Tired of changes to Yahoo

[Texas Proud]

This is a pet peeve, but want to start another thread as others might have some thoughts on this....


I am getting so fed up with the changes at Yahoo under Marissa Mayer... things started to change for the worse when she came in and over and over again they seem to affect me...


The latest that I am mad about is when I use my tablet... a few days ago when you looked at Yahoo there were many stories on the top that you could slide to the side and look at the next... it was not too tall and did not cover the screen... a nice feature if you wanted... or, you could just scroll down the screen and look at some...

Well, now that is not an option... now, there is a story that covers the screen... kinda big... and I cannot scroll to the next story... and even when I tap the pic of the next story nothing happens...


I used to be able to scroll down the stories and when I got to the bottom it would let me load more... not an option anymore... you only get the stories they have...


This site is getting more and more useless for me except that I have my email with them... and I do not like Google....

There is more, and I will post later some other complaints I have with the site...

 

[DrRoy]

I also miss the feature that lets you scroll through the news stories.

 

[bld999]

SOP for any website, seems to me. Have you found one that doesn't change over time? Usually these changes are are an effect built into "improvements"
to sites. I have to google features about google pages to learn detailed operation and controls.

Another topic, but I am guessing Yahoo will be much changed with Verizon at the wheel. They will part it out and build a new ship that suits their needs, so I am guessing changes will be the new normal.

 

[easysurfer]

I defected away from Yahoo to Google when Yahoo started monkeying around with their classic look. I think Google's news page looks like the way Yahoo used to look like.

 

[W2R]

I don't use Yahoo as my homepage any more, so I really hadn't paid any attention to changes or lack of same on Yahoo in the past year or so. If you are using Yahoo as your homepage, I would heartily recommend switching in order to maintain a placid state of mind.

 

[Texas Proud]

SOP for any website, seems to me. Have you found one that doesn't change over time? Usually these changes are are an effect built into "improvements"
to sites. I have to google features about google pages to learn detailed operation and controls.

Another topic, but I am guessing Yahoo will be much changed with Verizon at the wheel. They will part it out and build a new ship that suits their needs, so I am guessing changes will be the new normal.

I do not mind improvements if they really are improvements....

Some of what they have done boggles the mind...

An example... I use Yahoo for fantasy sports... so this year they decided to have a 'game of the day' on the fantasy sport page... whenever I go to that page this baseball games starts playing live!!! There is no way to turn it off... I do NOT want to watch a game THEY decided to show... but I cannot get to my teams without going thru this page... and it has to load every time slowing down what I want to do....


The front page seems to be very busy now...


I was OK with a number of their changes as I could either ignore them or work around them.... however, my reading from my tablet now is broke completely.... how is that improvement

 

[Walt34]

I've pretty much stopped using the Yahoo site for the reasons listed above and some others.

 

[bld999]

".... how is that improvement"

The quotation marks around improvement in my post are there to suggest sarcasm.

I feel you. I have this picture of cadres of young coders making changes to things that have nothing to do with usability, but simply allow them to crow "dude, check this change I made... it makes my algorithm buzz!" It's like changing the controls around in a car or something.

Jump ship, show them how much you like the change. I sincerely think Yahoo is toast, btw.

 

[bluescityleon]

What doesn't change ?

This is a pet peeve, but want to start another thread as others might have some thoughts on this....


I am getting so fed up with the changes at Yahoo under Marissa Mayer... things started to change for the worse when she came in and over and over again they seem to affect me...


The latest that I am mad about is when I use my tablet... a few days ago when you looked at Yahoo there were many stories on the top that you could slide to the side and look at the next... it was not too tall and did not cover the screen... a nice feature if you wanted... or, you could just scroll down the screen and look at some...

Well, now that is not an option... now, there is a story that covers the screen... kinda big... and I cannot scroll to the next story... and even when I tap the pic of the next story nothing happens...


I used to be able to scroll down the stories and when I got to the bottom it would let me load more... not an option anymore... you only get the stories they have...


This site is getting more and more useless for me except that I have my email with them... and I do not like Google....

There is more, and I will post later some other complaints I have with the site...

What ? Never mind it just changed..... Sorry, I'....m new here I don't read yahoo's stories. I like real fiction....... I got here because I watched an Oxford Club AD. I've learned the hard way ...Ads are like politicians.

 

[GrayHare]

Yahoo pages are way too cluttered. Reminds me of what happened to Alta Vista shortly before Google ate their lunch. Yahoo groups were decent until they mucked with the design they'd inherited from eGroups.

