Comments on: A Categorical Change

By: Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team

Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:00:51 +0000

Hey PJ,

We’re sorry to hear you’re having this frustration but we’re pretty sure you can amend this.

If you go to the US Front Page and are re-directed back to the UK Front Page, you can click on a link below the purple Yahoo! logo on the top left hand side.

The link you need is this one:

US Yahoo Front Page

It should fix you homepage as the US one.

Hope this helps.

– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team

By: PJ

PJ — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:52:55 +0000

I have had Yahoo as my home page for over 10 years and now I’ve finally had enough. I am totally pissed off.

I am an American working in Europe, but I can no longer navigate to the US Yahoo home page. You keep redirecting to the local region. If that’s what I wanted – guess what, l would have put that in the URL. You guys are really loosing the plot overriding the users preference.

If I type http://www.yahoo.com I expect to see the US home page – as it always was or even us.yahoo.com is ok, and uk.yahoo.com as it was before.

If your going to screw around with it at least give me a choice to set my preferred locale.. When I go out the the France next week – will Yahoo be available in English?

Get with it you muppets

Oh – and finally – since there is NOWHERE on any yahoo site to provide feedback I have had to vent here. Sorry. Maybe you’d pass it on.

PS Yahoo is no longer my home page.

By: Christina Nsiah

Christina Nsiah — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:37:39 +0000

I like the new look but I have to say it could still do with some tweaks. Well done not easy to change things and satisfy especially those that were used to the old style and had come to like it.

By: Wamibo

Wamibo — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:59:59 +0000

I am not too bothered about the changes, but one thing that I think needs to be improved is this not stating on questions about “law” or “politics” what country the person asking the question is from. This seems only to be advised some considerable time later by when somebody asking about an employment discipline query in the UK (say) has been given confusing information by those answering being from the USA and thinking he is asking about employment there, where laws and standards are different from the UK. On other catagories like medical questions the issue is the same everywhere so what country the questioner is from does not matter.

By: Peg-Leg

Peg-Leg — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:00:53 +0000

OK, you have really messed up this time. Why fix a design that worked?

Yeah, it had glitches but at least it was readable.

When you go to the oldest questions through to the early questions, you can sometimwe skip from a question posted five days ago to a question posted five minutes ago. What is going on?

By: p bradshaw

p bradshaw — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:24:01 +0000

You should leave wellalone. The original page design was fine. This one is lousy. Please change back.
Also why has a comma appeared at the end of all my Contacts e-mail addresses. They won’t go through with this and I have to type all e-mail addresses in now. This happened the same day as you changed the home page!!!

By: second time around

second time around — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:15:50 +0000

Hi Y!AT

I do like this new page layout though it did take some getting used to, leaning to the left when looking at the questions.

And I like the fact that the categories lists are at the top now, the ‘most popular’ is a good idea as well…and I discovered the ‘Sticky Tabs’ for open. resolved and voting questions the other day when I was voting, that is definitely a welcome addition it was annoying having to always open the tab again.

But one tiny thing I will say, I don’t really like the leaderboards in a big box on the right (it kind of adds to the gaming aspect)

But overall Y!ATs you have a done a good job. Well done

By: eziekiel

eziekiel — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:29 +0000

I agree with all the people who say that this version is lousy. It is inconvenient and awkward, and there was nothing wrong with the old version.

By: Nelly

Nelly — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:56:57 +0000

Why can we not have a choice which design we use? Old or new? It seems its kind of 2 parts, people liking it and hating it.. and I’m one of the haters definitely!

By: hellsbells

hellsbells — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:59:03 +0000

Where is the page you had on the 19th – by the way – you are back on line again. (no change so far. – started getting the warning you are due to close (better late than never – did some say)