Does the Profile says your online when you go invisible?

[Cchris78]

If you go invisible and Your profile shows you as online.

I recommend going to 8.1, It will fix the problem.

Or in messenger click on the messenger dropdown menu, select My profiles, click create/edit my profiles, then click on "Check the box to hide my online status () from other users.What's this?"
Your profile will always appear offline.

Or set your messenger to always logon invisible. Your profile will also always appear offline, Even when you go visible.

[Eagle_Kiwi]

Chris, do you mean someone's Yahoo profile (which for many people is actually now their Yahoo 360 page) - I'm puzzled about exactly WHERE I might "appear offline".

[Cchris78]

No i mean profile.yahoo.com/USERNAME Most people i see do not have a 360 account yet.

They fixed the problem with Yahoo messenger 8.1

[Eagle_Kiwi]

Chris - firstly, I'd doubt if even 10% of Yahoo users would have a 360 profile, but that's still a sizable enough proportion to need to include them in your statement, as it doesn't make sense for any of them (regardless of whether YOU happen to know many 360 users or not).

And further, I find your whole post very hard to unravel - I figured the last paragraph was referring to 8.1, but now I guess it doesn't !?!? (But if not, it seems to be simply repeating/contradicting what your FIRST paragraph said!?)

Am I thick .... or are others confused by what you're trying to say too, I wonder ?

[Cchris78]

wow you confused me.

All I am trying to say is, If you look at your profile while you are invisible, and your profile shows you as online. I listed three ways to have your profile show offline.

360 does not have the problem.

[niq6566]

Hmm well Chris thats surely true, but thats nothing new or special for version 8 only.

[Cchris78]

just posting for people that want it to stop showing online.

[Dermot]

Well having your profile to show online isn't the same as having your online status online...as the opi server ain't worth anything lately

You can change this open in the edit profile area of http://edit.yahoo.com/ under create/edit profiles

which is just the same as doing it via the messenger.

[Cchris78]

Dermot your link goes to My Yahoo! service, I think the link you meant to post is: Yahoo! Member Directory If you are not logged in Yahoo! click on View My Profiles on the top right side

[Dermot]

Well yeah thats if you have a my yahoo page, most of my accounts do not.

there are two types of profiles, both give different results on the "online now/offline now" part of them.

But yeah it is just a matter of going through all your yahoo! main line options and unticking visiability on websites etc.

But as i said the opi servers used for the status are not very reliable and are known to show you online even if you're not.