, was also on myspace, then adspace stopped original art, there is no place left on the net that allows it.
2)The “Mature Content” button is gone. Actually this is my biggest issue. I write crude stuff, and I do not want children reading it, nor the religious right having the power to delete all of my work because they are not mature enough to handle it. And that little button kept me safe. Now I can no longer blog about whatever I wish….the same restrictions that are on all the other sites are now here…goodbye freedom of speech, they cut off my head so their moral ethic can sleep better at night thinking that if I cannot see my darkness, then it must not exist, and they can feel safe. Screw them(I only say that because you cannot say f**k here)
May 30th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
“I cannot post my own art work as a background”
On Blogger? Sure you can. Here’s how: While logged in, click on “customize”. On the next screen, click on “edit html”. You’ll be able to edit the template for your blog to your own liking. Just replace the url for the background graphic that comes with the template you choose in the beginning with the url for a graphic of your choice.
If you want to avoid remotely hosting your background graphic, which is probably wise, this too is not a problem. Just make a post, embed the desired background graphic as a picture, then edit the post, clicking on “edit html”. Find the url for the picture you uploaded, then substitute in the template code as mentioned above. Your background image is being stored in your google account’s picasa account, so even after you delete the post you just made, the background graphic will still be there, and still be usable, at least until you go into Picasa and delete it there.
Not as easy as to do as in 360, but absolutely possible. I’ve done it before.
“The “Mature Content” button is gone.”
No, just moved. Again, click on customize, then on “settings”. On the page you’ll find yourself on, right above “global settings”, you’ll find the question “adult content” and a button to the right allowing to choose “yes” or “no”. This is easy to set, once you know where it is, which you do, now.
” I write crude stuff, and I do not want children reading it,”
Glad to hear that.
“they cut off my head”
Sounds painful.
“so their moral ethic can sleep better at night”
How does a concept sleep? Please take a little time and look into this, Al. I think you’ll find that this solves your problem.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Uncle Al,
Mature content isn’t allowed on profiles. I suggest you either open up a Yahoo! Group to continue sharing your content (as Groups allows mature content)– if you continue to publish mature content on profiles, you run the risk of receiving a violation. Accrue enough violations and you run the risk of having your account shut down.
-Melissa
June 7th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Yahoo Groups? You mean the same Yahoo Groups that keep spamming my yahoo email account with “Please confirm your request to join Tracys_pics_cams_movies8372″??
Yahoo Groups is a spambot tool.
May 30th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
look at multiply.com
May 31st, 2009 at 9:47 am
Yahoo’s awesome system doesn’t seem to want to let me post this. Uncle Al – you might want to read Multiply’s TOS closely before relocating there. I wouldn’t recommend it as a place for an adult blog.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:20 am
dude are you serious? many of us are dismayed by the new profile but Yahoo is not responsible for your mental care needs. I mean for feck’s sake!
June 11th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Your right about the fact that it’s all about the ads, it’s all about money!
June 19th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
I like changes otherwise where would you be today!
May 29th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Melissa,
How do I disable blog comments? If it’s not possible please add this feature ASAP before the spammers get wind of this and ruin it
I want my blog to be seen by anyone but to have the option to disable comments and /or just let my connections post.
Same with the Guestbook, I want to disable other people posting to it as it’s mostly spam but let my Guestbook posts be visible to everyone.
Actually now that we have blogs you could pretty much get rid of Guestbook and/or move the blog over to prime spot under profile info and push the Guestbook to the side?
Thanks! First major positive change I have seen from Yahoo since the profile debacle began!
May 29th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Hi Steve,
At this time you can’t disable blog comments– it’s an “all or nothing” sort of thing (right now at least). I totally understand your frustration and am opening a bug/feature request for this.
As for moving the guestbook and blog– the guestbook and blog modules are moveable– just grab them and move them to wherever you want on your profile.
(You can also move the updates section– the only modules that are static is the module for your contact card (contains your name and image) and the connections module).
-Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Steve – remember that this is Yahoo that we’re talking to – “later” has a lengthy history of meaning “never”.
However, if you’d like a blogging host that lets you moderate your comments – an essential feature as you have noted – one can already find well established competing services that allow this:
Blogger
Wordpress.com
Livejournal
Livespaces
are a few that immediately come to mind, among others. If you’d be satisfied with just being able to turn off commenting, add Multiply.com to that list – and you’ll find a lot of former 360 users there, already.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Melissa,
My problem is you don’t give a list of the blogs. I can account for every blog i have written with the comments. So far so good but I can not backtrack
ha
steve thats funny:) the profile debacle:)
May 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
MK,
What list of blogs? The ones you follow/on your blogroll? Can you be more specific? Thanks!
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 11:34 am
The blogroll and the blogs themselves.
The profile only displays in the right panel, the most recent blogs and in the left panel , the blogs themselves. but it doesn’t have the last feature, like on 360 where i can just leap to the last blog.
I will restate. I can not go to my last blog. I will have to backtrack one by one to get to it.I wish i could just go to the lasts.
and as for my blog roll i did save it elsewhere, but what will become of the blogroll, will that be integrated as well?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Hi MK,
Unfortunately, the answer is no. We don’t support/export your blogroll, and at this time, it’s not supported within your profile. However, you could easily go to your 360 page, check out your own blogroll and then add each of these blogs to your My Yahoo! page and follow them there.
As for the “last” post feature, you should see a list of all your posts on the right (as you mentioned) which should allow you to jump to the last post easily. (I’ll put in a feature request for a “last” link)
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
i already saved it Melissa, thanks, I already have my yahoo page set up with that. I liked sharing that blogroll though, but , fair enough.
yes please, put a last link
May 30th, 2009 at 11:43 am
“However, you could easily go to your 360 page, check out your own blogroll and then add each of these blogs to your My Yahoo! page and follow them there.”
Until Yahoo decides to shut down that, as well. One might want to look up Carol Bartz’ comments about closing down low performing services so that more labor can be reallocated to higher performing services, and then note which services she lists as being higher performing.
Take a good look. Not a single one of them centers around user generated content. That, boys and girls, is what Yahoo really thinks of you, right now.
What Bartz listed was the homepage, where one finds the search engine – which Bartz said she’d be willing to sell – and a number of features that seem to consist of little more than news copy posted from elsewhere, with no value added by Yahoo. I think that we can see the future Yahoo is moving toward, and it’s not a promising one for the users.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hi Joseph,
I understand your timidity about sharing your links on My!– while I admit that Carol hasn’t explicitly said My! is safe this is due in large part to the fact that Yahoo! has loads of properties. She couldn’t possibly list them all in an interview.
To see all that Y! offers, check out the “Everything” link– http://everything.yahoo.com/ (Yes, 360, Briefcase, and Farechaser have already been removed from this list).
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Blogs without RSS feeds should not be called Blogs. It is more like a personal space/diary/notebook with comments.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Agreed. It’s so minimal as to be useless as a blogging platform. It seems like it’s more aimed at the competing with twitter. Well good luck with that, yahoo.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I don’t get it. You list Blogger as one of our options, yet to import a blog into Blogger we need an .xml file…and the only thing that was in my zipped file was .jpg and .txt files.
What websites can I actually use these files on to recreate my blog?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Hi Alison,
You can definitley use these files on wordpress– (http://en.wordpress.com/welcome/?ref=360)
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
OK…found that…but the max file size is 15MB..the zip file is 72MB. I hope this works…but I don’t have high hopes.
I really wish I could have done this with Blogger since I started to move everything there anyway. What a shame.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 am
It might have been more helpful to have provided more information and better tools for people wishing to move their blogs elewhere – which is what happend, IIRC when yahoo photos closed down. It is a bit misleading to say “you can transfer your 360 blog to many other popular blogging sites” when you can only point to one that is supported, and that only for a subset of users with small enough blogs….
May 29th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Hi!
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I’ve just moved my blog onto the new site and everything looks ok. The only problem is that I can’t figure out how to include pictures in my blog entries. On 360 I liked the fact that I could upload pictures directly from my computer, couldn’t that feature be kept? Things look too complicated for me at the moment, I don’t know how to deal with flickr and url’s and urrrgh!
