Well, guys. Wish me luck. 
From talking to myself (wish I could find some people to test this thing with), the features arenāt that interesting. It just feels like texting on a desktop.
The reaction GIFs that are straight up pulled from random Tumblr blogs arenāt that neat either, at least when being used in a conversation.
Heck, the emoticons are just the generic Unicode emoticons:
As per usual, you have no status indicator, no buddy list (instead, its treated like a texting contact list, which shows your recent convos instead, which I see as unnecessary and which can get pretty discorded after a while), no buzzing or anything to get your recipientās attention (including Audibles). and the most bland and uninteresting UI Iāve ever seen. Heck, Discord/Slack at least try to pep it up.
There are @mentions in the new Yahoo! Messenger, but I donāt have the right setup to properly test it out. Unfortunately, this isnāt a viable replacement for buzzing, as the @mention will be sent via notification, which can be disabled, along with the fact that it will basically take up the chatting space.
The slightly interesting thing Iāve noticed in the UI, though, is a āGet the appā button. When clicked on, it takes you to the page where you can download Yahoo! Messenger for iOS/Android. I can pretty much deduce that Yahoo!'s trying to appeal to the texting market, which isnāt my cup of tea.
Overall, I wouldnāt really use the new Yahoo! Messenger. At all. Itās not interesting enough to keep me in, and itās so simplistic that I would rather use MSN 1.0 or AIM instead.
Iām pretty sure the desktop version of Yahoo! Messenger is exactly the same as the web version. I used the iOS app and it has no interesting features, either. It doesnāt even have video chat, Iām not sure if the older versions of Yahoo Messenger had that either.
The UI reminds me of the new mobile Skype design, as well as other mobile texting apps. Do many people even still use Yahoo! Messenger? I donāt know any people who use it anymore. Even the people I know who still use Yahoo! Mail dropped it years ago.
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Yeah. Pretty much. Most apps nowadays are taking the āwebpage with JavaScript/server-side language in an IE WebControl containerā route instead of actually using what Windowsā API provides. In fact, it does cause lag and unexpected freezes, like yesterday, when Slack randomly froze on me for no coherent reason.
Actually, the legacy Yahoo! Messenger versions did have video chat, alongside voice chat. Itās even in the 5.x versions of Yahoo! Messenger:
Iām not exactly sure about that, but the new Yahoo! Messenger does have a very noticable hatebase.
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Wow, that Yahoo! forum does have a lot of hate posts towards the new Messenger on it. Someone called it a ādisgrace to the Internetā. Thereās also a petition to bring the old versions back. I donāt think Yahoo! will actually do that, though.
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I can 100% guarantee that thatās the case.
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to be honest it is a disgrace to the internet when they donāt take in suggestions or listen to their customers voices (text voices). instead they want to do something else with the service. i get it, canāt listen all the time and canāt give what their customers want all the time but they need to have some respect for messenger users by giving them something to use with messenger. Maybe voice and video chat for example.
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