Question for Yahoo users

[lynxstch]

anyone who has yahoo knows that they were down yesterday..they are working today..I am referring to Yahoo messenger primarily...my name on there is lynxstch..same as on here..but all of a sudden in my messages to other people today...where it puts your name before each message..it's listing my FULL NAME..first and last?...that I don't like..it's noones business what my full name is...confused on how or why yahoo changed it?...so far today the 2 people I have sent messages to still have their ordinary yahoo names showing..not their real names...anyone have any ideas?

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

Hmm.... It's done that to one of my family members before. Very strange. I wonder about Yahoo sometimes...

 

[lynxstch]

Hmm.... It's done that to one of my family members before. Very strange. I wonder about Yahoo sometimes...

do you have any idea how they resolved it?...where it tells me " send messages as"..it says my screen name..but it's not sending them as that..it's sending them as my real name..and I don't like it!

 

[lynxstch]

in case anyone else has the same problem and is wondering..according to them..it only shows up on your own screen..to anyone else it shows as your screen name..no explanation of why they started doing it though..and it apparently doesn't affect everyone..only some people are finding it..and some times it's one way on one day..and back to screen name the next..lol..good old Yahoo..nice to know they are on the ball...lol!

 

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

Go under options, there is a display section where you can change your display name.

 

[TheDisneyTraveler06]

do you have any idea how they resolved it?...where it tells me " send messages as"..it says my screen name..but it's not sending them as that..it's sending them as my real name..and I don't like it!

Nope, It was really weird. I could see it, too. And then sometimes, it's her screen name. Others, it's her real name. VERY strange.

 

[jsmith]

not so strange really=are you using the beta or the new release? that could be the cause-also yahoo is a muliple server enviroment and it could depend on the server you are hitting-the code may or may not have been upgraded on all the servers-if you log in more than 12 hours apart your sessions are probably not cached so you go to a different server-thus different behaviours.
and dont be to hard on "good old yahoo" they provide a service that is relatively reliable-flexible and worldwide-and not exactly cheap to support and keep updating-developers make a good salary-and i bet you dont get a bill every month-so down time can be expected