Comments on: Farewell Yahoo 360 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/ Insider's Perspective of Saigon, Vietnam Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:34:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sad US 360User http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33639 Sad US 360User Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:39:05 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33639 I've read the comments and I must agree with most of the things said about Yahoo, however, concerning the drop in user activity, it was their own fault. We faithful bloggers were told nearly 2 years ago that the site was being taken away for bigger and better things. Many users packed up and left at that point...some jumped ship to places like Facebook, MySpace, and Multiply. Problem was...it just didn't have the community that had been built on 360. And honestly, for people like me, they liked the ability use the service without being a true tech wiz. If I wanted to change my background...I could do it without knowing how to use a CSS code thingy and it wasn't designed by someone else...it was based on what I was feeling, and the theme I wanted for my page, or whatever I pulled out of my creative senses. Back in 2006 and 2007, I could post a blog entry and not fear that it would just disappear. My page morphed into a porch setting, where visitors would read my stuff, listen to a little music on the player, comment as if in a party setting with ease. I loved the parties we had. The other sites just don't facilitate that sort of interaction. Some users had the slickest page looks and there was room to display creativity that many didn't know we had in reaching large audiences. The 360 community was not perfect...lacked many of the newer applications that some demand...but it was truly a community. Each page being like the home of a good friend that you could stop by comment, share a coffee with and move on to the next residence. 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. I’ve read the comments and I must agree with most of the things said about Yahoo, however, concerning the drop in user activity, it was their own fault. We faithful bloggers were told nearly 2 years ago that the site was being taken away for bigger and better things. Many users packed up and left at that point…some jumped ship to places like Facebook, MySpace, and Multiply. Problem was…it just didn’t have the community that had been built on 360. And honestly, for people like me, they liked the ability use the service without being a true tech wiz. If I wanted to change my background…I could do it without knowing how to use a CSS code thingy and it wasn’t designed by someone else…it was based on what I was feeling, and the theme I wanted for my page, or whatever I pulled out of my creative senses. Back in 2006 and 2007, I could post a blog entry and not fear that it would just disappear. My page morphed into a porch setting, where visitors would read my stuff, listen to a little music on the player, comment as if in a party setting with ease. I loved the parties we had. The other sites just don’t facilitate that sort of interaction. Some users had the slickest page looks and there was room to display creativity that many didn’t know we had in reaching large audiences. The 360 community was not perfect…lacked many of the newer applications that some demand…but it was truly a community. Each page being like the home of a good friend that you could stop by comment, share a coffee with and move on to the next residence.

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.

]]> By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin) http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33490 SaigonNezumi (Kevin) Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:14:16 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33490 Yahoo made a big mistake here. They could have kept it alive with a Vietnamese team to keep 360 going. Or at least offer to sell it. Yahoo made a big mistake here. They could have kept it alive with a Vietnamese team to keep 360 going. Or at least offer to sell it.

]]> By: Ken http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33489 Ken Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:47:53 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33489 It's the beginning of the end for Yahoo 360! The official shutdown date has been set for July 13, 2009. It’s the beginning of the end for Yahoo 360! The official shutdown date has been set for July 13, 2009.

]]> By: anonymous http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33485 anonymous Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:20:17 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33485 Wow! Great site. I'm a really Vietnamese people and living in Ho Chi Minh city. Where do you live now? Wow! Great site.
I’m a really Vietnamese people and living in Ho Chi Minh city.
Where do you live now?

]]> By: TaiTran http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33340 TaiTran Sat, 09 May 2009 06:20:29 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33340 My sheer personal prediction and I'm open to discussion. :) My sheer personal prediction and I’m open to discussion. :)

]]> By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin) http://www.saigonnezumi.com/2009/05/03/farewell-yahoo-360/comment-page-1/#comment-33323 SaigonNezumi (Kevin) Tue, 05 May 2009 12:21:31 +0000 http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=1586#comment-33323 Hey Tai: Can you please cite your sources on this one please? :-) Hey Tai:

Can you please cite your sources on this one please? :-)

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