Yahoo Messenger has been one of the first elite Instant Messaging clients with its initial version launched way back in 1998. A lot has been improved for Yahoo since then. The company has been through several ups and downs in this ultra dynamic world of technology. Regardless of the turbulences, Yahoo has released an all new and improved Yahoo Messenger Desktop App. The new app dons a changed standard logo and a few things on the feature front. App offers an all new elevated messaging experience with the introduction of chat groups. Apart from this, it brings forth the ability to send pictures and animated GIFs as well. Let’s have a brief look at the reincarnated Yahoo Messenger app.
Yahoo Messenger Desktop App Features
The newly designed from scratch, the app has several features that makes it an interesting chat platform as it always has been. Take a look at few of the mainstream features the app brings forth:
Say it with GIFs
People want to express their emotions and opinions in most creative ways possible, and GIF is an interactive way to confer your feelings. Yahoo Messenger has a rich and ever-growing GIF repository, drawn out from various Tumblr posts which span over diverse scales of emotions. You can easily search and send out the GIF you deem fit for conversation. Now, people can easily understand your mood without any need of fancy words. Presently, you can also see a whole lot of GIFs related to Summer Olympic Games at Rio.
Easily unsend or like a message
Gone are the days when you’d have to regret over a text sent by mistake to an unintended person. You can now easily unsend any of your text/GIF message, by clicking the trash icon next to each message in a conversation. Within moments, it will vanish from yours, as well as the receiver’s chat screen.
In addition to the unsending a message, you can also show your love by liking any message in a conversation. With a mixture of social tinge, this feature can be real fun in chat groups with your friends.
Desktop Notifications
Yahoo Messenger delivers desktop notifications for any conversation you are having so that you don’t miss out on anything while you are multitasking. It catches your eye with the meek toast notification if you are working on something while sparing yourself some gossip time along with your friends.
Yahoo Messenger has rolled out the new desktop app for both Windows and Mac. You can download it for your Windows PC from here. If you’re using any old version of Messenger app, make sure to update it to the latest version now as the previous version will stop working from now on.
Some of the old features seem to have been removed, but overall, the new app is quite good and stuffed with useful nifty features. If you’re a Yahoo person, you must find it pretty convenient. Let us know your thoughts on this in the comments section below.
Let us know your thoughts on this in the comments section below.
44 Comments
This is by far the worst thing Yahoo has done. The new is not improved. Read the posts on the Yahoo community site.
I hate it! Worst version ever!
Does this still exist?
Yahoo obviously wants to phase out messenger. The new messenger is the most useless program I’ve seen. A terrible upgrade.
It Stinks…”If it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.
I just upgraded. Where are my notes and contact info!! Oh yay,.. I used to have all my contacts in a list but now with this romper room font I have to scroll incessantly. The preferences have been truncated down to uselessness. Wow this thing appears horrible!
Another new and “improved”? This went from great…to good…to useless
And this is a textbook example of a paid article. Convenient?? You can’t even see who’s bloody online anymore, for Christ’s sake! This is a huge downgrade, that’s just a plain fact. Now it’s a text message system for desktop.
Guess what, I have a phone. I don’t need you.
Worst version ever! Useless!
WTF???
There is another app that is not YM, but is like YM & advertised on the help forum.
Time to ditch YM I think.
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Chat groups are still there..you just need to find you way through. Calm down already 🙂
This is a severe “Downgrade”, not an upgrade. Who do you think you are kidding? Is this article some sort of joke? Seriously, this ‘new’ version offers virtually nothing compared to previous versions of Yahoo Messenger. If I am unable to make voice calls or use a cam, it is totally useless to me.
I used Yahoo Messenger to “talk” to people overseas. Talk as in “Voice”. Their English is bad, and they can more easily express themselves in their limited English by “talking”, NOT typing. I am going over to Skype. I am actually already using Skype, which lacks a lot of features of the old Yahoo Messenger, but offers voice and cam capability.
Does whoever dreamed up this version of Yahoo Messenger think users are crazy? Calling it an “Upgrade” is pure stupidity. But, that is typical of corporate mentality.
wow! I agree with the rest of the folks on this update. It’s garbage. I will not use it at all
I hate this version…. I hope many will stop using Yahoo Messenger… People will move to some-other messengers… Bad luck for Yahoo….
….and the name of it is?
WOW! I have never felt more like I have taken a step back in time by like 20 years – until I downloaded the “New” version! This is by far the worst “Update” I have EVER run across. Lost half my friend list, can’t tell if anyone is online, no profile pics, emoticons are right out of the 80’s era, no highlighting the icon on my screen when I have a new message (if I don’t see the quick notification bar flash across, then I have no idea there’s anything new). Getting urged to invite people I don’t even know is annoying and the list goes on and on. The idiot thought this was a good idea should be fired. I will be deleting this from my computer and using an alternate program. You guys really screwed up this time. I have yet to see one good comment on this. You had a good thing here and now it totally blows big time. Way to go Yahoo!