May 29th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
you include pictures by clicking the little image of a sun and mountain.
if you are on flickr, just right click the image and click copy url,
then go to your blog and paste the content after you clicked the image with the sun and mountain.
you can do it, try , give it at most ten times and you will have it
May 29th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Thank you, I’ll try that as soon as my profile become available again, it seems to have encountered some sort of error for the moment, hope it won’t last long
In the mean time I’ll go sign up on flickr, since there is no other way to do this 
May 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
if the error is 999, it is okay, i had that for an hour max and was back on
May 29th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Releeloo,
The new blogging feature on profiles allows you to embed any image you find on the net. This means that you can add images from your Flickr account if you want (just grab the share URL from your page), or, from anywhere else. All you need to do is be sure you are linking directly to the image itself.
For images on the web, you can right click on the image and then select “View Image”– this will open the image in a new browser window. Then, grab the URL for that page and you can tuck that into the blog photo tool.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Thank you for your quick reply. Here’s to a new beginning
Best,
me
May 29th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Anyway to do themes? I haven’t come across anything on this or maybe I’ve overlooked it?
May 29th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Tim L,
No themes at this time but its definitley something we’re looking at implementing.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Hi Melissa,
Can the 360 blog be migrated to Wordpress AND the Y!Profile with this migration tool? I’d like to try having my blog with both services for a while.
Also, why isn’t there an update listing for Wordpress here: http://profiles.yahoo.com/share_more.php . Is that a feature in the works?
Thanks,
kee
May 29th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Hi Kee,
Yep! It can. You’re welcome to try both, but it’s important to note that any of the new posts you draft on profiles won’t be included in your second export– so, if decide to leave and go to WordPress completely at a later date, you’ll have to manually port over your blog entries from profiles to WordPress.
As for the Share More page, yes, that’s in the works.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Thanks so much Melissa for the super quick, informative response (in more than one place)! I’ll give it a go.
June 19th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
i think it;s good that they are closing yahoo360 because nobody really used them
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
who are you and how did you get myspace
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
i got your myspace because i love you
May 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Like others have noted, if this is meant to be a 360 replacement, and it’s over 5 years “newer” than 360, why isn’t it as functionally capable?
e.g. fewer security options attached to blog comments; friend settings; less customisation (backgrounds, themes)
And, you state you are “looking into improvements” – why aren’t these available on day one? It feels like a ‘half-finished’ product … were lessons learnt from Mash?
360 had a unique feel and style to it. How are ‘profiles’ differentiating themselves from Facebook or MySpace … where is that unique feel … ?
May 29th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Mike,
Profiles isn’t supposed to be a complete replacement/substitution for 360. We wholly acknowledge that there are some things you can do on 360 that you can’t do on profiles, but there are also lots of things you can do on profiles that you couldn’t do on 360.
As for why all the features aren’t currently available, that’s because profiles is an evolving product that will continue to add and change features as necessary. Based on the feedback we received from users, the option to blog was on top of their list– which is why we implemented it first.
Profiles isn’t supposed to be Facebook or MySpace– if you still want to use those sites, go for it! Yahoo! is so much to so many people, so creating a system that caters to every one of our users is going to be incredibly hard, no matter who designs it, or what company puts it out.
Profiles isn’t supposed to be a social network, however, if you want it to be one because all your friends are already on Yahoo!, we hope to give you the tools that allow you to make that happen. But, if you’re totally opposed to the “connections” thing and don’t want to share anything with anyone, you have that option too. When profiles was designed/engineered/developed/dreamed it was supposed to be a site that allowed you to do as much or as little with the outside world as you please. Don’t want to share anything? No problem. Disable updates and make your profile private. Want to share a little with just the people you know? That’s where connections come in. Want to share everything with everyone? Make your profile public. If you want to be more social and share your “goings on” across the web, that’s where the “Share More” tab comes into play.
As we’ve said since launch, we’re actively listening (and responding!) to user feedback, and implementing blogging is just one of those ways. (We also updated the way you change your status messages today, and, added the guest pass feature, which users said they’d like to see). Profiles isn’t a static product and we plan on adding even more functionality in the coming months– we just need to hear from you all, what’s important, and prioritize it accordingly.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Okay Melissa. Thanks for the reply. I have looked at some of the ‘newer’ features and like some of it. I think the most sought after will simply be a ‘theme’ – it was a nice and simple way for people to personalise their space. I will try moving my blog now …
May 29th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
So basically, the profile system is a jack of all trades and the master of none. This WAS billed as a replacement for 360. We were promised that it was going to be BETTER than 360. Wrong on all counts. The new profile system is much like Yahoo’s direction the handling of this whole 360 issue…haphazard, without focus and thrown together.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Ya know what? I believe you may be reading too many of these comments at once without a break. It can’t be good for you sunshine-y disposition, eh?
Here’s the thing…I respect that you like everyone else at Yahoo, has a job to do, but when 360 was given only a few short breaths to breathe by the powers that be…we as users were told there would be a “replacement” for our community. As for using Facebook or MySpace…that’s not a very nice thing to say. If those sites…”did” it for us, we would have been using it all along. Especially, almost 2 years ago when our beloved 360 began to have so many bugs. I think many…no, someone in the offices, there, may still not understand what the draw to 360 was. The feel of it was just smooth. The look and style of it, even today beats many of the other sites for originality and functionability. There was such an ease and comfort in sharing one’s writing and socializing with others there…well it was just a jazzy place to be. I had a theme…front porch logic…people would come there and using blog comments or even quick comments a party would be simulated. I understand that someone as accomplished as you and the Yahoo staff may find this odd…but there were some nights they everyone connected and used the service for hours. A lot of these folks would never have met each other, but did right there at the front porch drink fests. LOL Others had the same sorts of activities going on surrounding politics, family issues, and just plain fun on weekends and evenings being able to make friends and find enjoyment from far and wide. I loved it…I didn’t need money or a babysitter. LOL
So in complaining, I hope you see…a lot of strong connections were made here that will probably be lost. We felt safer on 360 than on those other sites. It was a great place…better still than any left online. When you get a chance maybe you can look in the archives…but then again maybe not. You probably have a life.
I guess here’s where I can ask for something for the profile? Okay…how bout a music player or let me share my launchcast while I’m online. Like in messenger. And pleeeeeeez…a customized background..NO CCS or CSS or CSI…LOL. That’s all I really want.
Now take a deep breath, a capuccino.
June 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Uhmm…yeah…the grammar in my comment is terrible. See how not having my 360 is affecting me! Oh well…
June 13th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Hi Alli,
Thanks for your comment– I appreciate you taking the time to share what drew you to 360. I/we do understand that there were a lot of “strong connections” made on 360, and hope that you’re able to continue these relationships on Yahoo!. (Some users are creating Yahoo! Groups to stay close with the people they met on 360 in addition to connecting with them on profiles).
As for the music player, I’ll add it to the list.
Configurable backgrounds is definitley on the docket and being explored.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
So can I just safely ignore this crap which I have no time for?
I’ll just use somebody else’s service. Tired of being jerked around. Goodbye
May 29th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I notice something, I wrote 1 and 1 blog onlyon my profile blog before I transferred my 360, you guys did not bring notice yet, is that blog deleted?
I clicked the email and it says, nothing to see here
May 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
melissa, the side panel only gives the 10 most recent blog entries, not a listing, to the earliest blog
May 29th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
No way to delete all comments posted in guestbook?
How do the ’share’ and ‘permissions’ settings relate? If I said only connections can see ‘About Me’ in Settings, but in ‘Personal Info’ in Share I said anyone could see, then which one wins? Is it most restrictive. Isn’t it confusing to have two areas both controlling how much is seen? Wouldn’t one place lead to less confusion?
May 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hi Mike,
The permissions tab (http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/) wins– and by share, I’m guessing you mean the “Share More” tab (http://profiles.yahoo.com/share_more.php) under Updates, right?
