Frequently asked questions

Buzzd Chat is a service that aims to bring back, as close to the original as possible, the Yahoo! Messenger experience.

Your account can be locked if:
1. Your email address is not verified
2. You've entered a wrong password multiple times
3. You've been banned.
Solutions:
1. Make sure your email address is valid and that you've checked your spam folder for the verification email.
2. You can wait a couple of hours for your account to be unlocked automatically or contact us.
3. You can appeal your ban, though you'll most probably remain banned.

Make sure you're entering the username you registered with and not your email address.
To find you your username, you can check your profile page here

Most of the Yahoo! Messenger content is Flash based. You can download Flash Player from here.

Both of these features rely on two completely different proprietary protocols. Reverse engineering them takes a lot of time and effort. Once more developers join the project, we'll be able to allocate more time to these features.

Currently, we support only the official clients, and probably we'll never support any 3rd party clients.
We don't see the point of using a revival project with anything other than the official clients.
It doesn't make much sense, especially since all 3rd party clients support only a small subset of all the official features.
That being said, if anyone is interested in patching/updating a 3rd party client to work with our project, we're happy to help as much as reasonably possible.

At the moment we're focusing on making as many features as possible functional.
Once we feel we're in a good place with the amount of features we've got working, we'll start working on supporting both older and newer versions.
Spoiler alert: we've already tested and got (almost fully) working versions 8.1 and 10, but are not yet ready to be released.

We're storing only the offline messages for up to 2 weeks.
Once the recipient logs in we're sending them the offline messages and delete them from our database.
If the recipient doesn't log in during that 2 weeks retention period, the messages get deleted automatically.

The project was started by @bogdannbv as a passion project around January 2024.
Later on, @xsl1ck joined and took over the community aspect of the project.

The short answer is no.
The long answer is that probably, as the project grows, the hosting cost will increase, and at some point we'll have to introduce either donations or merch or even both.
What's clear though is that we won't be "paywalling" the service or features in any way, shape or form.
All the donations will be completely optional.