And then Yahoo did the unthinkable…told us that they would give us something new. So, even though many threw up their hands and left…many stayed on. We waited, and waited…during that time, 360 became harder to use. It was like they had decided to just let the place rot down. The things we used to be able to do acquired more and more bugs…whatever we complained about went unheard. The site blog was never updated. I believe we went almost 8 months knowing nothing…and people left. Then the word came that the joy of blogging would return as we would be moving to the promised land of the new Yahoo brainchild…January, 2008. It came and went…and those that were waiting to see…although we’d opened other pages elsewhere….always stopped in just in case they weren’t lying. Fools that we were…accepted the circumstance of unrequited love. Crap!!! So since that time, with no more updates…we played around with the site maintaining contacts since early 2008…and all of a sudden we noticed that apps were being repaired, users that had given up were returning…what jerks we are. We didn’t know when it would all just blank out, but we had fun while it lasted. I mean, why would they open 360 Vietnam while shutting us down…with company changes…had they come to there senses? Would everyone come back? Maybe…

Now we’ve been given a date…finally. Our eviction is final on July 13th. The new platform stinks on Profiles. It just a mental institution white page, no blog comment notifications, no music player, and that creepy “Twitter,MySpace,Facebook” feel that we avoided “Mashed” up into one horrible joke of a solution. Just look around at the other sites…there are groups named 360 Refugees, Evicted by Yahoo360, 360 Anonymous, the 360 Gang. It’s really pathetic although I’m a member of one of those…okay, maybe two.

Anyway…I just wanted to say…there were tons of users who would have never left had Yahoo committed to the site and made it better…heck, just made it work again. They don’t value their users in the least bit. A year to develop a file 13 for our content. It wasn’t all the other sites…that’s why we chose 360 in the first place. And from the length of this comment..you can see this user is really in need of a new place to vent. lol (sorry about this)

And they are STILL promising a “solution”. They just want to dump us all.

1. No spell check options
2. No RSS fees
3. No blogroll
4. No tag cloud
5. No index
6. Random characters that can’t be deleted
7. Editing a blog post causes all of the text to disappear
8. No abillity to center images, justify text or embed music players.

It took them 8 months to provide this kindergarten level blog service…that was already available on Yahoo! Shine. What took so long? That’s a good question, but watching Yahoo allow 360 to wither away was pretty sad.

And My Opera Community is run by Opera Software, which will be areound for a long, long time

1 Billion users and the margins they are getting on 200 Million users just multiply’s that lose by at least 5, if not a lot more give you can’t make a dime off international users.

Yes everyone in the US ignores international markets, and a site with 18M users who happen to be international is considered a failure and shutdown.

I don’t call me crazy but the whole social networking “thing” has yet to prove that it can make a profit. If they could then those 18M users would be kept.

Still it’s nutz to toss away more people than watch most TV shows because they aren’t in the US. Use your brains and figure a way to make money off of those users. IF Bartz was intelligent, Yahoo would figure that out.

Facebook has spoiled everyone in the numbers game. If you don’t have 3 digit millions then you are considered a failure. If you have most of your users internationally you are considered a failure, and you shutdown.

Seems like giving up. You can give up on a lot of things, that easy. Building something with double digit millions isn’t easy, and yet it is easy to give up on it and “move on”. All in the name of cleaning house. True talent would have figured out how to make a profit and then told investors that they had a success.

Bah. Idiots all.

Wake up and Smell the Coffee…

Its only YahooMail and Flickr that stop the site from going into complete meltdown.

Seriously you gotta go to google to find something in the Yahoo portal page!

Their systems cripple you, they are difficult to use!
Woops, sorry! may be I turned a bit negative on the Yahoo! side.

Am actually surprised about what I just wrote, I guess I kinda thought of it subconsciously!