We have the two separate areas because they control two separate sections (for the most part). Updates is for things that you do across the web. Settings/Permissions is for your profile itself.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I meant in ‘Manage my Updates’, but I think your reply sorted things out.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
So many times you use the word ‘unfortunately’ (no this isnt available ‘yet’). I just dont understand why you are bothering…..replacing a decent and simple networking site with something far less versatile (your admission – all those things which it will ‘unfortunately’ not do ‘yet’). The profile messages get lost in the ether….so many reasons to go somewhere else…..the profile is maintained (if you wonder why Im even here…..) because some friends are still there. But thats the only reason.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hi Steve,
While I understand your frustration, I use these words (”unfortunately,” and “not yet”) because the decisions are not absolute. As I’ve stated before, profiles is an evolving product– so just because these features aren’t there now, it doesn’t mean they can’t be there in the future.
If you look back at some of my past comments when people asked about blogging, I used the same language. After users asked for the feature/prioritized it, it was implemented.
That’s why I use “unfortunately” and “not yet”– because nothing is set in stone.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
360 was a good site. 360 was popular. A mass exodus from 360 occurred when we got jerked around. As soon as I know my stuff is safe, I’m gone.
It would have made more sense to just fix 360, and keep the clientele that was previously happy.
We were on 360 because we LIKED 360. If we wanted something like this, we would have gone to a site that’s like this.
Bad business sense, guys.
Sorry to sound negative, but most of us put up red flags when 360 started getting neglected, saying we’d go elsewhere. And we did.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
This is something I agree much with the most. I liked 360, and I wanted to use it more, but it was the experience of being jerked around with that turned me away as he said.
I loved the fact that it was catchy in the design sense – on the profiles part, not the headers, and all that bland spots. It made me feel like I was a part of something bigger.
And honestly, profiles isn’t a marketable ‘name’ when it regards to yahoo social network. 360 is still a marketing scheme. I don’t understand how yahoo is throwing it out too quickly. Your blog even has a catchy background that has a bunch of circles, those are epitome of 360 – as evidenced with Xbox 360.
But I do also understand the flipcoin of the yahoo 360 ‘cons’ where there are a few things that yahoo feels that it isn’t doing well – for example, connecting to old yahoo contacts or connecting with friends was a little harder…Its also a little harder to find new friends – and find ‘fame.’ Hell, I’ll go as far as saying that the pages aren’t even “Yahoo Search” friendly, when I created my profile, my profile went from the top of my yahoo search, to the back of the list. Just something I noticed.
I would also like to comment that the social networking aggregation is something that I would liked to have on 360, and its something you guys fixed in profiles.
That was smart.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:34 am
I completely agree with this comment. I was a faithful/almost daily user of 360 and refused to use Myspace and Facebook for the longest time because I had 360 and my friends and I was able to personalize my page, and express myself in an easy to use blog format.
I am disappointed, and feel that you guys are conforming when we your loyal users stayed with you BECAUSE you were different. I only keep my Yahoo address because I’ve had it so long and it would be a pain to change it everywhere, but after all this jerking around, I’m considering leaving Yahoo completely.
May 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
I’m not a user of 360(Having little reason to really blog or anything), but I do agree on the principle that this was a poor descission. To abandon a system that just needed to be repaired in favor of a system that, from my understanding, doesn’t even have as many features or options as its predicessor is a very bad move. With all due respect towards the Yahoo! staff, this descission strikes me as being extremely ill-advised and poorly thought-throught.
Honestly Melissa, you need to let your co-workers know just how much easier they’re making it to drive away more customers.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
why don’t keep yahoo 360? yahoo shouldn’t do anything with yahoo 360, or they will make yahoo blogger feel unpleasant. Yahoo still can develop other tools while keeping yahoo 360
May 29th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Yet another good point here.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
My only complaint is that this announcement did not come out at the same time, or even before, the blog showed up on my profile, which I check several times a day. I was up late last night and noticed the changes and played around with them some, but since I’m tying to field the questions in the User Profiles category of Yahoo Answers, a little time to read up on the change would have been nice. Either way, I’m doing the best I can now to familiarize myself with the blog features.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Speaking of answers; why don’t yahoo make a button to take you to the user’s answers from your “profiles” page, or “360″ page? The same question can be said for myBlogLog.
May 29th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Sorry, I’ve missplaces my question. 2nd try:
I hope I am wrong… All of them are very important for me! Please let me know, so I would be able to take the appropriate measures…
What I would like to know is if the comments I have in my blogs on 360 will be transfered as well. Sinse my friends won’t – im guessing they won’t be as well
P.S. I used to like 360…
May 29th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Hi Des,
I responded above, but I’ll respond here as well
Yes! Your comments will also be migrated over, so don’t worry about losing them.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
will they keep the names? who they came from?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Oh, and tnx for the responce!
May 29th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Cool. The 360 blog import seemed to work, although it lost who posted what comments.
As noted, the navigation around the blog pages could be better – prev/next 10 posts : to first post : to last post. Only the last 10 are easily accessible. Some paging would help.
Is there a way to remove connections? Seems as though once you are in, there’s no breaking up allowed.
And the font is quite small. Looks like it uses css for display, and on my screen the font is quite small (noticeable in the ‘updates’ section … the text of the update is truncated with ‘…’ but there is a river of white in the box about 3 inches to the right. Either a bigger font or thinner box would make more sense).
Is there any way to suppress ‘connection suggestions’? Other than deleting each one as it turns up … ?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Mike,
Here’s how you remove a connection:
1. Open your Yahoo! Contacts.
2. At the top of your list of contacts, click the first down arrow after All Contacts, and then select Connections in the pull-down menu.
All of your connections display below.
3. Find and click the name of the connection you want to remove.
4. In the contact’s details, next to Connection, click Remove.
Note: Removing a connection does not remove a person from your Yahoo! Contacts. If you want to remove the person from your Contacts, click the trash icon in the upper-right corner of the person’s detail page.
Removing a connection simply removes your special communication privileges with that person. It does not remove the person from your Yahoo! Contacts. Emails that you exchange will no longer display on your What’s New or Welcome page in Yahoo! Mail, and neither of you will receive Updates on each other’s online activity.
We recommend that you sever a connection if you ever feel threatened by or uncomfortable with the person. Just remember that the person will still be in your Yahoo! Contacts, so you might want to also delete them from your contacts list.
As for suppressing connection suggestions, no. You can’t disable this feature at this time.
I’ll pass on your suggestions about increasing font size (or at least having the option of enlarging it if you want) In the meantime, you can always use the “Zoom” feature in your browser to enlarge the page.
-Melissa
May 31st, 2009 at 11:46 pm
How about passing on a suggestion to be able to disable suggested connections. It was that POS that really annoyed me the first time it popped up in YMail. I’m just thankful that there was a way to disable connections completely in there.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Hi
I have download my blog to my new profile
but I cant see my Blog’s picture ?
the * Mark is showing instead of my picture
I do love them… most of them r part of my memories
May 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Goodbye good riddance. How am I supposed to get connected t family when they still get errors like “your profile has been deactivated by an administrator”? I was the master account on a long gone at&t dial up account and they were the subaccounts. Windows Live is more of what should be…a Yahoo-ish network with better profiles. Yeah Live Spaces is no Facebook, but I can get my email and set up a profile without the profile site shutting down. I second another user’s feeling of being jerked around here. Yahoo 360 was way better and the comments you’re reading say that….this is forgettable. Yahoo, give up. Obviously there are still more people that need to get laid off by Carol…any bone head who made this decision needs to be outside the unemployment office right now asking for their 6 months and a bowl of soup. Yahoo profiles is the future of Yahoo….ha. You’re right…they both are massive failures.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hi Lorenzo,
I just checked your account (the one you used to comment here) and it shows that your profile should be accessible and open. If you’re referring to a different account, please email me directly with that account name at yahooprofiles [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com
As for whether or not profiles will be around– you bet. As I stated in the post above, we know that there are a lot of reasons for you all to be skeptical, but I can assure you that we’re committed to enhancing and evolving the profiles product, and it will remain a part of your Yahoo! experience.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“As for whether or not profiles will be around– you bet.” Hmm, that sounds familiar. Where have I heard that before?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I dont like the new blog in profile, coz yahoo 360 is unique , is not same like other blog, now this one is like basic, so common, I hate common stuff
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Im download my blog but how i can insert in other blog , i dont understand the stuff
yahoo 360 I had a lot of memories, my first blog ever . I dont understand why they want to close some beautuful stuff, just to be popular is too stupid.
