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* --- From Alex Bleuvent
[Mail Me][Tuesday, August 19th, 2003 at 15:16:41]
- Comments:
- What' your name?.... ¿Angel?
* nothing--- From Birnir cool dude
[Mail Me][Saturday, April 19th, 2003 at 12:08:54]
* Purple--- From Jody
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Sunday, April 7th, 2002 at 10:13:08]
- Comments:
- i am saing /-/ello to all.
* TBA--- From Yahoo! study
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Monday, March 25th, 2002 at 14:41:50]
- Comments:
- I've been on the Internet all my spare time for the past 8 years.
Yahoo! just burned their last straw with friends and I,
and we are going to create a "Yahoo! study website" (Yahoo! watch).
Here is a small example of recent problems...
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Hi everyone.
My friend is emailing Yahoo! with this...
Yahoo! is a crime against Humanity ? ..............
Yahoo!'s mail service is good.
But.....
(1)
Yahoo! just recently changed Clubs to Groups in a stupid criminal
way...
My friends site here links to this...
http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/freeufovideos
from here...
http://ebe-ufos.tripod.com
...but Yahoo! goes to "login" instead of going to here...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freeufovideos/
...
You Yahoo! decision makers contributing to crap are crappy.
(2)
Even Google.com has spoken out against Yahoo!'s mind fookin pop-up
ads. And Yahoo!'s flashy blinking ads that disturb people's minds
when they are trying to read a message or news at Yahoo! Groups.
(3)
We have noticed for many months how Yahoo!'s message boards don't
allow posting of about two or three or four links in the one message,
which is sad for some newbies spending an hour typing a good message
with some good links, only to find yahoo!'s systems reject the message
in a way or two after the newbie posts the message.
(4)
Money is the most important thing to Yahoo!
Not compassion, intelligence, or beauty.
Sure money is important, but Yahoo! is missing the other three.
* Titanic On The World Wide Web--- From Jay
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Sunday, May 27th, 2001 at 00:08:01]
- Comments:
- If having rings with just over 100 sites
literally taken away from you is bitter,
you'll know what it feels to have a ring with over 2000 people taken away.
Titanic On The World Wide Web was probably
one of the most successful titanic webrings
on webring.org.
I did the best I could to offer free services to members,
and we got pretty large after a while.
sometime in 1996 yahoo deleted our site from geocities,
something about copyright infringement which turned out to be false anyways.
then we turned to angelfire, who assured us we would be safe on their servers.
in 1998 we were planning a huge move forward,
to create a group of webrings managed under the title
of oasis web communications (http://oasisweb.hypermart.net)
we would let ppl run rings under our name, using our well-established "brand", you could say.
but just when we were starting to get on track,
i found out that webring had changed.
it had changed so much i didn't even recognize it.
i had only been offline for a few months.
now, 13 rings, thousands of members, and a great service are gone.
how i miss that beautiful webring logo.
i miss the sleek proffesional design i used to see on my screen.
most of all, i have give up...
i guess will will never get to see "the shape of things to come" again.
* -=Scythian WebRing=---- From Johnny Thunderbird
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Thursday, April 5th, 2001 at 07:56:34]
- Comments:
- Malevolent idiocy is Yahoo! They have totally eliminated the concept of community fronm the Webring structure, for it lacked merchantability.
Categorical fascism is their single approach to our multifarious expression. Clearing bandwidth for commerce must require the sacrifice of human exchange of ideas, which are neither goods nor services, neither hobbies nor religions nor government nor K-12 nor institutional nor regional nor industrial nor manufacturing nor agrarian nor any other category Yahoo! has ever heard of, but are merely products of human creativity.
There is only one comment I have been able to think up for Yahoo's total ruination of the Webring system: up against the wall, motherfucker.
* The Grrrlbands Webring--- From Karo
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Sunday, January 28th, 2001 at 09:59:52]
- Comments:
- Now the Yahoo a$$holes have done it. They have ruined eGroups, which is now called "Yahoo!Groups". My recommendation: Move your mailing list to http://topica.com
* BiFems--- From Angelika
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Tuesday, January 23rd, 2001 at 07:40:04]
- Comments:
- I had a shock when I noticed that my bifems nav bar was not working. I'm glad that I found the correct web ring. I have resubmited my application to join your webring. My new id is 46. My old id was 112. It still shows up in the yahoo ring.
Thank you for your efforts,
Angelika
* Eclipse Cahsers Web Ring--- From Kryss Katsiavriades
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Friday, December 15th, 2000 at 20:20:31]
- Comments:
- I fully agree. For me it's worse as dates in the USA are written MM/DD/YYYY whears everywhere else (Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia) they are written DD/MM/YYY. Yahoo just assumes that everybody on the net is from the USA.
* Elim Garak webring--- From Cattnip
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Sunday, November 26th, 2000 at 06:52:17]
- Comments:
- I can't deal with Yahoo! at all. I wanted to give them a chance, and when I saw that our old fragments would still work, I thought things would be fine. But then I discovered that those insidious nav bars never go away - when you join a new ring, the code places ALL of the navigation bars for EVERY ring you belong to on your site! I refuse to join any more Yahoo! rings. The only reason I don't move mine is because it's a very specific subject, and I don't want to displace people unless it's absolutely necessary.
