14 DAY TRIAL // A few days ago, numerous consumers reported an annoying bug in Yahoo Messenger which apparently limited most of the users' statuses to no more than 40 characters. Until now, all the users who installed the application were able to set a status of a maximum of 250 characters which makes the limitation pretty annoying. Since the affected consumers started sending reports to the Sunnyvale company and developer of Yahoo Messenger, nobody inside the giant portal said a thing about this glitch but it was pretty obvious something weird happened since numerous consumers reported it.
Today, the Yahoo representatives confirmed there was an error in Yahoo Messenger and sustained it is now fixed. In the last few days, several patches supposed to fix the flaw were published on the web but Yahoo's officials didn't say a thing about them. Obviously, you're advised to update your application using only Yahoo-signed fixes so avoid installing other patches unless you're sure you're protected as they might harm your computer.
"Some of you have left comments about this issue in the last couple of days? There was a change made to the length of status messages that reduced the maximum characters to 40. It was an inadvertent change and we're working now on rolling it back to what it was (250 character max). Thanks for your patience!" Sarah Bacon, Product Manager, wrote today on the official blog of the Sunnyvale company.
Yahoo didn't mention if the patch is automatically delivered through the auto-update feature or it might be installed manually by every user. However, since it didn't provide any download link, I think the fix is automatically delivered on your computer so I guess you're protected now.
If you want to download the latest version of Yahoo Messenger, you can take it straight from Softpedia.