Testing, testing…a new Yahoo.com

Posted September 17th, 2008 at 9:00 pm by Tapan Bhat, Integrated Consumer Experiences

 1,206 Comments / Filed in: Behind the Scenes, Trends & News

Ever since Jerry and David began categorizing the Web back in 1994, people have visited our homepage to find out what’s happening. That’s 100 million of you in the US and 314 million of you globally starting your day on a Yahoo! homepage, so we must be doing something right. But we’re not resting on our laurels…

We know your life has changed since 1994. Most of us have upgraded from big hair, flannel shirts and Nirvana, much as Yahoo.com has evolved over the years. Today we are challenged with keeping track of everything going on in our lives, in the news, with our family and friends, etc. The Web has evolved to keep us in constant communication, but this also means we are continually receiving emails, text messages, RSS feeds, tweets and IMs. Keeping up can be a struggle.

We’re working on a new homepage that will help you get more out of the Internet, make more of your precious time, and make sense of all the things going on in your world. After lots of ongoing research (i.e., focus groups, usability experiments, etc.), today we’ve begun testing an all-new, more streamlined Yahoo.com that will bring the things that matter most to you –- no matter where they “live” on the Web. Here’s a screenshot of one of the versions we’ll be testing:

Here’s how the new Yahoo.com should simplify your life:

1. One easy check-in point. We’re testing a dashboard area (off to the left) that will let you add previews of your favorite Yahoo! and non-Yahoo! services – starting with checking for new mail from multiple accounts (initially Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and Gmail, with more to come), weather forecasts, and local events. We plan to add plenty more preview applications in the future, so that you don’t have to spend as much time jumping from site to site just to stay plugged in.
2. Helping you stay informed. We’re always hearing how much people love the “Featured” area of the page, so we’re going to keep enhancing that with more and more fresh, timely content you’re interested in from across the Web. And of course we still have the prominent search box, with Yahoo! Search’s handy “Search Assist” feature. As we continue evolving the test versions, you’ll also notice us adding more information about what your friends are doing across Yahoo! and the Web in general.

What does all this mean to you? Since we’re testing with a fraction of homepage visitors chosen at random – starting in the US, UK, France and India – you may be one of the testers! But even if you’re not, we encourage you to share your thoughts on what you want out of your Internet starting point. Keep in mind that we plan to add lots of exciting new things over the course of these tests, since this process is all about making sure we launch the best page for our users.

We’ll keep you posted as we add new preview applications from your favorite Web sites, create more ways to easily personalize the page so that it’s focused on what matters most to you, and eventually even open it up to the Yahoo! Application Platform so that external developers and publishers can submit their own preview applications to be featured on the Yahoo! homepage.

Tapan Bhat
SVP, Front Doors, Communities and Network Services

P.S. Check out this screenshot for a sneak peek into more features we’ll be adding during the testing process.
P.P.S. Did you notice the color of the logo on our test?

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walter | September 18th, 2008 at 1:15 am

This looks good.

Does it work quickly though? I’m still using Y!Mail Classic because I didn’t like how slow the new mail ran over a wireless connection. Too much AJAX maybe.

Good times.
Go Yahoo!

saurav_rani | September 18th, 2008 at 5:20 am

i cant see this. how do i see this

GuillaumeB | September 18th, 2008 at 6:13 am

Why oh why do you guys have to retain such a big graphic ad? Seriosuly, it does not make any money at all on the long run, it just contributes to lessen the number of visitors … and potential users…
Why on earth do you still remain blind in front of this fact?

Mercy | September 18th, 2008 at 6:19 am

Looks better than the present one. Lets wait n watch the new game.
:)

Jeff | September 18th, 2008 at 7:02 am

I like it. I want it. Hurry up and roll it out please. I love the concept of the customized left side. It brings a happy medium between having to customize a full page (like the “My Yahoo”, “iGoogle”, “NetVibes” concepts) and a non-customizable page like we currently have.

I would have loved to see it offered to my account today.

Casey Andrews | September 18th, 2008 at 7:17 am

I definitely want to try this out. Is there no where to sign up for the beta ?

mani | September 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am

I like the layout but again a HUGE ad on the right :(
similar HUGE ads are being placed on yahoo mail beta too
its such a distraction at time, but still I’m kinda excited about the improvements around :)

Mike Rundle | September 18th, 2008 at 8:49 am

“Why oh why do you guys have to retain such a big graphic ad? Seriosuly, it does not make any money at all on the long run”

HAHA are you serious. You’ve got to be pulling our legs here. A big graphic ad on Yahoo!’s homepage doesn’t make any money at all in the long run??!!?! If you believe that then I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.