I know the world is like that
May 29th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Now, here’s another good example of what 360 was about; “unique-ness.”
May 29th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
How can we import our friends/contacts without having to invite them again? And can you tell me where to add rss feeds? I don’t see it. It’s ok, the new profile – but again like everyone else, I wish that Yahoo would have finished the product before releasing it. It feels half done. I had been on 360 for a very long time until last year and even came back just days ago to discover all of this. Sad about it but willing to give the new a go.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I don’t like how the comments were carried over to the new profile. Rather than having the username of the person who posted the comment listed by the comment, they all just say “a yahoo user”.
Also, what is going to happen to my friends list? I’ve connected with some of my friends from 360, but not all of them. How do I carry my friends list over simply without trying to find all of my friends on the new system?
I like giving my page a unique look. When will we be able to customize our background?
May 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
“A yahoo user” !!! [-( H**l, my friends have names! They have put their comments there under those names! I have places my comments under their blogs with my name – not just as “a yahoo user”. Looks like I’ll have tp find my own was of preserving all my memories from the last 4 years i have there!!!! Tnx…
May 29th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Exactly – and some of my comments are from friends who have since passed away. I can’t simply “re-add” them to a new, not so improved, half arsed replacement.
For months, YEARS members told Yahoo to stop screwing with new crap and just fix/maintain 360. Way to go Yahoo for once again not listening to your members. I’m switching to MSN/hotmail
May 30th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Iayla -
Don’t forget that you get a blog with your MSN membership. Hope you’ll check out Livespaces while you’re over there.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
People would probably go for it more if you could personalize your profile page just like you can with your My Yahoo! page. At least a few basic themes or the ability to upload a photo for the profile background. I like color. People like color.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
yeah people like color !!!
May 30th, 2009 at 8:03 am
Myspace and IMVU are likely to get my blogs from now on. Myspace just added some new themes that I like and IMVU lets you personalize your page a ton. The old/new profiles here are an eyesore and actually make my head hurt. there’s a reason I haven’t even looked at them for 3 years. I’m not seeing any changes that I like and I’m not likely to stay.
May 29th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
How do I access my yahoo profile from now on or after the change takes effect? Will I see it in yahoo mail or in my yahoo?
May 29th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Leota,
You can access it from your inbox, from http://profiles.yahoo.com, or from the drop down on the universal header. (It’s in the right side, would say your name– if you hover over it, it should give you a drop down with the first option being “profile”)
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Ive tryed to access my Yprofile page and it keeps coming up …. **Sorry, this profile cannot be retrieved at the moment. Please try again.**
May 29th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Hi Julie/Jools,
Someone from the UK is looking into your account (since you have a UK profile). I’ll keep you posted.
-Melissa
May 31st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Any update for me Melissa!!!
I still cannot access the profile page…
June 1st, 2009 at 9:33 am
I’ve responded via email.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:54 am
I started to edit my profiles and import my blog from 360 but then i have edited my relationship status and i have the same error message, i can’t enter my profile anymore. Please, help
May 31st, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I’m having the same problem on several of my pages. It only happens after I try to change my relationship status. On the profiles where I didn’t change my status, I can still access the page.
What worries me is that for the profiles that are locked, none of my saved information shows up when I try to access the profile without being logged in. It’s like it has erased all my information!
May 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
[...] Yahoo è stato il passaggio per gli utenti di passare a loro "nuovi profili", ed è ora richiedente spostare gli utenti nel loro nuovo profilo entro e non oltre il 12 luglio. Community Manager di Yahoo Melissa Daniels al 360 Blog scrive: [...]
May 29th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I would like to be able to customize my profile page a little. Where is the personality? Individuality? Something please.
-No blog rolls. Need that. If this is an all inclusive place to keep everything, we need some bookmarks.
-No Flickr photos embedded. Love that. Need that. I like to see who my friends are! Isn’t Flickr a part of the Yahoo family now?
-I like to be able to add music to my ‘blast’ / status update, need that. Need some fun here!
-RSS feeds. Need that. Again, with the all inclusive thing.
-Yahoo Groups. Need that. It is a Yahoo product!
May 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Hi Gypsy,
Since you outlined your issues so well, I’ll respond in the same way.
- Currently this isn’t offered, but you’re welcome to pull in your favorite sites on your my.yahoo.com page in the meantime.
- You can definitley embed Flickr images! All you do is click on the image link and then grab the URL of the Flickr image you want. We designed it this way to allow the blogger more flexibility in embedding their desired images (this way you can snag anything from the net). And yes, Flickr is part of the Y! family. You can even add it to your updates stream in the “My Updates” section.
- Duly noted.
- We’re also aware of the need for RSS feeds– I’ll add your vote to the list.
- Groups does integrate in with profiles! Check out the post before this (which is dedicated to the Groups/profiles integration) to see how to bring groups in to your profile. Currently Groups only supports sharing photos, but they’re definitley adding messages in the near future.
-Melissa
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:05 am
Melissa – I use(d) my blogroll for providing a shortcut into sections within by blog, and as a way of referencing related sites for the benfit of others. Neither of these uses seems like they wouod really be satisfied by hiding them away on my my.yahoo.com pages…
If it was a list of Blogs I wanted to follow, I’d already have them in google reader.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
P.s. I just created a blog entry in the new profile blog and in Firefox it gives me all these tiny boxes with FFFD for each space between sentences! In Internet Explorer it gives me little tiny blank boxes in those same spaces. What kind of languages/unicodes is this using that my poor computer can’t read? I need to install new fonts for my new profile? Gah!
May 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
No– my guess is you first composed this entry in MS Word and then tried copying/pasting that over, right? MS Word embeds macros into their text/docs that can cause these funky shapes. Try composing your entry right in the blog tool, or, if you really want to write it in word, save it as plain text, or, copy/paste the content into notepad first.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Thanx Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Wonderful … whenever I try to download, it says ‘error’. Conveniently, it’s capable of copying to my profile … which I didn’t want, BTW, seeing as how I left when 360 was stuffed up irreparably, and Mash disappeared (seriously, you expect us to trust this new one?)
Any ideas on how to save my stuff that doesn’t involved being forced into a ‘new’ profile I don’t want?
May 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Hi Carrie,
Please report this issue to Customer Care (using this form: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/general.html — select “Blogging” from the dropdown)
They can file a bug/better help.
-Melissa
oh and btw, as I said in the post, we understand you being a skeptic, but yes, profiles will be around. It may evolve over time, but the original profiles launched around 10 years ago, and still uses the same system.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Sorry, not going to hang around and wait to see. I spent three years on 360, even defended it when it started sinking, based on the official promises that it would not be closing, that it was just a rumour.
No offence, don’t mean this at you personally, I’m sure it’s not your fault personally, but I don’t trust Yahoo as far as I can throw them.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
No worries– I won’t take it personally
You’re welcome to stay or go (but of course we want you to stay!)– we want you to be in control of that so that’s why we provided you with the option of taking your blog elsewhere.
BTW, I’m having someone look into your issue– please let me know if there is any more information contained within the error message (i.e. if it says more than “error”)
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Nope, just says “there was an error processing your request”
I had two 360 blogs; one for general stories, and one for a series. Both are throwing the error.
As for the ‘like it or go elsewhere’ attitude of Yahoo … how many people have to leave before Yahoo realises that’s a mistake? 360 was unique and had a niche; now it’s just like every other site out there, but with less to offer.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
On a slightly less narky note, it’s good to see that there’s a rep here responding. That’s a step up, at least
May 29th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
… Wow, this is something I can’t stay silent on, it’s that bad. “You’re welcome to stay or go– we want you to be in control of that so that’s why we provided you with the option of taking your blog elsewhere.” To openly admit that your company doesn’t care if it’s loosing business over poor choices is NOT a good sign. While I can’t be certain of the customer-base that’s here only for the blog service that was offered through 360, can be certain that the customers who aren’t satisfied with being forced to take on an incomplete alternative will take their business elsewhere, and that in turn will hurt your company more.
