Jun
28
2006
Yahoo Messenger for OS X
Posted by: Kevin Ballard in Cocoa, Programming, tags: Cocoa, Programming, work, yahooEarlier today Yahoo! finally released Yahoo! Messenger for OS X 3.0 beta 1, with an incredibly positive reaction from the general public. This is the app that I’ve spent the last 8 months working on, and I’m really proud to have finally released our first public beta. Even if you don’t use the old client, you should check it out. It’s a 100% rewrite in Cocoa, with a brand new spiffy UI, Growl support, avatar support, and more.
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July 10th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Very cool, I’ve emailed feedback to the yahoo feedback system so I won’t bother with that here.
I was the lead developer on ChitChat ( http://chit.sourceforge.net ) an open source realbasic chat client for yahoo chat. Feel free to steal any interface ideas from ChitChat whenever you guys get around to implementing chat.
Keep up the great work!
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:19 am
wondering why there is no access to the yahoo chat rooms in the OS X version I used to like yahoo chat when it was java based but now that you can only access it through messenger and the OSX version is missing that feature the Mac comunity is once again being left behind why?
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:38 pm
mark: it’s because Yahoo! Messenger for Mac is still in beta. Just hold yer horses.
January 7th, 2007 at 7:47 am
And 6 months later it is still in beta. Will this ever be finished? Will it ever support Yahoo chat rooms?
January 7th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Maybe you don’t realize this, but 3.0b1 was a complete rewrite. In addition, there were only 3 developers working on it (including me). And since I’ve subsequently left the company (to go back to school), that means 2 developers.
Give them time.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Kevin… please brother… Us mac users need this. Do you happen to know what kind of time frame we are looking at? I need to know exactly how long so I know how long I need to try to put myself in suspended animation for.
-Thanks
Myke
January 11th, 2007 at 6:13 am
Well if it’s a complete rewrite then its good.
But we really would appreciate all the extra goodies the windows guys get.
Why only 2 developers?
Thanks
January 11th, 2007 at 11:52 am
myke.g82: Honestly, I don’t know. I would expect a new beta sometime relatively soon, but I don’t actually have any knowledge on the subject.
JasonJeroo: Mac Messenger isn’t a source of income for Yahoo – they’re doing this for mindshare. Since it’s not a source of income, they can’t just throw money at it.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:21 am
Apple has been shipping over one million macs per month for a few years now… and the intel technology is common… it makes financial sense… but some yahoos at yahoo have not figured this out yet… go google !!!
April 26th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
yep … i’ve had problems with yahoo chat rooms using a mac since i’ve had a mac – over 4 years. at times i’ve been able to get in, for a little while. why isn’t there an alternative? surely yahoo and msn aren’t the only one to have chat rooms on the internet? perhaps the news that apple mac shipments are growing at three times the rate of pcs might eventually interest yahoo or someone else …
April 27th, 2007 at 6:55 am
And it’s still beta..
May 7th, 2007 at 6:43 am
try AdiumX.
this Yahoo beta crap is still buggy and the send/receive option.. works like crap..plus other issues like connecting times, lags and unexpected quit errors.
to bad yahoo isn’t as promt as apple is.
if we could talk to the yahoo clients from ichat.. :)
June 27th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Kevin:
You say that Yahoo gets no income from mac users. How much income does it get off of Windows users, because as far as I know, Yahoo was a free download for both Mac and Windows users.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
i just switch to an apple os x and the yahoo messenger doesnt have any chatrooms , how come? that suxs
July 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
why is it that in the beta i uninstalled and reinstalled this software .. when i receive or send a msge it returns to the top of my msge bar .. you or i have to scroll down everytime i msge is exchanged from top to bottom .. im lost to what i am suppose to be doin here plze return my msge to my email it would be very helpful yahoo has not returned my email and its been 2 months i cant find any alternative thanx again in advance
July 21st, 2007 at 3:51 pm
I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories but its clear there’s some thing afoot- it’s taken yahoo years to upgrade the yahoo messenger for mac and will no doubt ‘catch up’ with wndows yahoo messenger in its current form in the year 2085..if then…
Bring back chitchat- that rocked so much
August 9th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Dam, still no chat room for us mac users.
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:14 pm
i cant even find the way to download the yahoo calls (PC to PC)how do i use my microphone?
December 27th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Nice. I believe Yahoo also have Messenger as a web application.