New homepage looks hot, very good job. Sidebar is very nicely put together.

brent | September 18th, 2008 at 9:13 am

I agree on the ad space. Yahoo forced me to update on the last minor my yahoo update after I tried not to update. I think there is a more effective balance on ad space.

Seems like msnbc has gone a bit wider to mitigate the screen impact of their ads and provide better screen utilization.

23″ widescreen user, fwiw.

kamla bhatt | September 18th, 2008 at 10:12 am

The new homepage looks really nice. Like GuillaumeB wonderig if the ad size can be reduced and instead have more content showing?

Kamla

pepito | September 18th, 2008 at 11:28 am

yehey.com! i can’t wait to try my gmail account there! :P

Tapan Bhat | September 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

Thanks to all for your comments and feedback. Let me address a few questions that have come up:

@Walter – One of the things we test for is speed. We’re very focused on ensuring we can roll out a high-performance page.

@GuillaumeB – While not everyone loves advertising, we are an ad-supported network. The ad module is actually the same size as the one we have on our homepage now — it may look larger in the new layout. Also, I thought I’d add that with that same sized ad, we’ve seen our number of unique visitors increasing over the past two years and are finding that those users are spending more time on the site.

@Casey Andrews – We’re just starting our “bucket testing” phase, which means we randomly choose users to see how they respond to the site. We plan to continue this testing for the next several months, depending on the feedback we get. Once we hit beta, we’ll be sure to let Yodel Anecdotal readers know so you can all play around with it.

Jon | September 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

I would love to see more visibility to lesser-known Yahoo sites. I have to dig around to find Mybloglog, Upcoming, Jumpcut, Delicious and Flickr on the old homepage.

Most of my friends have never heard of these sites and/or don’t know that Yahoo owns them.

Thanks
Jon

GuillaumeB | September 18th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Since the integration of modules would make Yahoo.com a customizable page, could you be a little more specific on how it would differ from My Yahoo! ?

My fear is that you fall into the redundant peanut butter again (bookmarks/delicious, photos/flickr,360/Mash…)

In all honesty, even though I do like Yahoo very much and have been following this company for many years, i do not understand why such a powerful network can not provide an adless homepage like small start ups like Netvibes.

I do understand that your network is ad-supported but i would trade this big ad against two small ones. For example one in the dashboard : what about a default module in the middle,here it would be placed between Stocks and Weather for example, titled something like”new car promotions” and clicking on it would Ajaxly expand a window gathering one or two ad for Audi and Lexus?) and then another small one below the Services section.

From a user point of view, I’m thinking usability not CPM…But then again, you’re asking for our advice :)

jess | September 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Will Yahoo Answers be added to the homepage? I love that option. I know that real people can give me real answers.

Jen | September 18th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

omg iam so excited for the new homepage cant wait till we get it it looks amazing so fresh and clean i hope with yahoo mail we can still use the yahoo mail classic and switch back and forth anytime because i love the classic version if not thats okay

Jen | September 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

i would love to see you guys keep yahoo groups and yahoo movies and yahoo tv and more stationery in yahoo mail classic version

=bg= | September 18th, 2008 at 4:26 pm

Tapan, I have been in ‘the bucket’ before. Put me in this one, too. Really want to play with this.

FP Lover | September 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

I really really like it. Can I *please* be in these buckets?

=bg= | September 19th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Tapan, I WANT MY NEW YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Jen | September 19th, 2008 at 3:05 pm

yes please put me in the bucket too i love it also like jess said please keep yahoo answers and yahoo food and yahoo games too

Jen | September 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

one more thing add color options and themes for the new yahoo homepage and users yahoo mail accounts that would be way cool

=bg= | September 20th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

PS—still no new Yahoo! front door; but my Yahoo! News sure looks different. What’s the story there?

Jen | September 20th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

please keep yahoo shine and yahoo avatars and yahoo message boards and yahoo sports thanx

Jen | September 20th, 2008 at 11:23 pm

keep decorating the yahoo logo for holidays and keep my yahoo and yahoo weather

Q | September 21st, 2008 at 3:41 am

I love it! The ad is a little huge, but other than that, I WANT IT!!!! Select me at random so I can test it out!!!

Paul | September 21st, 2008 at 9:33 am

Sounds good. When you’re reading to start testing, I’ll volunteer to try it out. Better to be asked – like here – than to have it rammed down your throat, like at one of your competitors.

Tom | September 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm

How will this affect MyYahoo personalizations?

=bg= | September 23rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Tapan….you’re killin’ me here. Waiting..waiting….

sudhakar mishra | September 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

yahoo for everything

Jen | September 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am

please keep yahoo video and keep up the good i so want my new yahooooooooooooooo homepage im so excited cannot wait
#1 yahoo fan since 2000

dor | September 25th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

I agree with Jen

russians-girls | September 25th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

i think is good!!!Very good!!!

