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Yahoo! : The hatred continues

This is Part II to I hate Yahoo! This time I'm getting myself annoyed by how the linux version of yahoo messenger sucks. Lets take a look at the current version on messenger which I have running on my desktop.





Pretty neat ha? To think that this comes from the same people who gave you the windows version that everyone so much loves! This has to be the most basic IM client I have ever seen. Visit the messenger homepage for linux at http://messenger.yahoo.com/unix.php and there, they will tell you that IM client now:

Includes:

  • Improved Emoticons
  • Improved Message Archive
  • Improved sound on RedHat kernels
  • Yahoo! Address Book integration
  • File transfer with Windows clients
Please! We were doing that with "Windows 3.11 for workgroups" in pre-school (well thats a bit stretched but... please). All the cool features that come with the windows version , some of us have no such priviledges.

I have to admit that its not just Yahoo! that does not take Linux as a serious desktop, yet. Most people do, but things are slowly changing as we start to see more useful software being ported to linux, but I think Yahoo is not going with the right pace.

There's a petition online which urges Yahoo! to put more features into YM. Please sign and help improve the Linux YM client.

I am manulite.



Comments

zzzz said…
Hello,
I don't know how strongly are you bound to using given IM (usually it is determined by the IM that most of the friends are using).

If you have to use this particular IM system - there are some alternative clients (which I haven't used - as I'm not using Yahoo as primary IM).

Maybe you could try using Jabber (some clients are nice - Gajim, psi) with transport to Yahoo?
9:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Gaim is the premier client for linux, and there are other clients also, I don't see the need to have an specialized client of yahoo in my linux box either.
9:54 AM
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