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I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I'm a regular yahoo (frontage) visiter. It's entirely muscle memory for me, I've been using the site since the mid 90's. T
by bstar77 10y ago
I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I'm a regular yahoo (frontage) visiter. It's entirely muscle memory for me, I've been using the site since the mid 90's.
The only things I've noticed in her tenure are that they've really streamlined their click bait articles, built custom results based on viewing habits and integrated sketchy 3rd party promoted ads and everything gets a summarization. It's all meant to keep you clicking on their site, whore you out to one of their ad partners or just capitalize on ADD people with TLDRs everywhere.
Technically, they've implemented JavaScript based article preview overlays that keep you on the site, but create a terrible experience when you want to go offsite to view the whole article- you want to continue from where you left off, but realize that you have to start over because you just read a bad summary. Yahoo really embraced that kid's summarization engine that they purchased a few years ago... To a fault.
Bottom line is that they did well with bringing in some good content providers- getting great results for hockey all year- in favor of many terrible "in-house" personalities. It's less about yahoo-branded content and more of an aggregated list of stories you might like. Unfortunately much is just click bait garbage with a terrible user experience optimized for ad revenue. There are often very offensive articles from yahoo's "reporters" that make lite of human tragedy or just attack people in a very mean spirited way- TMZ has higher standards. These changes started soon after Meyer started so I put it all on her, but I keep coming back so it's not all bad.
Funny note, I've been using the username "elpresidentedechimichanga" for nearly 20 years. With all their auth changes over the years, it still works. On a not so funny note, yahoo's comment section is one of the dankest recesses of human expression. I would have cleaned this shit up first thing if I was CEO.