WoW! this writer must have been high when writing this article. NEW and Improved my backed. This new messenger is stripped down and useless. After August I won’t be using any of yahoo’s services anymore. It’s to bad. I’ve been using yahoo since their start. Yahoo was my first email account.
Stop lying. this is clearly paid for by yahoo or Verizon. You are pretty much sucking the DInk of yahoo. I see you down on your knees for them.
You should be ashamed of your self.
We do not accept paid articles, but feel free to form your opinion, for it matters liitle to me. You may dislike an article, that is your prerogative, but one more comment out of place here and I will delete all your comments.
That make you feel powerful? go ahead and delete what you want. Your site sucks anyways.
Cracks me up that the writer says “some of the old features may have been removed, but there are some new “nifty” features”. Seriously? Like what, not being able to use it anymore? Yeah, that’s real Nifty.
how i will be able to see my mail with thw new version. i have many folders in which i kept some interesting e-mail. how can i see them?
I’ve tried Pigdin before and just now but it seems it’s not a “real” IM……. seems you have to have an account on an existing IM to use it such as AIM, YIM, MSN (why is that even still there!?) etc……. or am I misunderstanding here?
Its not new and improved. It sucks!
Absolutely fucking disgusting. Goodbye Yahoo.
You’re welcome to disagree but remember my friend, that it is not us who made this product. These were my opinion and you’re welcome to express yours. There is no point going all brouhaha over this. You’re welcome to stay at any older version of YM or move to some other platform. It hardly makes any difference.
Then if it’s not you who “made” it may you shouldn’t be telling us not to complain about it. If I’m welcome to express my opinion then don’t tell me to “calm down”. If we were welcome to stay at the older version vs forced to update…most of us wouldn’t have an issue. If you’re going to stick your nose where it doesn’t belong then you get what you get. And yes, it’s clear it hardly makes any difference if you keep loyal people who have been with you since the beginning….because if it did….we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Oh and so that my original message written last night would get approved…I prettied it up for your delicate incompetent viewing.
First of all…don’t tell me to “calm down already”. Like me pointing out this defunct debauchery, some how requires your management. Instead of managing my response to your shitty ass service….why don’t you FIX YOUR SERVICE!!!
Second of all…if you have to “find your way through” a GUI then guess what….IT’S NOT GUI!! Don’t even pretend to condescend me….your jacked up system was insult enough. Just say you’re sorry and you’re fixing it. Lie to us. You know like the time you said you were doing “upgrades” and just really meant..”Hey we’re too chicken to tell you that we don’t want you to use the service anymore”.
Agree the big downfall is the lack of any highlighting of the taskbar icon for pending messages – that seems pretty basic – It’s therefore unusable for me at work because I keep my volume down and otherwise need to know if there’s a msg pending.
once the old messenger has gone …. so am I
I.AM.SO.GLAD.I.KEPT.The older version installer – this new version? Sucks donkey testicles at the root …jeeez
Lol ya me too..
Until i got the msg the old version is done aug 31
We only really use the desktop version. The lack of showing a “friend” list or if a user is online is a killer for me. I believe Yahoo has said they will be adding these features. Can anyone confirm? If yes, is there a time frame?
I’m really not looking to switch but I guess we will be forced to if Yahoo does not extend the drop dead date for the old version. Does anyone have a suggestion which product to move to?
Agree, worst update i EVER see. I can´t believe someone write a good review about this crap!
Try Pidgin. It will even import your YM friends. I started using it yesterday and it’seems better than this new crap.
This is the worst “improvement” Yahoo has ever made to Messenger! Most features are gone, emojis are only black and white and look like something from the 1990s at best. I have a list of people to “invite” on the left that I do not know and no way to delete them. I do not know how anyone can call this an improvement!
I’m not impressed with this update at all. I use this at work to talk to our other office location and the old version worked perfect for us but now we no longer get notifications when we get a message. We rely on sound notifications just in case we aren’t sitting at our desk, the old version had really good annoying sounds. At least have the icon light up or flash so we have some sort of notification. Since I need a messenger right away I will be looking for one that gives notifications. If anyone knows of one that works with Windows 10 please post on here.
Really dont understand yahoo, if they want to kill yahoo messenger, simply shut it down, why offer a “new” version who have 1/10 of feature and who will anyway kill the userbase?
how someone at yahoo can think this version will survive? they will loose all the user base in weeks
“new and improved” ? = “tried and removed” 🙂
LIBERAL YAHELL SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you access the cam and mic options? I dont see a tool bar at all.