 

[Helena]

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I love my Yahoo mail.

I have Google mail too; but I like Yahoo much better.

I'm waiting for whoever took over Yahoo to destroy Yahoo mail too. Then Yahoo will truly bite the dust.

 

[Ronnieboy]

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I love my Yahoo mail.

I have Google mail too; but I like Yahoo much better.

I'm waiting for whoever took over Yahoo to destroy Yahoo mail too. Then Yahoo will truly bite the dust.

Yes me too.

I have had yahoo email for almost 20 years, I don't want to change to another email provider.

 

[braumeister]

I've pretty much stopped using the Yahoo site for the reasons listed above and some others.

Walt's ahead of the curve again.
I doubt we'll have to wait much longer until nobody uses the Yahoo site, because there won't be one.

Remember the excitement back in 1995 when Yahoo was new and the greatest thing since sliced bread?
Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle

 

[easysurfer]

Yes me too.

I have had yahoo email for almost 20 years, I don't want to change to another email provider.

Though not my go to email, I'm protective of my aol email accounts .

 

[Texas Proud]

Yes me too.

I have had yahoo email for almost 20 years, I don't want to change to another email provider.

I wonder how long I have had yahoo email..... I do like it, but they changed that also... and not for the better IMO... but, I was able to work around it with options etc. and am OK with the current setup...

Now, I still have an Excite email address (anybody remember them?)... and it has gone way downhill... I cannot even open it in Firefox with the ad blocker... and I get SO many spam emails that it is not worth much... but, I use it as my throwaway email address when I buy stuff as it is my actual name...

 

[Helena]

Yes me too.

I have had yahoo email for almost 20 years, I don't want to change to another email provider.

I've had my Yahoo mail since I come on the internet 16 years ago. I've been paying $20 a year for unlimited storage and no ads.

But I usually have java script turned off so I can view internet websites without ads.

.

 

[Tadpole]

Yahoo thinks I need high security for my junk email account with fake user and junk email account on gmail as my secondary. So they pester and pester and pester. They did bully me into a password change but that's about all. They must be nuts to think I trust them with a cell number. They refuse any VOIP numbers.

 

[Helena]

Yahoo thinks I need high security for my junk email account with fake user and junk email account on gmail as my secondary. So they pester and pester and pester. They did bully me into a password change but that's about all. They must be nuts to think I trust them with a cell number. They refuse any VOIP numbers.

Yahoo assumes everyone has a cell phone. I don't.

.

 

[cbo111]

I've been using Yahoo email for 20+ years so its hard to switch, or maybe I am just too lazy. I kind of stopped scrolling for news articles. Most of the popular search engines tailor the list to what they "think" I want to read about. So.....the list gets pretty scary looking.
Oh, and I was just notified by the Yahoo chief of security that my data may have been compromised. Nice!
Chuck

 

[Totoro]

They started meddling with Yahoo Finance too, not for the better in my view.

Hope they don't kill the (implicit) API to get bulk quotes easily. Then I wouldn't have any reason at all anymore to use them.

 

[John Galt III]

Too many ads everywhere one looks. How long until adblockers no longer work?

 

[brucethebroker]

I have Yahoo mail, and have had to change my password 5-6 times over the last two months. (They seem to have a 'timer" on Goggle chrome saved PW's). Since I can never remember the PW I am forced to change. Then I have to change my smart phone over to the new PW-wot a hassle!
I also have a G-mail account, but have been using Yahoo for 17 years for business and personal, along with numerous stored docs. Afraid it's going to be a large deal to change...

 

[Totoro]

Not yahoo specific but they are a big offender: The rise of the infernal pest of sponsored blogs and Taboola-like networks "One weird trick is making these americans rich"

It's making the web more unusable with every passing day. Hoping somebody takes up the challenge and creates an information-rich web that can be searched separately.

 

[Gotadimple]

Yahoo pages are way too cluttered. Reminds me of what happened to Alta Vista shortly before Google ate their lunch. Yahoo groups were decent until they mucked with the design they'd inherited from eGroups.

+1

 

[Texas Proud]

Not yahoo specific but they are a big offender: The rise of the infernal pest of sponsored blogs and Taboola-like networks "One weird trick is making these americans rich"

It's making the web more unusable with every passing day. Hoping somebody takes up the challenge and creates an information-rich web that can be searched separately.

Yes, this is a big problem with Yahoo.... but as you say, a good number of sites are doing this...

I remember clicking on a story and at the bottom ALL of the recommended stories were from one of these sites...