Tom Raftery’s Social Media

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.