Why is the "new" Yahoo IM so unstable?

Question

I have many friends to chat with and do so often. At least when I can sign on and stay on line without getting dc'd every 5 minutes or so. I know it is not a specific problem with my system because my friends experience the same problem. I have tried re-installing messenger but that was no help. One thing I have found out that will cause you some real grief is to try the "repair" option in the control panel's "add & remove" section. I tried that once, had the "repair function" run? for a long time, +30 minutes and finally had to quit because it did not respond, "program not responding" After I stopped and rebooted I found that I had lost 32 GB of disk space, that's right GigaBytes. A little research showed that the repair function had created a temporary file that was using up the 32GB. Makes me wonder what would have happened if I had let the repait run longer. Perhaps this is all a result of Yahoo's putting Profits over Human Rights as they did by the "outing" of Chinese disidents

Duh, This ? was directed more at the people at yahoo than at your everyday user. Being a programer myself, I know what it takes to not only write code but also to properly debug it (which yahoo seems unwilling to do). This version has been around long enough for them to debug any problems they have. Even worse is the fact that you must use the crumby new version. I never have problems with ver. 6.x. This version even messes up Outllok Express for me. I would love to find an alternative to yahoo IM but I have 50+ friends who would have to convert too. It would give me great satisfaction to get rid of Yahoo altogether because I their lack of morality in China, on the kinds of web sites they allow, and the pornographic nature of their chat rooms. Yahoo has probably the worst help section I have ever seen and if you do take the time to ask a question, their answers are at the best "trite" and usually "canned" responses.

Answer 1

You'll find with many new releases of programs/software, there are always going to be bugs/errors. This is because there is often no way to physically check every line of code/executable and so these errors are only fixed once the general public have access to it and have reported errors.
These are then corrected in later versions of the software (hence you see v6.01,v6.03,v6.11,v8.4 etc) or via updates where files or portions of code are amended.

Answer 2

Yahoo messenger has always been un reliable or had its quirks to some degree for a long time now, your best bet would be to get a chat client like trillian or something of the likes ie yahelite. Google for them and you will find them.