=bg= | September 27th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

Guess I was in a bucket (briefly) for a new Yahoo News design…but now it’s gone. Jerry and David giveth..and they taketh away………

Jen | September 27th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

also please keep yahoo buzz up i love it and addicted to it thnx yahoo you guys rock

kesavan muthuvel | September 28th, 2008 at 11:07 am

waiting for all new yahoooooooo!

8-yr-old-yahooian!

Jen | September 28th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

please add yahoo broadway i love that alot it keep me updated on all the shows and news thanx

William Baerthlein | October 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am

This page sucks!!!!!!
A little warning would have been nice!!!!
How do I get rid of it?

atu | October 1st, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Howdo I get rid of this? Seriously, I will switch back to Google if i can not load, http://www.yahoo.com. PLEASE HELP!!

James | October 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 am

THIS SUCKS…
I did not volunteer to be part of any test grope
if they really want to do something to make yahoo better make it so I don’t have to click on inbox 7 times to check my mail
can someone please tell me how to get rid of this horrible home page and get back to what works

Glen W | October 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Unlike most of the above comments, I don’t like the new home page- at all. The mail feature is okay, but where do I find the myyahoo link? Or answers? I fail to see how the new page is any improvement over the old one. But since I am already out numbered I guess I am screwed with yahoo, just like facebook :(
I suggest making yahoo better and relevant again by improving the search engine.

Walt | October 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm

I find :

1. I don’t appreciate being randomly included in a test of the new homepage without prior contact

2. Setting the page up the way Yahoo has causes a user to pass through additional links prior to arriving at full pages previously direct-linked (such as email or weather). This leads to greater bandwidth use (for all those, like myself, who pay for bandwidth) and greater time requirements (my time is precious, and having to wade through unwanted mid-links is not at all acceptable).

Yahoo’s goal should be facilitating rapid and user-friendly access to resources, not complicating and slowing access by inserting glitzy mid-steps.

V/r,
Walt

John M. | October 3rd, 2008 at 5:23 pm

1. I should have been asked to test this YAHOO website.
2. Murray, the YAHOO rep. misunderstood the question I asked about why this PC is being a test site while my other 5 are not.
3. I also told Murray that I did not want the test website.
4. Lee, the next YAHOO rep. misunderstood that I do not want the “www.m.yahoo.com” I prefer the ORIGINAL WWW YAHOO.COM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John M.

Paul | October 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm

I want my old Yahoo! homepage back please. This new one… Stink-a-roo!
If someone can tell me how I can switch back, please I am begging you to tell us!
I don’t mind change but this is not good.

Dave | October 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm

Anyone know how to turn this off? I dont want to be apart of their test.
I didnt ask for it, and I dont like it.

The new homepage is really bad, and annoying. I dont care for it, and I dont like not being able to switch back. Checking your mail in a little tiny box sucks, while the ad takes up half your screen.

Micheline | October 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

I do NOT like this “new” front page…it takes me waaay to long to look everything up now, where I used to just hover over things to read quickly, now we have to “Click” on and wait til the page loads…
I do Not like to be “Used” to test anything without my approval first…that is just being insensitive to your clients…
If you want to upgrade something like a front page,etc…why don’t you ASK all of us what would work…THEN go from there…I mean we are the user’s after all…and then you would know what, and why, we like or don’t like something…very simple…and I’m with the other’s on her also about the BIG graphic ads…We DON’T like them taking up so much of the page…So…PLEASE give me back my Yahoo front page that I had 2 weeks ago…because I really, really do NOT like this new one at all…takes too long!!!
Thanks…

Brenda | October 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

I do not like the new home page. If I can’t find a way to get back to the version I had before, I will quit using yahoo. I have twice requested information on how to remove this terrible homepage, I do not appreciate being part of any test without my permission. So far I have not received any suggestions as to how I might get the old version back. The only thing offered is how to use and ENJOY (lol) the one I never want to see or use.

DKW | October 5th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

I *hate* m.www.yahoo.com. I do not want to be a part of this test group any longer (I did not sign up for it) and I would like to know how to get rid of it. It takes waaay to long to get to mail.

Selecting people at random is fine, although you should give users an option to cancel testing at any time. Let me reiterate — this new site SUCKS.

Jason | October 5th, 2008 at 7:14 pm

How about listing the files you installed for this forced beta of yours so i can del them. I could be wrong but this has got to be borderline illeagel doing stuff like this without concent.

