There, I’ve said it. I had to boot into my wife’s Windows 7 machine today. While there, I thought “Hey, I should probably start Yahoo! Messenger, as long as I have to spend some time on this laptop.”
The screenshot below is exactly what the main YM window looked liked when I started it. Yahoo! has apparently been shoving layer upon layer of crap unto Messenger’s interface since I last saw it, to the point where the damn contact list isn’t even VISIBLE anymore on my resolution, without having to first close a metric crapton of useless junk:
People need to know that there are alternatives out there, that Yahoo! Messenger has become a bloated piece of stinking crap that they don’t have to put up with. Even if you are tied to the Yahoo! protocol, there are still a lot of better clients that you can use. Do yourself a favor and try one today!
I’m proud to say that my transition to Google Talk (and all its extensions) is completed
Google Talk is cool and all, but unfortunately I, along with many other people, have a lot of contacts that are a lot more resistant to change, and persuading them to switch to a different protocol altogether is pretty much impossible. I think our first goal would be to convince as many people as possible to at least change their client, and start using something like Digsby, Pidgin, etc.