New and improved look & functionality for your profile.
- Posted September 17th, 2009 at 9:28 pm by Profiles Team
- Categories: General
Based on feedback from you throughout the last few months, we’ve made some changes to your profile that will help you more easily share who you are on the Web with your friends. Here are the highlights…
First, you’ll notice that the layout of the tabs on the top of your profile changed and we added [...]
How to: hide your age in your profile
As a result of your feedback, we’re happy to announce that beginning today, your age will default to “hidden” while in the 35-day waiting period. Once your 35-day waiting period has passed you will have the option of hiding your age within your profile. To hide your age, simply log into your profile and click [...]
Questions and answers about the age verification process
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
Editing your age in your profile
UPDATE 7/28/09: Based largely off of the community’s response to this feature, we will be releasing a “patch” for this issue. This patch, which will be available on or around August 18th, 2009, will hide your age in your profile during the 35-day verification period.
Prior to August 17th, if you wish to have your [...]
Yahoo! 360 has been shut down
Today, Yahoo! 360 officially shut down.
Thank you to all of you who used the service over the years– we appreciate your feedback, loyalty, and dedication to the site, and hope you’ll work with us to improve your profile on Yahoo!.
If you did not retrieve your profile information or content from Yahoo! 360 (with the exception [...]
Fixes and Features
Since we announced the closure of Yahoo! 360, some of you have had a few questions, and, some of you have run into a few bugs. Here’s a quick update on some of the issues.
Fixes
When I try to post blog entries on my profile I see weird characters or “?” marks throughout the post.
We’ve [...]
The latest addition to the Updates family: Answers
We’re happy to announce another addition to the Updates family: Yahoo! Answers. Now, you can easily share your Yahoo! Answers activity with your connections-keeping your contacts up to date on the topics that interest you most.
Like most Yahoo! properties, Answers allows you to control your settings from both the property level (http://answers.yahoo.com) and the profile [...]
Profiles Q&A for Answers users
For the regular readers of this blog, this post may seem a little redundant and may cover the basics, but for those of you just joining us (courtesy of the recent Answers migration), and the Answers Suggestion board topic on profiles, welcome.
This post addresses some of the most recent (and common) questions from Answers users [...]
Update: Your profile on Yahoo! Answers
Following last week’s announcement (both here and on the Answers blog), the transition to the new Yahoo! Profiles is now taking place on Answers. If you’re a regular user of Yahoo! Answers you’ll start to notice a change in your profile options.
From now on, instead of importing your image display from Yahoo! 360, Answers will [...]
Changes to your profile on Yahoo! Answers
Attention Yahoo! Answers users: in the coming weeks, you might notice a change in the way in which your profile image is displayed within Yahoo! Answers.
Currently, the image that displays for each user in Answers is brought in from your 360 profile. In the coming weeks, Answers will start using profiles to display your image [...]