Deng | October 6th, 2008 at 12:36 am

yo the new rocksssssssssss i llllllllllove it ya

Jill | October 6th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

I have the new page at work. Old one still at at home. No one else in my office has the new one either. Had IT crazy as they were concerned some fradulent site was coming up trying to hack into the corporate system. I do not like the new one, and agree with other posters, how can you just throw people into a test group? Especially since many people use the internet for work. Anything I can do to get the old one back? Yeah…don’t like change when I’m not asked about it or notified of it.

=bg= | October 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

geez, I really wanna see it, and I can’t. Nuts.

swtu_68@yahoo.com | October 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

I want to change back to old one, PLEASE!

steve | October 7th, 2008 at 7:18 am

I hate it… I don’t want to preview my email on a homepage… i want the old log in option without the preview….

JP | October 7th, 2008 at 10:46 am

How do I switch back to the OLD YAHOO !!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate the new TEST !!!!

Trudy | October 7th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

I want the old one back. I do not like one thing about the new one. At the very least let people choose which one they want.
The old one was so much better.
Please take me off your test site…this is just awful.

Jerry | October 7th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

This new dashboard is one of the poorest executed that I have come across. It requires more screens to get where you want to go and also it has slowed the whole machine down. It is absolutely abominal that Yahoo will not get me out of this “test” group. They also could not tell me when it would end ….if ever….
I have now gotten around using it but NOT checking yahoo mail on my work laptop. I check on my iphone and on my desktop for attachments.
Poorly done, poorly executed, and poor customer service…

Thomas | October 7th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

This new page is HORRIBLE and I refuse to check my mail, read the news, or use this page ever from my home computer. I can’t figure out how to get rid of it so I now have to check yahoo at work. The only way I can describe this is AWFUL!!

AG55 | October 7th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Terrible! Takes too long to get to email. Extra steps….yuck. Im all for new but make it more efficient. The email peice is a real…piece.

How do we get the original back as I see really NO benefit from this.

GJ MITchell | October 7th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

Finally ! i liked this site myself and tried to make it my homepage …but it will not do. i thought it was smart, sweet ,compact and to the point a no frills type of homepage …even if there was and ad in the way.
Perhaps it could become and opition for some of us?

Peter | October 8th, 2008 at 6:31 am

PLEASE TELL US ALL HOW TO GET RID OF THIS PAGE!

You at Yahoo have been unresponsive to these many requests from angry users. At least acknowledge that you are getting and processing these requests. Every day that passes where you don’t provide relief from this forced-opt-in experiment with unwilling participants, you are turning customers off to the Yahoo brand.

Terri | October 8th, 2008 at 6:41 am

I do not like this. I did not ask for it to be changed. It scares me that you have control over my computer to change only mine in the office and no one elses.

Email sucks, you have to go through 4 screen before you can read you email.

I want the old yahoo back. You changed this, I did not, how do I change it back.

Bobby Urbanovsky | October 8th, 2008 at 7:08 am

How can I get out of this test group. I totally hate the test homepage. It takes way too long to get to my e-mail. I’ve tried everything I know to get back to the old format. Please tell me how to get rid of this mess.

dlfarley | October 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am

was confused at first i thought it might be a hijacked site just gathering information to steal you identity, but did a little research and found I was a beta tester.
I have to say i was quite surprised when navigating through, it was easy to use and fast on bringing up information.
A thumbs up to yahoo.

Lance | October 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

What does all this mean to you? Since we’re testing with a fraction of homepage visitors chosen at random – starting in the US, UK, France and India – you may be one of the testers

I want to be un-random.

yahoo! front page

alstrooper | October 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

I too was thrown into the ‘testing’ http://www.m.yahoo.com not by choice. There was no notification to inform me of this nor was it clear if yahoo really wants feedback.

I have written to the support group to find out how to get the original yahoo page back. The answer is you cannot. I am now stuck with having to click and navigate multiple times to get to my normal email screen instead of doing it in 1 click. I use to be able to hover over the weather icon to see current weather quickly; now I have to take the time to log in, navigate, and click. With all the negative feedback I have read on this board and zero response from yahoo, I can only assume they do not care and long time users will move on out of sheer frusturation.

Jason | October 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

This whole thing reeks of all kinds of illegal measures. I’m considering a class action lawsuit for all those affected. I did not agree to be Yahoo’s guinea pig and they have obviously altered my computer files by uploading something onto my computer without my permission for this “test” homepage to be active on my computer.

James | October 8th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

I have been thrown into this “test group” as well and feel most of the negative reactions too that are found in previous comments here.
My solution: I set my homepage to “mail.yahoo.com” and created a bookmark for news and sports.

Steve | October 8th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

I agree, the new page is crap.

To tell you the truth I was perfectly happy with the old page,…ads, logos, and all. At least give us the option to get rid of all this crap. I want the old freaking page back because the new one sux !!!

Guess it’s just about time for msn.com,….at least their homepage still looks useable….