* Anti-Yahoo--- From Merely
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Friday, October 27th, 2000 at 23:31:31]
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- All I know is that I was accepted into the Anti-Yahoo webring a few days ago by a nice man named Harold, and today I was kicked out. No explanation no nothing. I haven't visited one members page yet, signed a book, sent an e-mail. I wish I knew what I did wrong. Oh and the ring was put up immediately, no problem there. Any thoughts?
* Guardian Angels Watching Over Them--- From Shari
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000 at 18:29:49]
- Comments:
- I am Co Mistress of a child abuse webring. We left Yahoo webring because of the insane way it is being ran. Geocities deleted part of our webpages! They have some webpages on geocities concerning boy-love and our group was petitioning geocities to remove this trash, the pictures are unbelievable. For this reason, they decided we were "trouble makers" Its ok to exploit children but DON"T DEFEND and help children! These boy-love pages on still on, intact!
* --- From Sierra
[Mail Me][Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000 at 16:05:25]
- Comments:
- In response to the last comment... I believe the answer is "eGroups", unfortunately.
* --- From Anonimee
[Mail Me][Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000 at 15:54:52]
- Comments:
- Yahoo thinks they have the right to own everything and totally ruin it.. they did it with Geocities and completely what all the citizens worked so hard for.. and now Webring.. what the hell is next? They suck!
* --- From Yvonne
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Saturday, September 30th, 2000 at 02:30:11]
- Comments:
- You are ASOLUTELY RIGHT FOR 100% !!!
I hope everybody will add the anti yahoo ring on his page.And keeping up the good work.
Best Regards Yvonne
* IG Listees--- From karen
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Tuesday, September 19th, 2000 at 22:15:32]
- Comments:
- i agree 100%. the yahoo takeover sucks!
* The Grrrlbands Webring--- From Karo
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Monday, September 18th, 2000 at 15:57:11]
- Comments:
- NO WAY I'm going to sign up with a service that forces me to accept cookies and lower the security settings of my browser. My private data is nobody's business, so fuck Yahoo! I've moved my webring to my own webspace, and my hitcounter reassures me that I need no shitty monopolists for the success of my webring.
* The First Amendment Web Ring.--- From Jayson Cooper
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Monday, September 18th, 2000 at 07:30:23]
- Comments:
- I have to say I'm a little bitter, as you may gather from the above web site. I was managing a web ring that had a little over 100 members to it. It's home page over the few years it has been up has received over 27 million hits. All in all it was popular, it was fun, and it was one of my proudest creations. Go to my site to see more info. http://www.chameleonsplayland.com/Yahoo
* childfree--- From The Turtle
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Sunday, September 17th, 2000 at 11:17:59]
- Comments:
- Yeah! Can definitely agree with the comments. The new control system doesn't have any option to modify a user's input before adding their site... it's all or nothing, so all those sites that users submitted to my ring with misspelled keywords, etc., I can't do anything about until AFTER I've already added them. I can't even review it.
Yahoo! has perverted a tool which was invented to help users and sites, and instead turned it into a way to drive more traffic... to Yahoo alone. Fuck 'em. I'm leaving. RingSurf would do well to come up with a way to have an entire ring defect en masse... my ring was 66 sites generating 3000 hits a week. Was Yahoo! going to pay us anything for driving that traffic to them? No.
Turtle
* The Trybe Ring, LeatherSpace, I Pages--- From Tratichema Colbiras
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Tuesday, September 12th, 2000 at 21:36:00]
- Comments:
- When I first came to the WebRing I discovered one of the most interesting and useful tools invented for the internet. What better way to bring people together and find information then to loop them together in endless rings and chains of rings? It was the web as it should be, an ideal.
Then Sage sold his brainchild to Starseed Corp. Some random entity that gave him a fat check and the reassurance that they would run his ring the way he had it and that it wouldn't be sold to some company like Yahoo!/GeoCities. When this happened I was dismayed but hopeful that the WebRing would survive this change, and for a while it seemed to. I didn't care for the new owners of the entity that is known as WebRing, but they didn't change that much except for the occasional annoying banner add. In fact, things were beginning to improve.
Yahoo! bought GeoCities recently, and quite a few people remember the hoopla that surrounded some of the policy changes involved in that change. Thankfully, by then I had removed myself from GeoCities, and promptly did the best I could to remove myself from Yahoo! Unfortunately, to this day I have been unable to delete my account from their servers because I cannot remember all the original information I gave them (which was falsified to protect my privacy), which is what they need to make sure I'm sure I want to end my relationship with them. I'm a little bit bitter about this.
The fateful day came when I found out that Yahoo! bought WebRing. I was shocked, I was dismayed and most certainly angry. Call it a belief in the individual and the little guy, but I dislike it when huge corperations extend their grasp and their bank accounts by buying innovative entities like WebRing. I also dislike it when innovative entities break their spines and their integrity for the Big Paycheck.
Yes, I believe that Starseed, Corp. sold out WebRing to Yahoo!/GeoCities.
I'm still bitter.
* Ring of the Night and others--- From Sierra
[Mail Me | Visit My Homepage][Monday, September 11th, 2000 at 00:46:25]
- Comments:
- Well you've seen what I have to say... it's sad to let go of some of my rings but there were just too many people for me to want to move somewhere else. It's always sad to see a good thing come to a bad end.
