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I think Yahoo is trying to put themselves out of business

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by leroy, Oct 11, 2013.

  1. Illegal Machine

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    http://gizmodo.com/the-new-yahoo-mail-could-not-look-more-like-gmail-1442430816
     
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    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    That platform is crap, there's better options. Thus favor being done.
     
  3. TexasTofu

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    Whats the best way to go about changing my yahoo email to me a gmail account? Is there a way to forward my email without paying money or or soemthing like that?
     
  4. moose

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    I hate the new Sports interface. Box Scores are almost impossible to read.
     
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    I use the Canada version to look at box scores. Hopefully it'll stay that way.

    http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/scoreboard
     
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  6. KellyDwyer

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    Why do 99 percent of the complaints about me come from people with terrible grammar and punctuation?
     
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    I would still like totally bang Marissa Mayer... like totally...
     
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    why do u care
     
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  10. leroy

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    There is a function to forward your email from yahoo to wherever you want. I just spent the last 2 hours setting up my new Outlook.com email and my.msn page. Because you have to pay for Yahoo Mail Plus, you can't merge them...but you can simply have the mail forwarded. That's what I'm doing until I have no more use for yahoo. I also had to move my yahoo contacts to a csv file, import them into gmail...then import them into Outlook.
     
  11. DCkid

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    I hear you. My favorite change is how they now force the weather on the my.yahoo home page to be entirely based on your IP address. You cannot configure a default location to always display. I work at a big company where the network is routed all over the country. So sometimes I will see the weather for Sunnyvale, California...other times New York/New Jersey. Basically anywhere but where I actually live. Hard to comprehend how a company like Yahoo would not be aware of this.

    Other complaints on my yahoo.
    - Can no longer limit sports scoreboard to only the teams you care about. Yeah, it puts my teams at the top, but then I have a whole bunch of other screen real estate being taken up by games I care nothing about.

    - Removed the Fantasy Sports widget.

    - Text size is un-configurable and HUGE. Can only assume they were targeting grandparents.

    It's really a shame, because it has been my personal homepage since I was in college. Unfortunately, there's not many other customizable home pages that are as configurable as "my yahoo" even in its new, crappy state. Most other customized homepages are simply RSS readers with maybe a weather widget. You can try Netvibes, but the lack of a scoreboard widget make it any many others a non-starter for me.
     
  12. dsnow23

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    I like the my.yahoo page. Their email is terrible. But, the web version of their email is better than google's. That said. I just use Gmail in Outlook and it works great. I don't understand why people continue to use any kind of webmail in a world where Outlook exists.
     
  13. Kam

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    I did an entire draft with the app. It was a pain in the ass. but it wasn't too bad.
     
  14. Jontro

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    I haven't used yahoo since I discovered google in the early 2000s. Searching pr0ns was more efficient.
     
  15. Rocket River

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    the android app for email is sometimey
    and does not do will with multiple accounts

    email was hacked and lost everything but . .hell it happens.

    overall it has been ok

    Rocket River
     
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    I use my original, default My Yahoo! . I like it better than the new format. However, when I'm on my iPhone, I used to be able to bypass the mobile site and go to the desktop version of my default My Yahoo!. Unless I missed it, I don't see how I can do that any more since the most recent overhaul of the mobile site. That really irks me.
     
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    Name one business that has been gradually swamped by the cronism Indians that did not go south.

    Yahoo, Citibank, Cisco, Motorola,ebay........

    Google and Facebook are next.
     
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    Can you please explain what this is, and the phenomenon you mentioned in your post? :confused: I'm unaware of such thing.
     
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    Didn't find her attractive in the past but that Magneto outfit she's wearing is hitting the spot. I love Magneto.
     
  20. leroy

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    I made the switch to my.msn.com today. Reminds me a lot of my.yahoo before the changes. Only issues I have is that their scoreboard doesn't include FCS scores (no SHSU football scores for me), and I still don't have the fantasy widget.

    I just don't understand what Yahoo is trying to accomplish other than to piss off as many people as possible. Did someone in the design phase say that no one would miss the fantasy widget, the ability to configure the scoreboard and the weather widgets to what the user wanted? These are simple and expected things that they just tossed out with the bathwater. Along with it, they change the layout of just about everything within the site to something that's generally unreadable and completely change mail without any warning or opportunity to keep what you had.

    I don't get what they're trying to do if it's something other than pissing off as many people as possible.
     

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