Pissed Off | October 8th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

It’s horendous!!! What’s worst, Yahoo does not give you the option to opt out of the so called “random test subject”. No matter how you try to revert to the old version, it won’t let you!!!
I’m off to MSN then!!!!!

Becky | October 8th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

I hate this new m.www.yahoo.com page. It contains less information, requires more clicks to get where I need to go, and is slick-looking at the expense of being info-rich. I used to depend on yahoo.com for news updates etc and with this new page I don’t want to look around at all — too much graphics, too little info, and too many clicks and scrolling required to see anything useful. Takes multiple clicks to navigate to things that used to be a simple click away — like, uh, email!
Really don’t like this, and feel hijacked because the change was made with no notification, and it looks like I can’t change back, and it’s VERY frustrating to have to hunt around to just find that out. Not friendly at all. At the very least you could have announced the change was happening. With the different url I was afraid it was a real hijack of some sort.

=bg= | October 8th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

Is there a URL that points to the new page so I can use it?

Gena | October 9th, 2008 at 7:06 am

I too do not appreciate being included in a test group without your making prior contact and receiving permission from me. I was not asked if I wanted to be part of the new test homepage, and I highly resent it being arbitrarily fobbed off on me. The new site is horrendous — too much clicking and scrolling around to be able to see what used to be easily accessible. Who do you think you are to make changes to MY computer without asking?

PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR “TEST GROUP” IMMEDIATELY AND RESTORE MY ORIGINAL YAHOO. And please, don’t give me that crap about not being able to do it … we can put folks into space and take satellite pictures of our neighbors next door – I’m sure there’s a way to do it.

Sally | October 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

I don’t like it. I especially don’t like that I was included in this test without being asked. I’ve basically stopped using it and will set Google News as my home page.

Marcia | October 9th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I too do not appreciate being included in a test group without my consent. What am I, a lab rat?
There is too much clicking and scrolling on this new site; the reason cities don’t tear up roads and put down new ones at slightly different angles every few years is because the road is functional. It works to get you from here to there. Check with the Romans on that one. Sorry, but I would like the option to stay with Yahoo classic.

oldyahoo | October 9th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

thanks for trying to make things better but as you can see we didn’t like it, so let us get back to http://www.yahoo.com

=bg= | October 9th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

Unreal. The post of “Who do you think you are to make changes to MY computer without asking.” Um..no one changed your PC. It’s a WEBPAGE. Your PC is unchanged. Think before you write. Bucket tests are common. Google is doing one now with iGoogle. But you knew that, I suppose.

Brenda | October 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

“100 million of you in the US and 314 million of you globally starting your day on a Yahoo! homepage.” Guess what? A lot less now. I do not use your website any longer.I detest the thing and totally refuse. It amazes me that you care so little about long time users that you not only ignore requests to be removed from your so called test page-but so little creedence is given to their negative comments as displayed by your lack of response to the awfull reviews the thing is getting. It would do you well to remember a cardinal rule of customer service is to know that it can take a life time to gain a customer,(user), but only a second to loose them. MSN must be estatic that you are actually chasing your users away.

Tapan Bhat | October 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Thanks to everyone who has provided feedback on the new Yahoo! homepage we’re testing – keep it coming. When making changes to one of the most trafficked pages on the Web, we understand that it is important to carefully test our innovations and listen to you, our users. Not every person will like every change, but we truly value all feedback and strive to keep consumers at the heart of our product development process. In order to have the most accurate data for us to make critical decisions from, we need to be able to evaluate how repeat visitors interact with a site once they get used to it. We appreciate your patience during our testing process.

Debbie | October 10th, 2008 at 11:48 am

Finally, I figured out why the heck my page changed. We have 3 computers in the front office, and only mine did. Thought I had a virus or something..Hey Yahoo thanks for the advance notice. I don’t want to hear a thing about bucket tests. This new page can kick the bucket, it’s horrible. I want my old tried and true page back right now! I’m using MSN, and I’m really starting to like it.

Francis | October 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm

I hate it. Please give me back my old http://www.yahoo.com I hate the m.www.yahoo.com I am just being honest guys.

Allen B. | October 11th, 2008 at 8:22 am

Here are the facts as I see them…
1. I hate your new home page.

2. I love the old home page.

3. I can’t believe you rammed this substandard new page down my throat w/o consulting me or giving me an option to switch it back!

I’ve been with YAHOO since its beginning and I feel violated and betrayed. I have already switched my homepage over to MSN on this computer.

My office computer will remain on YAHOO, because you didn’t screw with the home page on that computer.

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING FOLKS!

Allen B. | October 11th, 2008 at 8:31 am

I don’t mean to spam but I left out one valid point..

