I think Yahoo is trying to put themselves out of business

Probably because it's doesn't take an English major to like or dislike someone's opinion.

 

I'm finding the email changes horrible and UI horrible. I may start forwarding to my gmail account. What a pain.

 

Easy there, Holovak, might be a little more to that top five global web portal than your drafts.

 

Yahoo Finance is still top notch. They've improved a lot in recent years with their daily video features.

 

I don't use the fantasy app, but do people really find the fantasy changes horrible? The fantasy medals, weekly recaps and live projections are pretty cool, if you ask me.

 

Finance, sports, mail, that's all it's good for, but it's not going to take it back to the glory days, so they have to change. To get away from the hand that feed you, you need to maul it.

But that's also the problem with large swath of corporate America stuck in neutral. Like the old Playstation/FFVII commercial: "If you succeed, you'll save Yahoo!, and if you fail, there's always the golden parachute."

 

what they did to flickr was a crime against humanity.

r.i.p

 

Before 2010:

Companies ruined or almost ruined by foreign labor

Adaptec - Indian CEO Subramanian Sundaresh fired.
AIG (signed outsourcing deal in 2007 in Europe with Accenture Indian frauds, collapsed in 2009)
AirBus (Qantas plane plunged 650 feet injuring passengers when its computer system written by India disengaged the auto-pilot).
Apple - R&D CLOSED in India in 2006.
Apple - Foreign guest worker "Helen" Hung Ma caused the disastrous MobileMe product rollout.
Australia's National Australia Bank (Outsourced jobs to India in 2007, nationwide ATM and account failure in late 2010).
Bell Labs (Arun Netravalli took over, closed, turned into a shopping mall)
Boeing Dreamliner ES software (written by HCL, banned by FAA)
Bristol-Myers-Squibb (Trade Secrets and documents stolen in U.S. by Indian national guest worker)
Caymas - Startup run by Indian CEO, French director of dev, Chinese tech lead. Closed after 5 years of sucking VC out of America.
ComAir crew system run by 100% Indian IT workers caused the 12/25/05 U.S. airport shutdown when they used a short int instead of a long int
Dell - call center (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Delta call centers (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Fannie Mae- Hired large numbers of Indians, had to be bailed out. Indian logic bomb creator found guilty.
GM - Was booming in 2006, signed $300 million outsourcing deal with Wipro that same year, went bankrupt 3 years later
HSBC ATMs (software taken over by Indians, failed in 2006)
Intel Whitefield processor project (cancelled, Indian staff canned)
Lehman (Spectramind software bought by Wipro, ruined, trashed by Indian programmers)
Microsoft - Employs over 35,000 H-1Bs. Stock used to be $100. Today it's lucky to be over $25. Not to mention that Vista thing.
Microsoft - Lian Yang, Microsoft-Contracted Engineer, Arrested in Smuggling Plot After Another FBI Sting in Portland in 2010
MIT Media Lab Asia (canceled)
PeopleSoft (Taken over by Indians in 2000, collapsed).
Qantas - See AirBus above
Quark (Alukah Kamar CEO, fired, lost 60% of its customers to Adobe because Indian-written QuarkExpress 6 was a failure)
Rolls Royce (Sent aircraft engine work to India in 2006, engines delayed for Boeing 787, and failed on at least 2 Quantas planes in 2010, cost Rolls $500m).
Skype (Madhu Yarlagadda fired)
State of Indiana $867 billion FAILED IBM project, IBM being sued
State of Texas failed IBM project.
Sun Micro (Taken over by Indian and Chinese workers in 2001, collapsed, has to be sold off to Oracle).
United - call center (closed in India because Premji's conmen don't even know how to use telephones, let alone computers)
Virgin Atlantic (software written in India caused cloud IT failure)
World Bank (Indian fraudsters BANNED for 3 years because they stole data).

 

this is why people don't like changes!!!

if you're going to change something, make it subtle.

 

The new yahoo sports is ****ing horrible. I hate the espn site too. I have no clue why yahoo changed it up.

 

This post is a metric ton of crazy.

 

I met the mistake of visiting yahoo message board/discussion once.

Lord have mercy on me and my sanity.

That place is a disaster.

 

thank god im not the only one. they changed their email AGAIN and it's fn terrible.

 

Scrutinizing a post on a BBS speaks volumes about your journalism and what you typically focus on. Your articles are horse-something-something-something and give people the impression that you write nonsensical crap because yahoo needs a couple more hits on their declining site. I hope you take this to heart and cover at least basketball a bit better.

 

the fantasy medals and the weekly recaps were there last year, the only new thing they did this year was the live projections, at first the background looked too dark, but Im already used too that.

I agree, why changing the email, if its working great, I have had an email account since 99, and I still use it, but it sucks now.

 

Is there anything specific you're referring to?

 

Kelly, it's been a minute since I've read any of your articles, so I thought I'd take a look at some of your recent work to determine if the original poster had a point. I'm sorry to inform you of this, but he kinda does.

The thing that jumps out at me when I read the last three articles on Ball Don't Lie, is the weak overall leads. Take this quote, for example:

It seems to me that what you are attempting to accomplish with this article is to chronicle the progress and strange trip of Anthony Bennett, a fine goal, but you go about it in a jumbled sort of way. If I were going to takle it I'd put my main point in the first sentence and go from there:

Don't be surprised if Cleveland Cavaliers rookie--and #1 overall draft selection--Anthony Bennett doesn't wow you right out of the gate. While prognosticators and observers might point to a slow start, the Caves, who selected Bennett with their first overall choice in last June's draft, knew the UNLV standout would be a work in progress. Bennett, who had surgery to repair a torn left rotator cuff in May, used measurables rather than immediate contributions, a blend of touch and rebounding acumen, to justify the caves selection, in what is considered, by all accounts, a weak 2013 draft class. A recent 2-12 with 10 boards debut, by a number 1 overall pick, might, in other years, be pause for concern, but both Bennett and the Caves, seem to be fine with it. For now.

 

The new Yahoo Sports format is terrible. People on this bbs trying to give KD writing advice is also terrible.

 

On yahoo mail, I chose the option to keep the default theme. Next time I logged in, the whole page was dark blue

 

the only thing that's terrible is your tin ear.

every sentence I wrote was better than any of his sentences.