# Does anyone know what's happening with Yahoo! ?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558 "2004-08-19T15:21:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/1 "2004-08-19T15:21:07Z")
All I get when I try to access my email is “Do you Yahoo?” In big bold letters on a white screen. At first I thought “ **Maureen** , you dummy, what’d you do wrong?” as my eyes are barely open and I am pre caffeine. But no, I’m still getting that response. Any of you East Coast dopers who’ve been up for a while got a clue for me? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/2 "2004-08-19T15:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Do you Yahoo? Apparently not… Just tried mine. It’s working fine. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/3 "2004-08-19T15:28:20Z")
Mine worked fine this morning. Is it a popup, or one of those vastly irritating things that crawls across your screen and keeps you from seeing the website? ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/4 "2004-08-19T15:30:04Z")
Mine works fine too, sorry no help here. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/5 "2004-08-19T15:35:27Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Mine worked fine this morning. Is it a popup, or one of those vastly irritating things that crawls across your screen and keeps you from seeing the website? No, it’s just a plain white screen with that at the top. Very strange. Maybe coffee will help, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/6 "2004-08-19T15:37:50Z")
I looked at Yahoo help. Basically, for all loading problems it says ‘wait 10 minutes and try again’. so… yeah. not too helpful. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/7 "2004-08-19T15:41:00Z")
Okay, the weirdness progresses. When I access the mail option from Yahoo’s main page, I can get in. Hitting the mail button on my toolbar gets the weirdo message. I reported it, so we shall see… ---
**Author:** ![rowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@rowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/8 "2004-08-19T17:16:22Z")
Sounds like something might have altered your Mail link. Check it out and make sure that it’s pointing to Yahoo mail, instead of whatever site you’re ending up at. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-whats-happening-with-yahoo/260558/9 "2004-08-19T17:43:13Z")
**rowe** , that turned out to be the case. Thanks very much for the suggestion, it was driving me slightly paranoid. 🙂