Remember the lessons learned when Coca Cola changed their formula?

Remember when Schlitz was the number 2 beer in the US before they changed their formula?

I already feel that I’ve been screwed and used with no recourse at all. Consider this one of those “now I see how you are” moments.

Caesar | October 11th, 2008 at 8:43 am

Yahoo is annoyingly manipulative. The customer is just an inconvenient obstacle to be tolerated. Hope they go down the toilet.

mike | October 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am

Too get back to yahoo’s old page I used ATF Cleaner. Save the program to desktop, open it, select all, and push the button “empty selected.” It worked for internet explore, have not tried it for firefox.

ATF cleaner is freeware (FREE)
http://www.majorgeeks.com/ATF_Cleaner_d4949.html

p.s Im not a computer expert, but I have been using ATF cleaner for a long while

Jim | October 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Please give me my old yahoo home page back. I do not like the new one at ALL !!

George Hunter | October 12th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Include me with the those who does NOT like the new Yahoo Home Page!

- Less information is being presented.
- Page loads slower!!
- So much harder to get into your e-mail….

Arghhhhh!!!!

-=> Delete your cookies to go back to the old one <=-

Joel Hershberger | October 13th, 2008 at 6:58 am

I DO NOT like the new yahoo home page.

Nathan | October 13th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

I do not like the change, far less information available from the main screen. I will not log in or use yahoo from my laptop which is being directed to the m.www.yahoo.com page. I have been life long yahoo user and will continue to use at the office and home pc but am upset that you do not allow users to opt out or decline the new version. I believe you allowed users to opt out of the new yahoo mail when that started a year or two ago. I dont know why everyone likes to google things when they can yahoo them. If you want more of the market I guess try getting your ‘old’ yahoo home page in a new popular movie. Otherwise just keep your loyal patrons happy with less changes.

Thanks

Brenda | October 13th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Deleting the cookies does work. I now have the “old” home page back. Thanks for the advice.

allen | October 13th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

ugh…i hate this new version.
now we have to multi-click everywhere just to surf within the yahoo homepage.
trying to see what movies there are in yahoo movie page and signing in to check mails are some of the bothers created from this new thing

Steve | October 14th, 2008 at 9:34 am

I hate it sooo much. Please let me switch back.

=bg= | October 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm

Tapan: still on the Yahoo Beta watch. Still don’t have it. Want it. Don’t care about these comments. Push it my way, OK?

Mark | October 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm

If you are going to change the website, at least give us the option of using the old version as well. I know you are going to do it anyway, but there are a lot of people like me that can’t stand this new version. It shouldn’t take much effort to maintain the old version as a “skin”. MSN is my homepage but I go to Yahoo for email and searching because I don’t like MSN’s search. If this new Yahoo page goes into effect without a choice, then I think I will be using Google to search and possibly switch to gmail as well.

Ashanti | October 15th, 2008 at 7:30 am

I love the new test page! It’s new, fresh and more savy!

ryan | October 15th, 2008 at 9:12 am

arghhhhh. i hate the new yahoo crap..
this was the most useless version of this system yet.
my only advice,
stick to the basics,
reconnect and apoligize to your customers that you pissed off,
stop pouring your money into new ideas, just make the old ones better and faster.

jerry | October 15th, 2008 at 11:03 am

I do not like the new home page at all. The page colors looks like they’re tryning to copy MSN. The content on the new page is limited due to the new “special” apps that Yahoo! is using. Right now I have to use the new Yahoo homepage at home and the old Yahoo page at work. Might as well switch over to MSN. At least MSN does make you keep up with two versions.

wes | October 15th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

I hate it. make it the way it was.

Scott | October 16th, 2008 at 5:46 am

I can’t stand this site. I don’t like being unable to revert back to the way it was. I also don’t like the fact that I am using this at work and my traffic is tracked and this site currently requires me to make several other page jumps before I get to my mail (which is the only reason I use Yahoo!) rather than just going to mail.yahoo.com.

If it stays this way much longer I will just revert to Google or someone else!!!!!!!!

STOP the random acts of blindness!!!! Don’t hijack my page.

Jason | October 16th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

I hate the new site its seems more cumbersome to get around then the old site i’ve been a yahoo use since the mid 90’s and this is aweful.. i thought there was something wrong since my work computer has it but my home one doesnt.. what the hell. can you at least have had a pop-up saying “would you like to try the new yahoo home page ” yes or no”… and have a way to get the old one back.. what kinda of business just changes stuff on people without asking or letting them opt out.. PLEASE LET ME HAVE THE OLD PAGE BACK!!

