yahoo.com > Reviews > Good system but has problems

Author's product rating:   

Quality of Discussions

Average

Advantages:	part of a major site
Disadvantages:	problems with IM's

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

Yahoo chat is a handy site to use for the reason its part of the huge yahoo network, that helps you communicate with people in several ways.
You can add someone you're talking to to a friends list that helps secure future contacts, telling you when the friend you added is online.
This is all a very useful tool, and i found it so when i first started using it, however over the last few months the reliability has gone down hill, with many chatters experiencing problems with locating their friends online. For example it may not show a friend to be online even though they are, vice versa, or just simply not deliver an instant message, causing confusion or mixup with who you're talking to!!

I clicked on 'no' for 'recommendation to potential buyers' because of the problems caused, and I suggest other alternatives, although the buddy system is more intergrated in chat than in any other chat site i can think of.