Lazy Daze Owners' Group

Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

February 07, 2014, 09:44:37 am

Yahoo Message Number: 144937

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Hi Group,

My buddy Chris Horst from Colorado is having problems posting to his Yahoo! Groups and asked me to pass this message on to the Lazy Daze group. This is his request:

"I read all messages on the web. To access a message, normally I just click on the topic (subject line) and it opens. Now when I try to reply, the message box below the message opens but it will not accept my cursor thus not allowing me to type anything in the box. Further, when I click on the new topic box, when it opens, it will allow me to type in a new topic in the subject line, but won't allow me to type in the message area. Woe is me!"

"I am signed in to Yahoo. I use an Apple MacBookPro. It is happening to me in other Yahoo Groups. Has anyone else had these problems? I have not queried Yahoo yet?"

So please help Chris...... unless you never want to hear from him again. ;-)

Steve K.

Re: Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

Reply #2 – February 07, 2014, 12:29:58 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 144944

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Thanks for posting my issue, Steve.
 I have discovered it appears to be a Safari problem. In Firefox I have no problems so I will access the LD forum in Firefox until I find out what the issue is with Safari. Andy suggested making sure JavaScript was enabled and it is (in Safari) so that doesn't seem to be the problem.

Chris

Re: Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

Reply #4 – February 07, 2014, 05:08:54 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 144952

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+1 for resigning in on yahoo.  I use Safari from a newish (2012) iMac that I keep up to date when software changes are published.
John 07 MB

Re: Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

Reply #6 – February 08, 2014, 11:14:09 am

Yahoo Message Number: 144958

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Chris
 The new Yahoo has so many problems and they seem to be adding new ones everyday.
Can't tell you how many of my postings have disappeared or have gone blank in the process of writing them. Guess I should write them in a word processing program and then paste them to the site but years of working directly off the website is a hard habit to overcome...and that's on my PC.
The iPads have even more problems. Many times, half way through writing a response, the screen stops responsing, not even copying is allowed so another message goes down down the drain.
To say that this is very frustrating is an understatement and is the main reason why spend more time in other forums where the software isn't a hindrance.
How Yahoo managed to so screw up a well established technology is amazing. And they have also applied their magic to Flickr too, making it more difficult to use. What a company!

Larry

Re: Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

Reply #8 – February 08, 2014, 05:52:15 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 144965

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We have been down this road many times before.  I will just reiterate what my experience has been.  I belong to about 35 Yahoo groups.  I have never had a problem with Yahoo.  I rarely go to a Yahoo website unless I want to read a file.  I do all my receiving and sending of messages using Microsoft Outlook as my e-mail program.  Just as I am doing with this one.  If you want to stop having problems with Yahoo, use an e-mail program with individual e-mails as your option.

Dick

Re: Yahoo! problems.. Please Help!!!

Reply #10 – February 08, 2014, 07:18:45 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 144968

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Dick That"s fine and the way I usually do it. However that is not what you are supposed to have to do. That is the catch.. It is supposed to work on the web as well and it sorta does, but not near as well as before they "Fiixed it" . And even though it works fine for me as an email reflector( which sure don't need the servers Yahoo has) when I go to look at the for sale adds they have made that much more diffulcult than it was previously. And yes I also can do it but you can see by the questions that some can't..  And I also belong to many groups and the complaints are on all of them. This isn't a user problem and just because it works the way we use there is no excuse for it not working as it is supposed to...

Garry