I posted here previously how Yahoo! were making signing up for an account difficult if you were Irish (you had to fake a postcode and their validation code wouldn’t accept most attempts). This affects you if you want to use any of their services, Flickr, Del.ic.ious, Mail, etc.
Well, in a recent comment on my screenshot of the offending sign-up page, Kevin Collins, who works for Yahoo! said that this issue has been resolved:
I’ve been following this internal change, and it looks like it was pushed out to production; the postal code field for Ireland has been removed
Sure enough when I went to the Yahoo! sign-up page and chose Ireland, the Postcode field disappeared:
Kudos to Yahoo! for (finally) fixing this.
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4 responses to “Yahoo! no longer require a postcode if you are Irish!”
Nice find Tom. It is about time too!
Now if they would only open the ambassador program and perhaps their YPN network to Europe they might have a chance at gaining some market share next quarter.
Thanks be to jaysus
chang ma post code
There are other ‘errors’ in Y!Ireland. I signed up and found that “list profiles” displays an blank page when content is set to “Ireland”,but shows the edit/list page correctly if content is set to UK, however in this case the choice of returning to Y!Ireland content disappears. It does appear if the Y!US content is set.
I guess Y!UK/IRELAND is a work in progress.
Slanté