I think Yahoo is trying to put themselves out of business

I primarily use Yahoo's default home page.

I agree with you about Yahoo. 90% of improvements they've done have been terrible.

 

Kind of a side rant but since Marissa Mayer's arrival Yahoo has been going down the crapper. I work for a very large tech company and y! traditionally buys from us...since she's come over yahoo CAPEX has been slowed, forecasted purchases have been delayed and she starts telling people to come into the office instead of telecommuting.

My company lets us work from home whenever, and her "change of pace" at y! has made our CEO question whether or not we need to come into the office more. Way to screw things up lady!

Oh yeah...then I saw this article from two days ago:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-09/yahoo-s-marissa-mayer-it-s-totally-okay-to-fail

And I concur- fantasy football app sucks.

 

iGoogle says "Hi!".

 

I like their new look for e-mail, and I prefer their fantasy basketball to ESPN.

However, I definitely don't like the way sports.yahoo.com looks now.

 

Still love their email layout. I've had my Yahoo email for over a decade and have no complaints. Tried Gmail, but I just like Yahoo better.

Their FF app is a joke. Gets worse every year. Only think I use the phone app for is to track points during the games. Can you even do any transactions on that thing?

 

If Yahoo is driving you away from their platform they're doing you a favor. I've heard nothing but good things about that CEO. Yahoo is bigger than that interface you're referencing, their hands are in all kinds of pots.

 

I've had Yahoo! email since 1996. I used to have my.yahoo.com as my main page for about 10 years and then it just was too much. I understand your pain, but I'll continue to use Yahoo! email alone, not the my.yahoo page at all. I had all my sports news on there, but now I don't remember what I'm missing. I used to use it as my main page for all that stuff together.

I also played Fantasy Football since the 90s, when they were only doing TEXT. Now it fails a lot... I thought I had changed someone whom later I found had 20+ points on the bench, because the app said "Switched players" but then I realized it didn't. I should have double checked.

I'll give it another try and come back to report what is up.

 

I've never been a Yahoo user, other than when creating a "throw away" email. But the Fantasy Football leauge I play in every year switched from CBS to Yahoo this season, and I HATE it. Not at all intuitive, and the only wasy to describe the app is to say that it sucks.

 

Really? I've never had it fail and I've been using it the past 3 years I believe. Android.

Sure you're not trying to pick up a player off waivers and getting beaten to the punch by GMs with a higher waiver priority than you?

 

I thought it was just my computer that was having problems with their sports page. There are constant freezing issues and they have the blurred stadiums in the background that play tricks on your eyes (or mine at least). The most frustrating part was when they posted a note on the fantasy pages that they were open to suggestions but absolutely wouldn't consider going back to the old format.

This is what happens when you have a premier product and mess with it just for the sake of change. They could cut their losses and go back to the old format, but they won't.

 

Marissa Mayer is a one woman wrecking crew. She spent a billion dollars on tumblr and will soon wreck that platform with ads (tumblr was largely for adult content anyway and Yahoo! will get rid of much of that).

The new sports page layout is borderline unreadable.

Yahoo! remained popular because it's a familiar interface. If they start changing things, that advantage goes away.

 

I still use yahoo finance exclusively. I like yahoo sports, also, although all that color on their new format is painful. I liked them because they used to be simple from a layout point of view.

 

Google needs to buy out Yahoo Finance and call it a day.

 

i associate anything yahoo with spam. Their Journalism is the worse I've ever seen. Just look at Kelly Dwyer, he posts here and writes articles for them

 

Yep. I guess I might as well make the BBS my home page since it's always my first stop anyway.