As a business student, two of the many facts of the business world I’ve learned is:
1. The loss of customers is inevitable, but it’s better to try and prevent it then to just allow it.
2. Openly telling your clients that you don’t care enough to keep their business is a sure way of loosing them.
I can only assume that this somehow ties into Yahoo!’s “open and social” plan, so for Yahoo! to remove one of its most viable social networking features is nothing short of being absolutely moronic. I’m sorry, but that’s the only way to describe it…
Further more, to just say “if you don’t like it then leave” is, to me at least, a huge insult to your customers. It truly does say that your company does not care. It’s like Yahoo! is running around its customers/users while waving them the middle fingers screaming “[BEEP] YOU!” (Heh heh, comedic image.) Might be an extreme way of putting it, but the point stands.
So my bit of “constructive commentary” on this matter is this: Melissa, you need to let your co-workers know just how self-destructive this attitude of their’s is. It’s not a good path to take, and it will end badly for your company.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Hi Janus,
I think you misunderstood my comment– of course I care, and we care about keeping our users here AND happy. My comment to Carrie was in response to the fact that she didn’t and doesn’t trust Yahoo! enough and the new profiles enough, to give them a shot because she felt as though she’s been jerked around in the past.
Because of this sentiment (and this is something I can’t change– we wholly admit that for some users, this has been a less than desirable string of events) I knew that she’s not going to be won over by me “selling her” on how fantastic profiles is. That’s not to say that I wouldn’t love it if she (and everyone else) stayed and provided constructive criticism.
In my personal experience, people respond better when you don’t “sell them” on something that they’re already not interested in buying.
By no means am I, or anyone else at Yahoo!, running around saying “[BEEP] YOU!” as you put it. Of course I’d/we’d love for everyone to stay, but when you make changes to your services and shut down others, it’s natural that there’s some attrition. Rather than leaving, I hope/we hope to win over users with the fact that we are evolving, we are honest about the fact that we’re not “all the way there” and, we’re maintaining an open dialogue with our users. To me, that in itself doesn’t say “Beep you” — it says we do value you, and would love for you to stay.
My apologies to anyone who took that any differently as that was definitley not my intention.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Actually, I kinda agree with what Janus said. Yahoo is basically telling it’s members that if they don’t like the changes, then they don’t have to stay. And, frankly, that’s BAD for business. But, then again, Yahoo’s not gonna care until the company’s on the brink of going out of business because, apparently, they honestly don’t care about their customers.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:24 am
I’ll admit, my little comment with the whole running around screaming “[BEEP] YOU!” comment was a bit extreme, and I apologize for that. However, I do believe my point still stands. I’ll elaborate on that when I have more time…
May 31st, 2009 at 5:50 am
Ok, as I was saying before, I admit that my little comment with the whole running around screaming “[BEEP] YOU!” comment was a bit extreme, and I apologize for that. However, I do believe my point still stands. I’ll elaborate…
” My comment to Carrie was in response to the fact that she didn’t and doesn’t trust Yahoo! enough and the new profiles enough, to give them a shot because she felt as though she’s been jerked around in the past.
Because of this sentiment (and this is something I can’t change– we wholly admit that for some users, this has been a less than desirable string of events) I knew that she’s not going to be won over by me “selling her” on how fantastic profiles is.”
Ok, first of all, can you really blame Carrie for not trusting Yahoo!’s course of actions? In all honest, since this chain of events began, Yahoo! has repeatedly screwed up things and made a total blunder of everything. And my understanding is that Yahoo! began to neglect 360 before this mess with the profiles. And now you’re telling her she has settle for a relatively incomplete service with significantly less features than what she had before? It sounds like your company’s jerking her around to me. And I’ll admit, it would be pretty darn difficult to sell her on the new profiles… However, that hardly warrents “You’re welcome to stay or go.” No matter how you spin it, that sends out the impression that your company doesn’t care. If anything, that was a very bad choice of wording on your part. And before I go on… “we wholly admit that for some users, this has been a less than desirable string of events”… Melissa, that’s an understatement. It’s been a very undesirable string of events for MANY users, not just some. Believe me, I’m in the thick of it almost every day when I visit chat-rooms and converse with other users. The difference between now and October when this change in profiles and other services was first launched is that over time many have given up voicing their displeasure, because they believe that Yahoo! doesn’t care. So like myself, they just adapted to the change, but still hold a lot of anger and disapointment.
“By no means am I, or anyone else at Yahoo!, running around saying “[BEEP] YOU!” as you put it. Of course I’d/we’d love for everyone to stay, but when you make changes to your services and shut down others, it’s natural that there’s some attrition. Rather than leaving, I hope/we hope to win over users with the fact that we are evolving, we are honest about the fact that we’re not “all the way there” and, we’re maintaining an open dialogue with our users. To me, that in itself doesn’t say “Beep you” — it says we do value you, and would love for you to stay.”
There is some truth to what you’ve said there… As I commented at one point, the loss of customers is inevitable. That’s the business world for ya, and I’ve spent four years studying facts such as this. However, if you make poor choices that needlessly eliminate a much loved and used service, you can expect losses to be worse. And when you make changes and drop services without even seeing that your customers would even like said changes, then not only do you lose more customers, but you really do send out the signal that you don’t care. Yahoo! has done just that. They took down a service that only needed repair, slapped on a half-hearted alternative to another service that’s already frowned upon by many, then say “take it or leave it”. And the fact that your company is releasing these services when they’re not even fully completed is even worse! It’s like a car company putting out a new model of vehicle with 50% of the parts missing, then they say “It’s alright, we’ll ship you one part every month or two until it’s completed.” That sort of business-planning sends out the idea that not only they don’t care enough about their customers to give them a complete product, but they are going about the process itself very poorly and with little to no thought.
Also, not to get offensive here, but if this is Yahoo!’s idea of evolving as a company, it’s bound to go extinct much more quickly than the competitors. Honestly, if anything Yahoo! has taken a few steps BACK on the line of evolution. Your company’s grand plan is to become “more open and social”, and it puts the axe to its strongest social network feature?! That’s asinine at best…
If the grand messege Yahoo! wants to send is that they care about us and want us to stay, then they’ll stop making these deranged decissions, learn from its mistakes(More notably to date the profiles and this 360 mess), and try to get input from its users a bit more often. That’s my take on it. Take this, pull the constructive commentary from it, and try to talk some sense into your co-workers before they make another mistake that could have even more dire consequences.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:07 am
better yet, melissa… this evolution of your Yahoo profiles is going on for 2 years now. Your page only evolved to something so undesirable as what is presented to us? Come on, Melissa.. tell us that yahoo can do better than that, i beg you. And you claim to listen to what the “user” wants and do the improvements. I am sorry, but for one, Yahoo has not done that with 360 at all and if yahoo would have listened, then this new Profile should have blown us away with all its incredible features. Quite frankly, to underline the mentioned [beep factor].. it seems you have been keeping 360 alive to collect for the ads and your new profile perhaps won’t be any different.. a cheap vehicle to make money off of ads.. that’s that lucrative? really? And we, the user, who does not pay for your services can’t really complain, can we?
May 30th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
“Please report this issue to Customer Care”
Who will send you the loveliest form letter you could ever ask for, listing the information you need to send them before they continue – even if you included all of that information in your original letter – then ignore you for a while, before sending you a customer satisfaction survey.
That’s just about all that Support ever does, outside of the rare occasions on which one is warning them about something that Yahoo could be sued over (eg. a user at Flickr I know of, who was fond of reposting material from the Wall Street journal without attribution), the staff members dragging their feet even then.
But hey – give it a try.
May 31st, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I especially love it when they send the survey so long after the event you forget what it was you asked about, nor is there a reference to the issue. Recipie for great feedback there….
