We get lots of feature requests from people who want more control over who can chat in their channel. Today we started releasing new capabilities to address this.
- Ignore: Don’t want to see someone’s messages? Ignore them.
- Mute: Don’t want anyone to see someone’s messages in your channel? Mute them.
You can ignore or mute people by clicking on their name in the Who’s Here list, using the menu that pops up. You can ignore anyone you want at any time (if you’re logged in); muting is only for channel owners, in your channel.
You can manage your muted and ignored people just like Favorites: hit the Settings link in the top menu bar.
We also added a new way of using chat that only lets the people you pick chat in your channel. We’re calling these people VIPs. You can add or remove VIPs from inside your channel, or from Settings.
All new Yahoo! Live channels will be in VIP-only mode by default. If you want to make your chat room open to all, VIP-only, or close it entirely, you can do it in Settings.
For more info about VIPs, check the cheatsheet.
Just for the the record, we also added some more colors to chat messages, and made chat scrollback less infuriating. We’ll be refining these features over the next few weeks; let us know what you think in the comments.
…to accomodate an event at the office. See you there at 3:30!
Put together by our own Cool Keith T. Thanks!
We made Yahoo! Live so people could have fun with their cameras. Different people have different ideas of fun, and that’s cool, but some things are never fun in our book. These things include, but are not limited to, racism, harassment, porn, violence, and anything illegal. We just can’t tolerate that stuff on Yahoo! Live, and we’re certainly not providing the service for that. We’re going to blacklist and ban people who we think are making it difficult for others to be on the site.
That said, some of you who are currently blacklisted may want to keep using Live with your friends more than you want to keep doing that stuff. If that’s the case, send an email to ylive at yahoogroups.com, with contact info (IM or phone, no email please), and we’d be happy to get in touch for a chat.
Don’t forget to join us at 3 PST for the town hall!
One of my favorite Yahoo! Live channels is chickam2008. There’s no indirection, bait-and-switch, or rickroll going on here: It’s a bunch of baby chicks, keeping warm, growing, and clucking a bit.
I had to wake up ridiculously early yesterday, so I checked the Live home page, and was happy to find my little poultry there, completely oblivious. I double-clicked on the video to make it fullscreen (a secret/imperfect Yahoo! Live feature), and enjoyed my breakfast accompanied by the soothing sound of chicks.
I just have one small message for my favorite flock of chicks: When you grow up, please don’t forget the people who helped make you famous. We don’t want much — just a few fresh eggs from non-factory chickens, with their thick greenish shells and bright sunshine yolks. I know how good they taste, and I’d really like a few, please. I know you’ll have some to spare.
In the interest of fostering communication, harmony and the like, some folks from the Live team will be around in the livenao channel on Wednesdays from 3 - 3:30 PST.
Come visit!
