Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App

If you’re still using Yahoo’s ancient Messenger application—you know, the one you can’t even download from Yahoo anymore, but might still be clinging to because you have a fondness for purple user interfaces—then you might want to commence finding some alternatives. (You could also just switch up to Yahoo’s newest version of Messenger, available as a web app, a smartphone app, or as part of Yahoo Mail’s for desktop application.)

According to a fresh announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won’t be able to use it to talk with your friends.

"In December of 2015, we announced a brand fresh Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a fresh modern platform. This finish revamp brings users an exceptionally swift, beautiful and brainy way to send – and unsend – messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation inbetween the legacy product and the fresh Messenger, we encourage all of our users to finish their transition to the fresh Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August Five, 2016. We intend to proceed our focused efforts on the fresh Messenger, with a aim of delivering the best practice to our users," the announcement reads.

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While you can’t presently download the fresh iteration of Yahoo Messenger to your computer as a standalone Windows or Mac app, Yahoo claims it is working on a version. It hasn’t published a timeline for the release in its official Yahoo Messenger FAQ, but you can sign up for updates to the in-progress program.

Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you presently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they’ll be going away on August five as well. You’ll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you indeed need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends. Going forward, Yahoo Messenger will keep track of your conversations in their respective talk windows.

Yahoo also noted, in a separate part of its announcement, that it will be pulling down the Yahoo Recommends service on September 1—a little widget for providing (Yahoo-powered) links to other related content on one’s website, mixed with occasional bits of advertising.

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App, News & Opinion

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App

If you’re still using Yahoo’s ancient Messenger application—you know, the one you can’t even download from Yahoo anymore, but might still be clinging to because you have a fondness for purple user interfaces—then you might want to embark finding some alternatives. (You could also just switch up to Yahoo’s newest version of Messenger, available as a web app, a smartphone app, or as part of Yahoo Mail’s for desktop application.)

According to a fresh announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won’t be able to use it to talk with your friends.

"In December of 2015, we announced a brand fresh Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a fresh modern platform. This finish revamp brings users an amazingly prompt, beautiful and wise way to send – and unsend – messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation inbetween the legacy product and the fresh Messenger, we encourage all of our users to finish their transition to the fresh Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August Five, 2016. We intend to proceed our focused efforts on the fresh Messenger, with a objective of delivering the best practice to our users," the announcement reads.

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While you can’t presently download the fresh iteration of Yahoo Messenger to your computer as a standalone Windows or Mac app, Yahoo claims it is working on a version. It hasn’t published a timeline for the release in its official Yahoo Messenger FAQ, but you can sign up for updates to the in-progress program.

Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you presently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they’ll be going away on August five as well. You’ll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you truly need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends. Going forward, Yahoo Messenger will keep track of your conversations in their respective talk windows.

Yahoo also noted, in a separate part of its announcement, that it will be ripping off the Yahoo Recommends service on September 1—a little widget for providing (Yahoo-powered) links to other related content on one’s website, mixed with occasional bits of advertising.

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App, News & Opinion

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App

If you’re still using Yahoo’s ancient Messenger application—you know, the one you can’t even download from Yahoo anymore, but might still be clinging to because you have a fondness for purple user interfaces—then you might want to begin finding some alternatives. (You could also just switch up to Yahoo’s newest version of Messenger, available as a web app, a smartphone app, or as part of Yahoo Mail’s for desktop application.)

According to a fresh announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won’t be able to use it to talk with your friends.

"In December of 2015, we announced a brand fresh Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a fresh modern platform. This finish revamp brings users an exceptionally rapid, beautiful and wise way to send – and unsend – messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation inbetween the legacy product and the fresh Messenger, we encourage all of our users to accomplish their transition to the fresh Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August Five, 2016. We intend to proceed our focused efforts on the fresh Messenger, with a aim of delivering the best practice to our users," the announcement reads.

Related

While you can’t presently download the fresh iteration of Yahoo Messenger to your computer as a standalone Windows or Mac app, Yahoo claims it is working on a version. It hasn’t published a timeline for the release in its official Yahoo Messenger FAQ, but you can sign up for updates to the in-progress program.

Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you presently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they’ll be going away on August five as well. You’ll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you indeed need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends. Going forward, Yahoo Messenger will keep track of your conversations in their respective talk windows.

Yahoo also noted, in a separate part of its announcement, that it will be pulling down the Yahoo Recommends service on September 1—a little widget for providing (Yahoo-powered) links to other related content on one’s website, mixed with occasional bits of advertising.

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App, News & Opinion

Goodbye, Old-School Yahoo Messenger App

If you’re still using Yahoo’s ancient Messenger application—you know, the one you can’t even download from Yahoo anymore, but might still be clinging to because you have a fondness for purple user interfaces—then you might want to begin finding some alternatives. (You could also just switch up to Yahoo’s newest version of Messenger, available as a web app, a smartphone app, or as part of Yahoo Mail’s for desktop application.)

According to a fresh announcement from Yahoo, the company is officially killing off the old version of Messenger for good. You might be able to find it to download from some software archive website, but you won’t be able to use it to talk with your friends.

"In December of 2015, we announced a brand fresh Yahoo Messenger for mobile, the Web and in Yahoo Mail on the desktop, built on a fresh modern platform. This finish revamp brings users an exceptionally quick, beautiful and brainy way to send – and unsend – messages, photos and animated GIFs in 1:1 and group conversations. While today we provide basic interoperation inbetween the legacy product and the fresh Messenger, we encourage all of our users to accomplish their transition to the fresh Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August Five, 2016. We intend to proceed our focused efforts on the fresh Messenger, with a aim of delivering the best practice to our users," the announcement reads.

Related

While you can’t presently download the fresh iteration of Yahoo Messenger to your computer as a standalone Windows or Mac app, Yahoo claims it is working on a version. It hasn’t published a timeline for the release in its official Yahoo Messenger FAQ, but you can sign up for updates to the in-progress program.

Yahoo is also switching up how it archives previous conversations. Any conversation histories you presently have (from using Messenger) are archived in Yahoo Mail, but they’ll be going away on August five as well. You’ll be able to export them to your desktop or laptop if you truly need to save whatever it is you have typed to your friends. Going forward, Yahoo Messenger will keep track of your conversations in their respective talk windows.

Yahoo also noted, in a separate part of its announcement, that it will be pulling down the Yahoo Recommends service on September 1—a little widget for providing (Yahoo-powered) links to other related content on one’s website, mixed with occasional bits of advertising.

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