The last encounter I had with them was okay, but I think it depends which care team you get for which product. Some are frighteningly apallingly bad, some are on their game.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
In all fairness, the issue has now been resolved, and I do have my stuff from both blogs now.
I read Janus’ comments with interest; a lot of good points in there. For example, 360 was much-loved and much used, and a large percentage of 360 users (most of which are now on Multiply, many in a group called “Yahoo refugees”) warned that they would leave if 360 closed.
As was pointed out at the time, Yahoo was ignoring a large percentage of over-30 users with credit cards and the will to pay for certain services, in preference of the ‘hip’ crowd of 20-somethings, many of which have no independent income. Isolating a potentially profitable group in order to be ‘cool’ is a bad idea. And now that we’ve left, Yahoo is saying “we’re not going to force you to stay, but we do promise we’re evolving’, with no real evidence to back it up.
If Yahoo’s promises held any weight, we might stick around and see … but Yahoo has broken so many promises already (like the ‘360 closing is only a rumour’ promise, for example …), that not many are going to trust them to follow through.
Admittedly, the finger waggling comment was a bit over the top … but everything else is worth a good look.
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Just to comment, I apologized for the finger waggling while screaming “[BEEP] YOU!” I realized after the fact that it was a bit over the top. Still, nice to see that my points have merit if others agree. When commenting on these things, I try not to speak for all users on Yahoo!, since I know there are some who like these new systems or find them agreeable for the time being at least, but after cruising the chat-rooms and seeing many people posting their displeasure or utter confusion, I try to draw an accurate consensus from said comments.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Oh look, tried it again, got the error again (works every time I export to profiles, oddly enough)
Exporting Your Blog
There was an error submitting your request
May 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
we will have custom themes here on the new profile in the future?
May 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Did your engineers even test the code for the new blogging capability? It isn’t even ready for beta testing yet.
I’ve got a character that I can’t delete, I can’t edit a blog entry without all of the text disappearing and there is no spell check capability.
Remind me again why we should be using the new profile system when even other Yahoo products offer better capabilities?
May 29th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Well, I’ve just discovered the new blogging tool of yahoo profiles today. That’s what I want. We love the simplicity of Yahoo 360, and now I think yahoo profiles will be a good replacement for yahoo 360.
What I want to have:
- Theme feature for yahoo profile
- The ability to embed flash music to blog entry (from immem, for example)
- Stability
May 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
they allow html embedding, try it out.
just click the html edit and paste the flash code where you want it
May 30th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Yep, of course, I am not nuts, I know they enable HTML, but if you try to embed flash object (except youtube and google video) it will eliminate that code so your flash music will not be displayed. I tried with immem but it did not work out!
May 31st, 2009 at 10:50 am
interesting,
on yahoo 360 to enable youtube videos you had to do some editing to the code. That is unfortunate. I still some specific glitches too.
i would advise you to go here
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/general.html
and place the issue of not being able to embed immeem and other embeds except youtube and google video
May 29th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Why do my comments and questions keep disappearing from this page?
May 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
i dont like lossing my yahoo 360 page .pls help me that can i keep it !!! pls help me.i am wating for ur reply….i have just some days for keeping my page.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
‘Guestbook’ currently allows embedded HTML. As with ‘public’ access to write anything this can lead to a messy guestbook. As with myspace, the entries can become messy and drowned in images. Would it make more sense to limit to plain text? Or at least make it configurable?
And although it might look like 360-envy(!) I do miss the “quick comments” dropdown. No more flirting or winking
May 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
It looks boring but given time 360 came up with some cool things. How long do you think your new platform will take to get where 360 was before it crashed? Another thing how do I upload a photo in the blogging area from my computer.
I really don’t have faith in yahoo anymore and joined another blogging site, but I always seen 360 as home so I will give this new platform a try. I really can’t believe that you guys just let 360 crash like that. It was home and a lot of people first blogging site. We’ve met some good friends over there. Our blogs are important because we shared in each other lives through them. I was left to delete some blogs because I didn’t want them to end up in the wrong hands if yahoo had a mishap going through the transition.
360 will be missed and hopefully this site can give us the great experience we had with 360. I still say this platform should have been named 360 plus.
Good Luck with your new platform….
May 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
um i have a question will i be able 2 still have a 360 i dont get what u r doing i just got my 360 and i love it i hope u dont mean u r closing 360 FOR GOOD!!!??? please give me an answer thx
May 29th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Hi madison,
Unfortunately, no– 360 is going away for good, come July 13th. After this date, 360 will not exist for anyone, under any circumstances.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I moved my content to Y! Profiles. Everything is ok, except the entry’s comments. They have a lot of � word. Please check again.
Thanks for your work
May 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
[...] Yahoo has been easing the transition for users to switch to their "new profiles," and is now requesting users move into their new profile by no later than July 12. Yahoo Community Manager Melissa Daniels at the 360 Blog writes: [...]
May 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
The one question i have is updates, for some reason when i post new blogs, no new update is presented, and i am sharing the blog with my connections.
how can the new blog entries be added to the update stream
May 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
UGH!!!!!!!!!!! ok i’m DONE! i will NOT profile CRAP on yahoo anymore! thank god for MYSPACE and FACEBOOK! thats where i’m going….everytime you THINK your bettering it…your making it worse!
May 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Excuse me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I click that link : http://download.360.yahoo.com/
And it’s screwed up. I knew it wouldn’t be so smooth. Why is it I have only 4 blogs that went to the new platform and I have 77 in 360?????????? Okay I am so not happy. Peeps save your blogs to disk if you value them. And don’t edit anything on the new platform like the confirming email says you can do. It only screws it up. So who now is going to fix my blogs and get the rest of them over to the new platform?
May 29th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
they are still there.
trust me, i had doubts. but i checked mine and all are there with comments from my 360.
you will have to use the pages to go back and check , if you want to see.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
MJ,
I’ve opened up a ticket/bug for this issue. Should all of your entries show up, please email me directly at yahooprofiles [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com.
Thanks,
Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 3:38 am
I just knew it was going to be me out of all my friends to have the issue in moving my blogs over. The freaking addiction to 360. I hate loving something so much and can’t have it. I will definitely let you know when my problems is fixed and hopefully they will handle it before July rolls in. On a previous comment before my complaint I asked a question.
When composing a blog, in 360 we use to have the option of uploading pictures from our computer. I don’t see that option in my blog area. Can and how do I upload a picture directly from my computer.
And another question…
What happens with 360 after the shut down date? Are you guys going to shut down the site completely? Delete it completely? If people delete their blogs from 360 after they move them over just to make sure no one else has access to their blogs will it affect what they moved to the new platform?
May 30th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hi MJ,
No– we do not support uploading images directly from your computer. You’re welcome to link to them once they’re on the web, but we don’t allow uploads directly to your blog.
After the shutdown date, the 360 site will not be available at all (you’ll see a shutdown message). If you delete your blog on 360 after you’ve moved it over, this will not affect what is on the new platform.
- Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Thank you Melissa
I appreciate your help when I panicked over my blogs not transferring properly and looking forward to seeing them appear. Also thank you for answering my questions. I know you have a tough job dealing with everyone from across the world trying to make us as comfortable as possible. I passed this link on to friends who blogs didn’t transfer easily. Is there a link they can go directly to, to report the issue?
One more question…. I read something about the UK, Are the UK problems being handle differently. I am trying to help out a friend from the UK who blogs didn’t come over so easily.
June 5th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
They can either contact me directly at yahooprofiles [at] yahoo-inc [dot] com and/or file a bug with Customer Care– http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/profiles/general.html
Great question about the UK content. All of our Customer Care teams are localized (meaning if you’re in the US and have a problem, you’ll get a response from a US agent. If you’re in the UK, you’ll get one from a UK agent.) Based off of this, your friend might have better luck contacting the UK Customer Care team (just follow the help link in the top right corner of your profile)– that way they’ll get a regional response, and, won’t have to worry about jurisdiction issues.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’ll give this “new” profile a try. Being a Techie, it seems rather slip-shod in how Yahoo is going about the transition. A pole to users prior to switching then building the platform followed by beta testing would have been more logical, less painful to your customers, and would have rebuilt the faith in Yahoo that your customers had. As for what people want:
1. Blogging
2. Personlized Themes
3. Import pictures for there own computers versus having to get them from another area “flickr” not sure I want my pics on flickr and on here…one place is enought to keep track of.