Eric | October 16th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

i found my homepage suddenly redirected to this m.yahoo.com website. Everytime i tried to go to http://www.yahoo.com the page would redirect. In this world of computer viruses and websites that try to look like legitimate sites to obtain personal information, as a webdeveloper myself, I am shocked and angered that Yahoo would do such a redirect without at least some notification to users. I sincerely thought that my computer was infected, and made several attempts to restore my computer as a result simply because I assumed wrongly that yahoo would not do something so moronic as launch an entirely new homepage at a new URL without so much as a warning. If You sincerely want to improve your homepage, may I suggest looking back at your original website which brought yahoo success in the first place. Sometimes, you can ruin a good thing. And for the sake of basic security, ask for beta users consent prior to tossing users into a new homepage.

jason | October 16th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Ok i was fustrated with the new page also dont like it .. but I was thinkin maybe its just a cookie they put on the machine to make it do that and sure enough when i deleted all my internet history/cookies etc in IE.. i have my old comforable Yahoo.com back YAAHOO!!!

Eric | October 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

For Users who do not want to continue using this crappy homepage… go to Tools/ internet options/ browsing history/ Delete…
I deleted program files, cookies and history… but I understand just deleting cookies should work.

Finally, write Yahoo and let them know that what they are doing is a serious security risk opening users up to identity theft.

Jen | October 16th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

for a starting point please keep yahoo live thanx

Jen | October 16th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

i would love to try the new homepage please yahoo keep up the great work

Will Henderson | October 16th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

what the hell were you thinking Yahoo!. you should ask people first, not do the change it while no one is looking and without permission crap. it’s morons in charge of yahoo that p*** people off like me. no wonder Mircosoft wanted to buy you out. you should had let microsoft bought you out. at least they would have given us an heads up. i guess my new homepage will be an wrestling news website. at least they are more important to me that this unwanted crap.

L | October 16th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

I hate it. It is cluttered, too much going on and the color is too distracting. Why was I not given an option to choose the new web page or stay with the original? How do I turn it off and revert to the original, cleaner and clearer http://www.yahoo.com?

nick | October 16th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Ugh, like everyone else, I hate this new page. And the most frustrating part is that my office comp still runs the old page, and I cant get it on my home comp! i end up just typing mail.yahoo.com to go to my mailbox, but honestly, if this is how it is from now on, I’ll start using my gmail acct…

Joe R | October 16th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

I use Yahoo to check promarily to check my email…this new page forces me to take extra steps …There is nothing I like about this new page…Please keep the older version

blah | October 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

I just got this new homepage for the 1st time tonight. Too bad it doesn’t even work on Firefox 3 and I use Firefox exclusively. All I see is a bunch of text and images overlapping each other going down the left side of the screen. Guess I have to delete my cookies since it’s not even readable or usable on my browser.

As mentioned by others, a note should’ve be added to the new page so those effected were immediately informed of what was going on instead of thinking they had a virus/spyware that was hijacking and redirecting their homepage. That’s very poor form on yahoo’s part when it should have been basic common sense.

Charles | October 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

This was not only done without advance notice to the non-tech geeks among us, but it’s artistically bland. Now I know why Yahoo’s stock keeps tanking and why they can’t engage in sensible business combinations. You call this independence. When I reach the sign in point, I am welcomed to sign in to Gmail as well. You sold out, Mr. Chen, and unfortunately to the devil whose fortunes have long waned.

Good luck with this junk. I’m switching to MSN.

Bill | October 16th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

I do not like it Sam I am, I do not like this home page spam.

Knock knock, who’s there’s….Yahoo

Yahoo who? New Yahoo sucks.

What did the old Yahoo say to the new Yahoo? Yafool

wtf | October 16th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

does not work well with firefox 3. The layouts are in a mess in my firefox 3.

Anie | October 17th, 2008 at 12:19 am

I HATE this. why do you guys put all the junk above fold? I only care about news, and now i have to go all the way down to see any meaningful content.
Left side bar is total waste of space. How can I turn off?
I recommend you to keep the old version. Otherwise you will lose #2 position.

Jarrod | October 17th, 2008 at 7:35 am

Like many others here, I didn’t really like the redesign when I first saw it (was randomly chosen). But I got the hang of it really quickly and it’s beginning to grow on me.

I like that you got rid of the text ads at the bottom. I like the way the featured content and news is displayed (though, I’d recommend using “cursor: pointer” in the css code for hovering over featured/news tabs). It would also be a good idea to allow users to switch the order of the featured and news sections – some may want the news to be on top. The new mail checking feature seems really nifty (though I haven’t taken advantage yet), but it does make a part of me wonder, if this is the direction you’re moving in, why not just scrap the static homepage altogether and use my.yahoo instead? Maybe that’s too much for some? Or is this where you’re trying to eventually get to?

