Hardware Geeks

I have been using Yahoo!’s IM service for many years now and it seems over the last three years that their service has gone downhill.  The application always does something unexpected.  When I started to use a MAC, the one thing I noticed was that in a chat conversation, when a new message came in from the people I was speaking with, the chat log window would scroll to the BEGINNING of the conversation instead of at the end.  This makes me have to scroll down to the bottom every time a message comes in and that’s just ANNOYING!

Over the last three years I’ve been using Y! Messenger via SMS to communicate with family overseas.  This allows me to send/receive messages on my mobile phone.  The thing that irritates me about this is that the Y! Messenger client allows me to select privacy settings such that I only get messages from people who are on my contact list.  This is great because it persists whenever I log in from any computer, but I’ve noticed that it doesn’t work when I’m logged in via SMS.  I get a crapload of a lot of spam messages from bots and it’s friggen annoying! 

If you’re on the Yahoo! Messenger team and you’re reading this, what the heck?!  Why has the quality of your product gone downhill over the past few years?

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