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I use Yahoo all the time. Here are my complaints (which many yahoo users always complain about in the comment section): -No consistency across sites -They cen

I use Yahoo all the time. Here are my complaints (which many yahoo users always complain about in the comment section): -No consistency across sites -They censor a lot of the comments -The comment system never works right -The comment system constantly switches from facebook comments to yahoo comments. -A lot of the services don't work right (like retrieving portfolio data). Sometime it works, other times it does not. -They are really heavy on the ads -They need a better video player. They are testing a new one...not sure if it is good or not. The old one uses a lot cpu 60%. -The search sucks -Too much Kardasians/Jersey Shore crap. They need better quality/fresh content. -The Ymail needs catch up to Gmail/Hotmail. I mean no SSL when accessing mail?

chao- 14y ago
Genuinely curious what keeps you in Y! Mail over GMail. Is it the history of your messages, the familiarity of the system, or something else entirely? The last time I looked at Yahoo's mail, you had to pay to enable IMAP access. Even stranger, it wasn't a recurring fee, but just some one-time deal. Seems to have changed now, at least?
- velodrome 14y ago
  Not all eggs in one basket, etc.
- vorg 14y ago
  I use a 15-yr old yahoo email account. They got me first, no I've never switched over. I always use Google for search, even in China where it sometimes plays up. Google got me first (after Altavista folded). There's some of us who don't switch due to inertia, which are the types of customers many businesses, e.g. banks, make most of their money from.
Bill_Dimm 14y ago
I'll add some comments on their finance section: 1) REALLY need a way to graph "adjusted stock price" or "growth of $10,000" instead of just raw stock price. Otherwise, mutual fund graphs fall off a cliff every December due to payment of capital gains distributions and dividends (the drop is not economically meaningful and it makes it hard to compare to an index or other security). If you look at their "Historic Prices" page they have the data (called "Adj Close"), they just don't give you a way to graph it. 2) Since they started displaying real-time auto-updating stock prices recently, the percent change and dollar change are often out of sync (at least in my browser, Seamonkey). Sometimes, one is negative while the other is positive, so it's pretty obvious. I'm surprised the exchanges haven't slapped them silly for this (I believe you have to register with the exchanges if you are going to display their data to ensure that are competent enough to not display bad prices).

chao- 14y ago

Genuinely curious what keeps you in Y! Mail over GMail. Is it the history of your messages, the familiarity of the system, or something else entirely? The last time I looked at Yahoo's mail, you had to pay to enable IMAP access. Even stranger, it wasn't a recurring fee, but just some one-time deal. Seems to have changed now, at least?

velodrome 14y ago
Not all eggs in one basket, etc.
vorg 14y ago
I use a 15-yr old yahoo email account. They got me first, no I've never switched over. I always use Google for search, even in China where it sometimes plays up. Google got me first (after Altavista folded). There's some of us who don't switch due to inertia, which are the types of customers many businesses, e.g. banks, make most of their money from.

Bill_Dimm 14y ago

I'll add some comments on their finance section: 1) REALLY need a way to graph "adjusted stock price" or "growth of $10,000" instead of just raw stock price. Otherwise, mutual fund graphs fall off a cliff every December due to payment of capital gains distributions and dividends (the drop is not economically meaningful and it makes it hard to compare to an index or other security). If you look at their "Historic Prices" page they have the data (called "Adj Close"), they just don't give you a way to graph it. 2) Since they started displaying real-time auto-updating stock prices recently, the percent change and dollar change are often out of sync (at least in my browser, Seamonkey). Sometimes, one is negative while the other is positive, so it's pretty obvious. I'm surprised the exchanges haven't slapped them silly for this (I believe you have to register with the exchanges if you are going to display their data to ensure that are competent enough to not display bad prices).