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The aged old problem of change: there are always people who are against it. Change is what Yahoo! needs, if some people can't handle it then maybe they should m

The aged old problem of change: there are always people who are against it. Change is what Yahoo! needs, if some people can't handle it then maybe they should move on.

CamperBob2 13y ago
Except they 'fixed' stuff that wasn't broken, like Groups.
- Aloha 13y ago
  Yes, indeed.
- aidenn0 13y ago
  and sports. top center for each team page used to be the most current game with direct links to box-score and recap/preview. below that was news with stats and division standings in a sidebar. everything I wanted on one page. Now it's split into multiple pages that aren't well interlinked. only thing I can think of is they get more money with more pageviews
  - CamperBob2 13y ago
    Sounds plausible. By far the plurality of complaints on that page have to do with the loss of customizability. It's as if Yahoo desperately wants people to flip through several pages of unrequested information from sports scores to stock quotes, where one custom page would have sufficed before. This also ties in with the overall industry trend of using more pixels -- in the form of unnecessary whitespace and large fonts that, again, can't be customized by the user -- to display less information. Once again, the company gets more ad revenue as users struggle to access content that was previously displayed in a more compact format. These days, beleaguered behemoths like Yahoo and Microsoft focus their business strategies on their wants and needs rather than those of their users. Obviously, this kind of abuse will only work until they're replaced by more customer-centric organizations.
- dchest 13y ago
  Groups? It had the horrible, horrible interface! And it didn't work properly with different encodings.
calinet6 13y ago
It just sucks that Yahoo's market was basically People Who Don't Like Change.
- jmspring 13y ago
  This may be lost here, as most of us aren't yahoo's traditional market. Yes, I have an address and it even has early emails with my wife. That was years ago. I've already heard from one family member about changed, an aunt, not going to be fun doing family tech support.
michaelpinto 13y ago
Change is just fine — but the inability to port your extra tabs (which may represent the majority of your feeds) is technical incompetence! You wouldn't upgrade your email if the transfer ate half your old emails.

The aged old problem of change: there are always people who are against it. Change is what Yahoo! needs, if some people can't handle it then maybe they should move on.

CamperBob2 13y ago

Except they 'fixed' stuff that wasn't broken, like Groups.

Aloha 13y ago
Yes, indeed.
aidenn0 13y ago
and sports. top center for each team page used to be the most current game with direct links to box-score and recap/preview. below that was news with stats and division standings in a sidebar. everything I wanted on one page. Now it's split into multiple pages that aren't well interlinked. only thing I can think of is they get more money with more pageviews
- CamperBob2 13y ago
  Sounds plausible. By far the plurality of complaints on that page have to do with the loss of customizability. It's as if Yahoo desperately wants people to flip through several pages of unrequested information from sports scores to stock quotes, where one custom page would have sufficed before. This also ties in with the overall industry trend of using more pixels -- in the form of unnecessary whitespace and large fonts that, again, can't be customized by the user -- to display less information. Once again, the company gets more ad revenue as users struggle to access content that was previously displayed in a more compact format. These days, beleaguered behemoths like Yahoo and Microsoft focus their business strategies on their wants and needs rather than those of their users. Obviously, this kind of abuse will only work until they're replaced by more customer-centric organizations.
dchest 13y ago
Groups? It had the horrible, horrible interface! And it didn't work properly with different encodings.

calinet6 13y ago

It just sucks that Yahoo's market was basically People Who Don't Like Change.

jmspring 13y ago
This may be lost here, as most of us aren't yahoo's traditional market. Yes, I have an address and it even has early emails with my wife. That was years ago. I've already heard from one family member about changed, an aunt, not going to be fun doing family tech support.

michaelpinto 13y ago

Change is just fine — but the inability to port your extra tabs (which may represent the majority of your feeds) is technical incompetence! You wouldn't upgrade your email if the transfer ate half your old emails.