Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
Because Yahoo email is somehow unique and creative in some way? Maybe it's changed, but when I tried it out years ago it was pretty much the same thing as Hotmail, except faster.
You know Gmail's look? That's Y!Mail's look. Y!Mail changed to it about... six months before Gmail came out. I couldn't believe how insanely similar they were. I thought there would be a lawsuit out or something. And no - Hotmail is a load of crap and I never could stand it. I can't remember Y!Mail being like that, but then, I can't remember what Y!Mail looked like seven years ago either.
MSN works fine without patching, but if you do patch it you can make it great. Tabbed chatting, custom statuses, skins, no ads, etc.. Honestly, I'm surprised with how reliable MSN is. It's like Microsoft actually somehow managed to make something that works.
Tabbed chatting is something I personally dislike so I don't know if you can do that with Y!M. Custom statuses, skins? Both default options on Y!M. No ads? Admittedly, there is one ad at the bottom of Y!M but I never notice it. It's very non-intrusive, sort of like having an ad at the bottom of a webpage that you just disregard. There's probably a patch to get rid of that too but it's not worth the bother to me.

I still don't see what people are complaining about Y!M for, though. Horrible? Unreliable? How? It's more reliable for me than MSN is, that's for sure. And yes, I know how reliable MSN is because Danielle uses it. I'm assuming you're talking about connections, because I don't know any other thing that you can say is unreliable about a messenger service.
Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
I hate it because no matter what computer I'm using, no matter where I am, no matter what account I'm using, no matter what IM client I'm using, Yahoo CONSTANTLY fails to deliver messages, and doesn't tell me so until 5 minutes later, and usually only if I check the message window myself.
Funny, that's the exact reason I dislike MSN. xDDD I've not had that happen with Y!M for donkey years. All my messages get through, although Jess and I had some trouble with her MSN and my Y!M talking to each other for a short while when they first started allowing the systems to talk to one another. No problems since then, though, so I figure they've fixed it.