Offline or Invisible?

An article on how to know whether a Yahoo! Messenger user is really offline or in "invisible" mode

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When a user seems offline, in fact he/she may be online but with Invisible status (avoiding you?), but Yahoo! Messenger will show him/her as offline (the gray face icon).

Then, how do you know whether he/she is offline or online? Just follow these simple steps carefully. It's really simple.

Just choose one (or get paid by clicking):

Method 1

Doodle IMvironment

Method 2

Stealth Settings Check

Method 3

Voice Chat

Method 4

Conference Invitation

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  1. See the main window of Yahoo! Messenger. An "offline" or "invisible" user will show a gray icon on the left of her name. In this example, we want to see if the user darling is online or not. Double-click on the username.
 Yahoo Messenger main window
  1. A message window will open. Send an arbitrary message to the user, or just send a BUZZ!!!. After sending, quickly proceed to step 3.
 Conversation window in which you begin the test conversation
  1. Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.
 The imvironment menu, choose doodle as the imv.
  1. The last step and the most important step. After loading the Doodle IMVironment, there will be two possibilities.
  • If the user is offline, the Doodle area will show "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously, like this:
    Waiting for your friend to load Doodle. Means that the user is offline.
  • But if the user is online (in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on connection speed), you will get a blank page. So the user is online!!!!
    Blank canvas. Means that the user is invisible.

Note that some methods only work in some versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Please Download Yahoo! Messenger in order to do the tricks.

This method no longer works in Yahoo! Messenger 7. Please use the Doodle method which still works.
  1. See the main window of Yahoo! Messenger. An "offline" or "invisible" user will show a gray icon on the left of her name. In this example, we want to see if the user darling is online or not. Right-click on the username.
 Yahoo Messenger main window
  1. When the menu appears, select Invite to Conference.
Right click and select Invite to conference on the username
  1. A window will appear. See at the right pane, the username darling will be there. Now, click Invite.
 Invite Friends to Conference window. Select only one username.
  1. The deciding part... there are 2 possible result:
  • If the user is offline, you will get this message:
    Yahoo Messenger Error window. None of the users in the invite list are available to join the conference. Please try at a later time.
  • But if the user is invisible, you will get a window similar to this:
    Voice conference window, waiting for the user to accept, it means the user is invisible.

 

Note that some methods only work in some versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Please Download Yahoo! Messenger in order to do the tricks.

Using a third-party program (We don't take any responsibility against the usage of the program, and please don't ask anything to me about this program!) called Destealther, you can know which users are in invisible state (aka. online) and which are offline.

But this program has a disadvantage. The program checks whether a user is online or offline based on Yahoo! web status. Therefore, status of a user whose Privacy Option is modified so the others cannot see the status, cannot be determined using this program.

However, it is said that after update of this program, the program works well even with that setting.

To get the program and instructions on how to use it, go to

But some methods only work in some versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Please Download Yahoo! Messenger in order to do the tricks.

This method is contributed by niri_mblr.

  

 

This method no longer works in Yahoo! Messenger 7. Please use the Doodle method which still works.
  1. See the main window of Yahoo! Messenger. An "offline" or "invisible" user will show a gray icon on the left of the username. Double-click on the username to open this window.
  1. Click on "Voice" icon on the toolbar, or select "Contact" menu and select "Enable Voice Chat" .
Right click and select Invite to conference on the username
  1. The deciding part... there are 2 possible result:
  • If the user is offline, you will get this message:
    Yahoo Messenger Error window. None of the users in the invite list are available to join the conference. Please try at a later time.
  • But if the user is invisible (actually online), you will see the Voice Toolbar (marked red in the picture) like this:

Note that some methods only work in some versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Please Download Yahoo! Messenger in order to do the tricks.

This method is contributed by Deepak.L. and Shraddha.
This method doesn't actually detect invisible users (who set his/her status as "Invisible"), but will detect users that uses Stealth Settings to hide from you!

As you may know, Yahoo! Messenger version 6 adds a new feature that lets users select which contacts they don't want to be visible to.

It is done by right-clicking a contact and selecting Stealth Settings from the menu, as shown in the picture on the left.

Now you can find who hides from you! Use the form below, just fill in the username of the person who you suspect hiding from you and click the Check Status button!

Username:

Result: <none>

However I found this cannot work for users who have opted in to something like "Don't show my status to Yahoo! web sites". But these kind of users are rare.

Note that some methods only work in some versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Please Download Yahoo! Messenger in order to do the tricks.

 

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