Yahoo Chat Room- Is It Still Available? | TECHNOBUG
Yahoo has always been an integral part of the life of internet users. Whether for emailing or chatting, Yahoo has served every single purpose that it was created for. Long-time back, Yahoo Messenger and its chat rooms were largely popular all across the planet .
Evolution of Yahoo Chat Rooms
Yahoo! Chat room facility was first launched on January 7, 1997, as a public chat room service. Later on, the first public version of Yahoo! Pager was announced and it had Yahoo! Chat as one of its features.
The 90’s kids have so many memories of using Yahoo Chat rooms, chatting with random people from all over the world and befriending some of them too.
In 1999, this service was renamed to Yahoo! Messenger and in 2012 the chat room service was completely pack up by Yahoo. A large number of Yahoo users were disturbed when Yahoo announced taking down its ‘Yahoo Chat Room’ feature.
The reason that they revealed for this decision was, it would help them to make space for future growth and it will allow them to put forward other Yahoo products that are lacking behind.
The Era of Yahoo Messenger
After the Yahoo Chat Room feature was put to an end, in 2015, a replacement Yahoo! Messenger was released. It had all the features that were sufficient to replace the older one. The previous version of Yahoo Messenger app was almost similar to other messaging apps. It allowed its users to send free text messages, GIFs, images, emoticons, and other important documents.
Lots of changes were included in the Yahoo Messenger over the years. So when it came back in 2015, it allowed the facility of undoing the messages sent on the messenger, chatting to a group of people at the same time and much more.
Apart from this, a talk room service, VoIP, Yahoo! 360 integration, voicemail, video calling, Flickr support, in-chat YouTube streaming, and the ability to chat with Facebook friends are some of the other features offered by Yahoo Messenger.
Discontinuation of Yahoo Chat Room Services
Finally, on July 17, 2018, Yahoo! Messenger was shut down entirely. But it had been partially replaced by a replacement service named Yahoo Together that was also discontinued on April 4, 2019. So immediately , Yahoo has no replacement for its messenger service
It is a common action taken by reputed services like Yahoo to put a full stop to some of their services. They always look for the areas where they have more scope of growth even if it meant putting an end to the existing ones. There are other major factors as well such as users drop out, the emergence of competing services, loss of money, etc., that are considered before taking such a decision.
As per the statement released by Yahoo, they ended Yahoo Messenger to avert time and resources to other communication tools as well.
Replacements of Yahoo Chat Room
There are a number of apps that have been discovered over the years such as Facebook Messenger, Skype, Whatsapp, and Chatt Room. All these services may not work similar to Yahoo Chat Room but they will definitely serve the purpose of sending text messages, images, videos or making audio or video calls.
Originally published at https://thetechnobug.info on July 30, 2020.