4. Being able to have music/videos (RSS Feeds)
5. Being able to invite friends, friends of friends or block contacts
6. Seeing the name of a person that made a comment versus “yahoo contact”.
7. Realize that a “profile” is in no way shape or form the same as being able to blog and have each individual display and share their personalities to the ones they choose to.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
blogging exists,
personalized themes do not but that is on the table
they dont allow importing from the computer but with flickr or any image service you can jsut embed the image.
they allow videos,
they don’t allow friends of friends but i imagine they are working on that. in truth, they can do better by just allowing contact categories access to items.
for new blogs where my contacts have commented you see them but the old blogs would take much longer than the few minutes to transfer if yahoo had to match each comment to a specific id.
I would suggest as a fellow user, go to the suggestion board, click help in the top right corner with your issues. i do that and it is a good response.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Thanks MK, i realize blogging is there, I was just pointing out that by taking a poll of the users BEFORE going live with this new “improved” feature, that these are things the customers would like to have i.e. an example list. Something for the Yahoo developers to work on BEFORE going live, and to help them keep their customer base.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Hi cyndi,
Thanks for your comments (and your list!)– to give you some context, we did actually ask users for their suggestions and to prioritize our “to do list” and at the top of the list was the ability to blog, and, an easier way to view potential connections.
Both of these features were implemented in this release, and we’re actively working on new features for the future.
To read the post, please check out this link: http://www.yprofileblog.com/blog/2009/02/19/feedback-needed-your-profiles-priorities/
-Melissa
May 31st, 2009 at 10:53 am
I think next time, you guys ask for a list, you should ask for a list of things that tusers want at the same time. you guys probably have things you are working on, but it seems to me people and myself, wanted things all at the same time from those lists.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
“In regards to uploading multiple photos, your profile on Yahoo! allows for only one primary photo for now. This is also something we’re looking at improving/expanding based on your feedback.”
—In other words you already need to make improvements to this brand new “Profiles” thing to make it as good as 360? Sound like nothing but an incredible screw up. Good Job Yahoo, I have absolutely NO faith in anything Yahoo related now.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hi Irish Wolfhound,
Yes– part of what we believe in is that products are not static creations. Once you design them and roll them out, the innovation and features shouldn’t stop there. Based on this, profiles is an evolving product, and we’ll continue to add new features as you all continue to request them.
Rather than delay the release of the blogging tool further, we opted to release without the multiple-display images option, and would instead, look to implement a feature like this in the near future.
Just because this is what you see now, doesn’t mean this is all there is to profiles, or, ever will be.
-Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
“Once you design them and roll them out, the innovation and features shouldn’t stop there.”
Melissa, the word for today is “chutzpah”. What I’ve been totally fascinated by, as I’ve read your comments on this page, has been the way you’ve tried to spin the poor functionality of the new platform that one sees when one compares it to what it is replacing, as being a good thing. Pursuing this thought to its logical conclusion, the universal profile would have been an even greater accomplishment had Yahoo shorted out its servers this morning, because you’d be left with even more features to add at some undetermined point in the future. All of them, actually, since nothing would be working at that point.
Do you really expect us to be so stupid that we don’t get that?
May 29th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
How about all the quick comments that apprear on “My Page”? Is there anyway to export them to the new Profile??
May 29th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Hi pilsener,
Unfortunately, no– we only support the exporting of your blog and its comments. If you’d like to grab these comments, you’re welcome to do so manually, but there won’t be another tool coming that does this.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I think an important thing is to separate updates. Blog updates should not be connected with guestbook comment updates
my guestbook comments can be too vast in the update stream if I share them all. I like my stream to focus on blogs and such
May 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Interesting…when I followed your directions, the only blog entry that was imported to my profile was from 2008, none of the others have been transferred. Another thing to add to the list of “wants” or “wishes” is the ability to have more choices on who has access to the profile and blogs, not everyone that has my email address has access to my 360, I like it that way.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
[...] 360 comes full circle: Yes, it’s official — Yahoo! 360 is coming to an end. We know, we know — it took us a while to pull the plug. But rather than rush the process and risk losing your precious photos and prose, we wanted to make sure we had a solution in place — Yahoo! Profiles. You can move your content over to your profile, where your connections can keep tabs on you, or take it to go. You can export your entries to blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger, and MoveableType. More here. [...]
May 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Don’t count on Blogger as one of the places you can export. You can’t…unless you go through Word Press as long as your zip file from Yahoo is under 15MB.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Sure you can, Alison. It’s just that you’ll have to export your blog the same way many of us are exporting our Geocities sites at this very moment.
By manually cutting and pasting our copy. It’s a grand old Yahoo tradition.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Thankfully, with over 1500 blog entries, I don’t have to do that just yet. I was able to get everything over to Wordpress…with the exception of embedded video/music and pics (but that I can just re-insert if I choose too).
Maybe one day, when I have LOTS of time, I will make my way back to Blogger. LOL
May 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Why shut down yahoo 360? it is fuctioning well, and what about backgrounds. thats what I like about it, that I can change it to what I want and choose any color I want…
May 29th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
they say they have that on the table, i am willing to wait for it, are you?
May 30th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
MK …
1. I wonder if you’re a hired shill for Yahoo and not a real user. Follow the link under my name, and you’ll come to a real blog that took real time to assemble, linking to other material by me, establishing an online presence with a history. There’s a real reason to believe that I’m a real person. Coming up to your posts, so far I’m finding no link, nothing connecting to anything that tells us who this person is that we’re hearing from. Just a pair of initials.
At the very least, such a lack of identity raises questions. Would you care to answer them, and let us know who you are?
2. Why should users have to wait for what they’ve already had, have been enjoying for years, and could have right now, today, just be switching to one of a number of competing services, Blogger especially?
Why replace a better service with a worse one? This is a question that has been put to Melissa – who by an interesting concidence has the same first initial that you do, not that I’m saying anything – and hasn’t been answered.
3. Where did Yahoo get the idea that the promise of a new product to come was an acceptable substitute for the presence of an existing product in hand? There is nothing on earth easier to product than a promise, especially if one succeeds in browbeating people into never noticing when they aren’t kept.
Which is exactly what you seem to be trying to do, right now. For how long had we heard of this amazing new universal profile that was always just about to come out, and when it did, how many of us really didn’t notice that it looked like a poor substitute for the profile that Google seemed to toss together overnight? Now, as we move toward – what, the two year mark? – we see a move toward putting the blogs onto those not so amazing profiles, but with reduced functionality.
Which is to say that Yahoo took two years to move backwards and now, with “your” support, asks us to think of that as faith-building progress. Maybe Carl Icahn has a point.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
“Melissa – who by an interesting concidence has the same first initial that you do, not that I’m saying anything”
Hmmm … Melissa Katherine Daniels, Melissa Katrina Daniels, Melissa Karen Daniels … any of those sound right?
Just wondering.
May 30th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Hi Joseph Dunphy,
Nope, definitley not me, and not my middle initial. I know it might come as a shock, but MK is actually just a normal user (like you!) who likes Yahoo products and is happy to work with us on improving them.
If you go back to the post before this you’ll see that Bruiser accused MK of the same thing, and I’ll say it here as I said it there:
I will never post as anyone but myself. Any comment from me will say my name, and, will show that I’m a Yahoo! employee. I have no intention of ever masquerading as someone else, and frankly, it would be incredibly foolish of me to pretend to try. As you’ve clearly pointed out there are loads of internet loopholes and ways of tracking down whether or not people are “legit” or posing as users. I’m a firm believer in building up credibility through transparency, and I’ll be as honest and transparent with you all as I possibly can be, and, will always use my full name in posts. (In comments I often sign them as “Melissa” instead of “Melissa Daniels” because it’s quicker, and, my comments already stand out as those of an employee.
