Yahoo recently revamped it’s net based email, and I find it’s slower to load and more tempermental.
It also looks like they have monkeyed with their main portal and other sites. More ads, slower to load.
Anyone else notice these changes?
Huh? Oh… sorry… I was still dreaming about your thread title.
Starting?
They just revamped their news pages to have the “3 hrs. ago” like Google. Now all the sidebar links are page dep. so there’s no consistent highlighting of visited links across pages.
They also are running ads with sound. Hey idjits: You do not have permission to play sounds on my computer, ever.
Goodbye Yahoo news. Hello Google news.
I like how the Yahoo contacts/calendar/notes/tasks synchs up well with Outlook if you download the synch app. Does any other free service have that function?
Hell yes Yahore—er, I mean Yahell…(dammit)…YAHOO is starting to suck. I’m especially referring to the messenger portion of it. It seem that instead of improving with every successive update they’ve actually managed to make it just that much more crappier. Chat rooms are constantly full (this wasn’t a problem before), the ads sometimes become so tremendous in size so as to obscure the actual chat window portion (corrective “progs” notwithstanding), and also the other problems that the OP has rightly mentioned. I’m not a fan of the increasing pop-up window problems as well, at the risk of sounding redundant.
You can use Trillian for Yahoo!, AIM and MSN messaging, and skin it as you choose.
I like the new Yahoo! interface. The drop-down menus even degrade nicely in Opera 6. I haven’t noticed any speed problems, but I have noticed on a couple of days that their servers seem to be suffering – I’m not assuming it’s a problem with the revamped UI as it works just fine most of the time.
Let me echo ftg.
First they reorganized the front page so that they had more room for advertisements.
When they started adding the audio/video overlayer commercials on their front page, that was the last straw for me.
With a 56k modem, it takes likely an extra minute to download the animation, and another minute to watch it (don’t even try to use the page during that time - it’s just an exercise in frustration). That’s not the level of convenience I expect from the web.
Oh - once I opened three links from a YAHOO search page, and each new page (still in YAHOO) included the same layer animation. Soon all three were playing simultaneously, so I got a cool echo effect 
.
They’re magazine just ceased to exist too. Yahoo Internet Life, which I subscribed to(had to buy something from my neices school) was pretty good, until I got the card yesterday saying they’re out of business. Too bad.
They started to suck the minute they started charging $200 ($600 for adult sites) to even have your link reviewed, without promise of inclusion.
Google is far and above the best place to type in your queries, but if you really want a directory, try www.dmoz.org - the open source, comercial free (read: better) yahoo.
Yahoo! uses Google results too, and Google uses DMOZ results in its directory service.
Although YIL was a wonderful magazine, Yahoo didn’t own it. They had a licensing deal with Ziff-Davis to use their name.
I still like Yahoo. But Google’s web-spanning newsbots are cool, too.
They charge for that? Yoyza.
That’d be a sweet job though… $600 to look at a porn site. Heh.
The Google version isn’t always as up-to-date. Granted, with a project this large, you aren’t likely to miss much by looking through a slightly older version, but for the best results, go straight to the source.
True, very true.
A bit off-topic, but I noticed that Yahoo! Maps has added the generally irrelevant feature of providing arrows with each stage of your trip (ex: Turn Left is accompanied by an arrow that shows a left turn). Maybe helpful to distinguish turns from merges/bears/etc. but still a bit unnecessary.
I’ve also had recent problems in Yahoo! Mail with the buttons. Sometimes, none of the buttons will work, and I have to re-enter my Inbox and then re-enter the specific mail in order to, say, delete it. This happens to me at least one time each session. Anybody else have this problem, or might this be hardware related?
Yahoo! mail has gotten a little flaky, but it’s been better the last week. There is one thing that is vastly improved - you can empty your spam inbox without opening it. Saves tons of time for me.
Yeah, but it doesn’t automatically purge your Bulk Mail folder contents after a certain amount of time. Even Hotmail has the good sense to provide this feature.
Boy, you took the word right out of my mouth. And if any of you ever use Y! chat (oh god, I’m such a geek :D), those ads they have on beta are so frickin’ annoying. Sometimes they take up the whole damn screen. I can’t even read what the hell is going on… which is usually nothing more than those porno spam bots anyway (another reason why Y! sucks), but still! It’s the principle!