Jun 28, 2007 01:16
Not another Yahoo trouble?
Posted by Nguyen Minh Hieu
It has been happening since the morning of June 27. All Yahoo's users in Vietnam have had trouble signing into their favorite and still popular Yahoo Messenger to chat with their friends. What about me? I am one of them.
Status of waiting to be signed in
Since afternoon, I experienced a series of disruptions from Yahoo's IM service. I was signed out very often without knowledge. The desktop status of IM is shown above. To tell you the truth, this problem did not cause much damage in the course of my work except for some files not being transferred to the host as they were supposed to. Nor could I exchange ideas with my colleagues.
The interface of Yahoo IM's Web version
Initally, I thought the problem may have come from Yahoo's user database that the desktop application cannot get connected to. However, when I came to the Web version of the Messenger here, the login process was as easy as clicking the mouse. "Thanks to" the trouble today, I ended up trying the Web version of the application, although I discovered a few setbacks. Notable are the "naughtier" emoticons, inability to write in the Vietnamese language, no file button, and a message history that could not load from the PC's harddisk.
In Vietnam, there are about 16 million people (unverified) using Yahoo's IM to connect to their friends. I hope Yahoo will not some day post the announcement that it needs to close down its service for Vietnam's market as it did with its auction site for the US (the probability, I guess, is one in a million). However, if things keep being this way for a few more days, I may ask my friends and staff to switch to more the stable Skype or GTalk.
Status of waiting to be signed in
Since afternoon, I experienced a series of disruptions from Yahoo's IM service. I was signed out very often without knowledge. The desktop status of IM is shown above. To tell you the truth, this problem did not cause much damage in the course of my work except for some files not being transferred to the host as they were supposed to. Nor could I exchange ideas with my colleagues.
The interface of Yahoo IM's Web version
Initally, I thought the problem may have come from Yahoo's user database that the desktop application cannot get connected to. However, when I came to the Web version of the Messenger here, the login process was as easy as clicking the mouse. "Thanks to" the trouble today, I ended up trying the Web version of the application, although I discovered a few setbacks. Notable are the "naughtier" emoticons, inability to write in the Vietnamese language, no file button, and a message history that could not load from the PC's harddisk.
In Vietnam, there are about 16 million people (unverified) using Yahoo's IM to connect to their friends. I hope Yahoo will not some day post the announcement that it needs to close down its service for Vietnam's market as it did with its auction site for the US (the probability, I guess, is one in a million). However, if things keep being this way for a few more days, I may ask my friends and staff to switch to more the stable Skype or GTalk.
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