If you’re intent on comparing myself to MK, you’ll also see that there are obvious differences in tone and writing style. (Yes, I’m sure someone could fake that, but honestly, why would I bother?)
Additionally, any Yahoo! staff member who ever posts on this blog (or responds to comments) will always call themselves out as such, and, will also use the “official” branding within their comments.
-Melissa
May 30th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
“I know it might come as a shock, but MK is actually just a normal user (like you!) who likes Yahoo products and is happy to work with us on improving them.”
I know it might come as a shock, but as far as some of us are concerned, Yahoo has precisely no credibility left, and we’re most unlikely to take its or your word for much of anything. Take this next passage as an example of why that might be.
“As you’ve clearly pointed out there are loads of internet loopholes and ways of tracking down whether or not people are “legit” or posing as users.”
Actually, I pointed out no such thing, as anybody can see for himself, merely by reading my remarks above. Meaning that not only have you lied, but you’ve lied about something that can be easily checked. So what are you going to do, when the facts can’t be so easily checked?
May 31st, 2009 at 11:25 am
joseph,
take it easy man. That is my advice. I tutor children. And when you do that for a living you realize that we sometimes have little patience
May 31st, 2009 at 11:23 am
Joseph,
1.I do not work for yahoo in anyway, and melissa herself has stated that somewhere in the previous blog.
I am a real person. But, oddly enough, most of my blog time is spent debating politics, not personal stuff. I don’t tend to inquire about people online nor present my information. I like to blog about politics:)
so, i am just mk.though be certain, i do not work for yahoo. trust me. If I did yahoo would probably have lawsuits against them
2.
well, i believe in being prostructive. Yahoo like all online firms does what they want. I am on all of them and they all have done things i didn’t like and to be honest, none of them after arguing did anything.I have had issues with googles actions, multiplies actions, facebooks action, and yahoo’s and though my blog is not the oldest or the most tenured, i realize that none of them really cared what I have to say in terms of demands. So, I have come to the idea that it is best to be prostructive. Yahoo said last year they would get rid of 360. I took their word for it. Saved my blogs and things and expected no blog. But, here we are. It is not my ideal situation, but it is the one I have and I am not one for jumping all over the web every time an issue comes up. I have been that road. So, all I advocate is arguing your case with yahoo help forms, and being prostructive here.
I think a better idea for all of us, is if we tell yahoo things we don’t have in other networks that we would like.
that is a coincidence. Oddly enough, you have taught me something, i did not know melissa’s last name started with a k. I don’t mean to be rude but i don’t make it a point of researching people, i just like to read what people have to say and comment on their blogs.
I comment here as a user who is just trying to help, and have a little time to.
3.
I thought the universal profile was going to make me pee in my pants as well. I think yahoo wants to be more diligent which i guess is wise. good services tend to be hits and misses with these firms. we users just have to survive them and i have patience. I am not going to play the angry game. This is a free service for me, and maybe it isn’t for you, and in that context, if you are a payer then your arguments are of a different scale than mine. But, i have patience with this free service. and hope that my petitions get delivered as soon as they can.
May 29th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
use the slot for 360 for the new profiles blog.
but it would be great if they separate.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
There is no email, due to your constant removal of pages, everyone had their blogs on mature content which now we cannot transfer, and no backgrounds??? How is this better??? I liked the individual email of 360, the fact you could post…now none of the blogs transfer over because NO ONE CAN UNCLICK THE MATURE CONTENT THAT IS NOW LOCKED FOREVER TO THAT BLOG…and yah! a boring white background that is unchangeable…I think you downgraded against all your competition because at least they all offer individual email and backgrounds!
May 29th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Your profile is actually tied to your yahoo email account– so while others might provide a separate inbox for you, we integrate fully with your yahoo mail account; allowing you to send emails to your connections and carry on full conversations with them in a seamless manner.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I think Yahoo should fire the Y!360 team for their bad performance over the last few years until now, and at the same time, fire the Y! Profile team because they build such a yakky new platform.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Well I transferred my blog and only the first 7 blogs transferred. Nothing past the date of June 2006 was transferred. How do I get the rest to be moved?
May 29th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Hi tree,
I’ve added your account/issue to the bug and will have an engineer take a look.
Thanks for your patience– I’ll keep you posted as soon as I know more!
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
360 was great until you abandoned it and let the gremlins destroy it. From what I’ve seen of Profiles, it’s very boring and unimaginative. Yahoo!, why must you treat your loyal fans so poorly? Thank’s for the knife in the back.
May 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Yes, Phil, but the flip side of that is this:
Given that Yahoo has provided its users on 360 with nothing but shoddy service for so long, why did you stay around for so long, when better alternatives have been so easy to find?
May 31st, 2009 at 11:28 am
but joseph, i had a blogger site and i didn’t like to be honest. The interface for 360 is what i liked the most, simple and focused, no clutter. if it wasnt for the lack of a theme, rss feeds, mature content ability, and downloading images directly, the profiles blog would mirror 360 well.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Seems a half-hearted effort at change to me. I had a colorful site and now what I get is drab and boring. Updating? Why would Yahoo! produce something new that is much less than what was there? Why would Yahoo! think users would want no option on what their blog’s looked like–my new site’s appearence stinks! This was years of effort?
How about making profiles optional and keeping 360? Bet if you do more users will stay on 360.
Wordpress and Blog Design’s profiles, is a poor replacement for 360–this platform is missing many planks!
May 29th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
I’m not worried about blogs so much as simple private messages.you won’t know you recieve one unless you log into the yahoo homepage and check your mail,then log back into profiles to reply.seems like a lot of jumping around for the simplest of tasks on a Social Network.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
The option to copy to your new profile option doesn’t download all of the blog.
Trying to download it to my computer and it didn’t download the total blog.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Can someone tell me how i can get my friends from yahoo 360 to my profile page? Thanks
May 29th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
There’s this box that says “suggested friends” in yellow…use it.
May 29th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
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May 29th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
hi melissa.
im one of the few (if not the only one) who likes “profiles” and the idea behind it – which i think it’s the development of a more “universal” product, a “networking access point” built around your yahoo user name.
anyway, i feel like the yahoo platforms need to be redesigned from scratch; there are some yahoo areas where the layout of the page is exactly the same as 10 years ago (e.g. the account information).
in my opinion, everything already existing (my yahoo, answers, etc etc…) should be fully integrated in this global “profile”.
a question: in some parts of yahoo i appear as a “yahoo uk and ireland” user, in other parts as a “yahoo italy” user (i switched between the two coutries a couple of times). why?
another one: what happened to the yahoo/lycos chat (which was horrible by the way
)? i used to have a profile there, any chance to retrieve it?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Hi fra,
Thanks for your kind words.
As for the redesign across the network, we’re actually working on that– we’re in the process of rolling out a new homepage, and, will be updating the account information page in the near future. I agree– some things look like they did when they launched 10 years ago.
To answer your question– you show up in different locations because that’s where you agreed to the TOS. Before using portions of the Yahoo! site you had to agree to separate Terms & Conditions (or a Terms of Service). These are slightly different based on the country you’re in, and, we retain your original TOS jurisdiction. That’s why if you hopped around from country to country (but also started using new Y! services during this time) you see different countries/localized versions of Y! products.
The yahoo/lycos chat is definitley a UK/European portion of Yahoo, but I believe was renamed “noesis chat.” I’m not super familiar with this service, so you’d have to ask someone on the Customer Care team (just fill out a help page) in the UK about retrieving your information and accessing the site. I’d love to help but I really just don’t know a lot about it.
Sorry.
-Melissa
May 29th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
hi,the first thing i did when i heard about firmly closing Y!h 360 is turn to Y!H Profile and made some entries on it,it was simple and fun
,after that i used download.360.yahoo.com and exported all of my entries to Y!h profile,but then all entries that i made on YH profiles by it’s own blog function were lost 
,it seemed an error ?,wait to see Yh profile working greatly 
,and 
as for me theme,decoration…are really important.Hope to see it all on Yh Profile 
May 29th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
When trying to exporting my Blog to a Y! Blog and another site, I kept on getting this message [You do not have a verified email address wit