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Agreed. The businesses they have their hands in, they do poorly. Content? Most of the articles are from other sources and give you a snippet of the content wi

Agreed. The businesses they have their hands in, they do poorly. Content? Most of the articles are from other sources and give you a snippet of the content with a link to the actual article. Media? Again, their videos are curated from youtube and other video sites. Search engine? They have one of the worst in the business. Mozilla uses it as their default, which is helping, but most times I run a query on Yahoo, I get frustrated so I'll go back to Google anyways. Email service? Have you used the current version? I still have mine which has become a spam address I use now. The few times a month I go in and clean it out, it's practically unusable. It's clunky, it's terribly slow, and often times just randomly logs me out. News source? Most of the news is click baity, gossip, or other "viral" news and isn't that deep. If I want real news, I go somewhere else. I had no idea they have a Developer Network: https://developer.yahoo.com/ https://developer.yahoo.com/ How much visibility does it get? Hardly any. I'm not even sure they're really courting developers. Most of their cool products like Yahoo pipes were closed down years ago. Now throw in Verizon's offer to buy them. Maybe they'll have the balls to put the company out of its misery.

mooreds 11y ago
> Email service? Have you used the current version? I still have mine which has become a spam address I use now. The few times a month I go in and clean it out, it's practically unusable. It's clunky, it's terribly slow, and often times just randomly logs me out. I'm a heavy user of their email service. Have been for years. Even paid for it for a while. It's not as snappy as gmail (which I use for work) but I find it very usable. The mobile app has improved markedly over the last six months. I agree that their search engine is ... suboptimal. If you are looking for news or a common website ("where's that bank located?") it's fine, but for most of the searches I use for work, Google beats the pants off of them. However, if stackoverflow is in the yahoo results, it's usually the right answer. Anyway, not an apologist, just a happy user of yahoo mail.
- at-fates-hands 11y ago
  Have you done anything to improve your experience with their email, or are you just using the stock web version? I haven't used the mobile version yet, sensing it wouldn't be much better than the web app. I might give it another look and try it on mobile though.
  - mooreds 11y ago
    I'm using the stock web version (not the basic one). It's the one that is built on the bones of oddpost (so outlook-esque). Honestly, haven't done much to improve the experience. I did turn off the conversation view, because I don't like threading of my emails. I also have (over time) memorized the keyboard shortcuts: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3578.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3578.html Mobile is a different world. Still have ads, but just one at the top. It seems to get features before the web version (specifically when I reply to a message sent to one of my aliases, the mobile version was the first to set the 'from' correctly, but the web version seems to now). The only issue I've had with mobile is that sometimes I need to search for something twice, especially if I have cleared my cache.

mooreds 11y ago

> Email service? Have you used the current version? I still have mine which has become a spam address I use now. The few times a month I go in and clean it out, it's practically unusable. It's clunky, it's terribly slow, and often times just randomly logs me out. I'm a heavy user of their email service. Have been for years. Even paid for it for a while. It's not as snappy as gmail (which I use for work) but I find it very usable. The mobile app has improved markedly over the last six months. I agree that their search engine is ... suboptimal. If you are looking for news or a common website ("where's that bank located?") it's fine, but for most of the searches I use for work, Google beats the pants off of them. However, if stackoverflow is in the yahoo results, it's usually the right answer. Anyway, not an apologist, just a happy user of yahoo mail.

at-fates-hands 11y ago
Have you done anything to improve your experience with their email, or are you just using the stock web version? I haven't used the mobile version yet, sensing it wouldn't be much better than the web app. I might give it another look and try it on mobile though.
- mooreds 11y ago
  I'm using the stock web version (not the basic one). It's the one that is built on the bones of oddpost (so outlook-esque). Honestly, haven't done much to improve the experience. I did turn off the conversation view, because I don't like threading of my emails. I also have (over time) memorized the keyboard shortcuts: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3578.html https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3578.html Mobile is a different world. Still have ads, but just one at the top. It seems to get features before the web version (specifically when I reply to a message sent to one of my aliases, the mobile version was the first to set the 'from' correctly, but the web version seems to now). The only issue I've had with mobile is that sometimes I need to search for something twice, especially if I have cleared my cache.