Similar to Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk is also integrated into their email service Gmail. Double clicking on the contact will popup a window for you to start chatting. Your online contacts will be shown at the left hand sidebar where it either shows Top Contacts or Online Contacts. You will need to login to your Yahoo! Mail and you will be automatically logged in to messenger. The web-based Yahoo! Messenger has been integrated into the webmail. The new Messenger, however, is still available on the App Store and Google Play.The web-based ICQ messenger is now called Web-ICQ instead of ICQ2Go! It runs on Flash and just click on the huge Launch Web-ICQ button to open a new window to login to your ICQ account. Same goes for messages sent through third-party apps built on top of Yahoo's API. We intend to continue our focused efforts on the new Messenger, with a goal of delivering the best experience to our users.Īfter August 5th, anyone still using the legacy Messenger will no longer be able to log in or send messages. In a blog post, Yahoo explained the shut down: While today we provide basic interoperation between the legacy product and the new Messenger, we encourage all of our users to complete their transition to the new Yahoo Messenger as we will no longer support the legacy platform as of August 5, 2016. Apparently those two groups aren't enough to keep supporting such a dinosaur of an app. The app launched in 1998 under the incredibly dated name "Yahoo Pager," but is heading off into the software sunset after the company introduced a more modern version last year.Īs VentureBeat points out, the old Messenger was popular with users in the Asia-Pacific region, and according to Bloomberg, the old Yahoo Messenger actually still had a weirdly strong following among oil traders who used the app to bid and gossip on commodities prices. After more than 18 years of service, faithfully shuttling your messages, emojis and A/S/L requests back and forth across the internet, Yahoo has announced they will be signing off and closing its old Messenger app for good on August 5th.
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