Oh, and many have complained that they couldn’t find Answers and other of their favorite links. They are right there on the top right but people’s eyes were accustomed to going left. Actually, looking at the page the only *significant* difference from the old design. Add some of the purple to that area and people’s eyes may naturally follow (and consider adding Yahoo’s purchased properties like Delicious, Flickr, etc to that default list.) And make it work in FF3.

Anyway, it certainly isn’t as terrible as some are making it out to be (imo). But it does need a few tweaks.

jeremy | October 19th, 2008 at 9:36 am

its too slow all the way around. i like the old one better, but i cant seem to return my homepage to the classic.
maybe you have a few more bugs to work out. if i cant get my homepage to change then im gonna have to go to google.

VAMtns41 | October 19th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

1. I do not appreciate being included in test without my permission!
2. I do not like the new Yahoo Homepage, looks, functioning, etc. I use 3 Yahoo e-mail accounts for differing purposes. Use to be easy to quickly check all 3 with no clicks. Now takes 3 clicks just to sign in for each e-mail; which adds up to 9 extra clicks.
3. Your Tech services said I could not get back to the old Yahoo Homepage. Not being a techie, I almost said the heck with it! But I was angry & determined 66 year-old. So Yahoo Technical Support: I am a better Techie than you! Ha! I got back! Bet you wish you knew how I did it! But I am not going to tell you. If a non-techie 66 year-old can figure it out, you young hot-shot Techies should be able to figure it out yourselves! HAND! :-)

Jon | October 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

There is absolutely nothing to like about m.www.yahoo.com. I’ve tried to switch my homepage back to the original yahoo.com now for a few weeks thinking someone using my computer reset my homepage, but now I see that I’m one of the unlucky ones that this is being tested on. I want out. I don’t need flashy colors and cool looking icons, I just want the old yahoo homepage back. Hopefully this page will be scrapped, as it looks to be something of interest to children rather than the mass public (the various colors and big option buttons). If this isn’t switched soon I will definately be using another site for both my mail and news. Also, those affected by this switch should have been notified, as I have been frustrated for weeks trying to get rid of this new yahoo page. Thanks for nothing yahoo.

radha | October 19th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

I HATE IT. I HATE IT. I HATE IT.

NEW YAHOO SUCKS.

cathy | October 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

IF YOU HATE THIS NEW YAHOO M AND WANT THE OLD YAHOO BACK JUST DELETE COOKIES. TO DO THIS CLICK ON TOOLS THEN INTERNET OPTIONS DELETE COOKIES.AND YES IT WORKS.
Deleting the cookies does work. I now have the “old” home page back. Thanks for the advice.

Chuck | October 20th, 2008 at 3:43 am

I have “classic” Yahoo at the office and the new Yahoo at home. After using the new version for several days I can’t definitely say I much prefer classic Yahoo over the new one. The new one is definitely inferior.

Eric | October 20th, 2008 at 5:51 am

hate the new homepage, if the look remains like it is now I’ll remove Yahoo as my homepage and search engine and visit rarely to collect emails..and yeah, the ad space is outta hand.

Noelle | October 20th, 2008 at 7:20 am

I too hate this new web page. I thought that I had a virus and was running my anit-virus software almost every day until I realized I had been “randomly” selected to test this new page. I now only check my mail awork, where I have the old browser.

When I get home tonight I will be taking the advise of others and deleting my cookies, hoepfully this will help to restore the old yahoo homepage.

How can you test a site without first informing the public? With identity theft and malicious viruses running rampant on the web, was it really a good idea to do this without first informing us? Shame on Yahoo.

robert chris | October 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

I have been “randomly” selected to have this intrusion placed upon my home page, I do not like it and they tell me I cannot get my old style back. I am not happy and just get a corporate runaround as to why I cannot get get the old style back. If they “giveth” they should be able to “taketh” also.

wallydog | October 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Please add me to the beta…I would like to test the new home page please.

Mheater | October 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Please tell me how to revert back to the prior version of the Yahoo home page.

I don’t want the new version.

Terry | October 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

I have used it for a week now, and really don’t like it at all. Important things that used to take one click — like getting my mail — now takes multiple clicks. A small annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless. Also, it has less total information on the screen and, again, I have to click around to see the same things I could see on the old homepage.

SO, I switched back. It is easy (just delete your cookies and internet saved files). Ahhh…. Sorry, people, the new site is pretty, but not good for me. PLEASE let us keep our old homepage as an option. Thanks!

Le Anne | October 20th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

Congratulations; you have upset the A-TYPE personalities. Good for you…….oddly enough, had you done your homework, you would have known that you should have FIRST sent a request for participation. People with B-TYPE [like my husband] love change and willingly participate in the latest/greatest. B-TYPES are carefree and less likely to fire an employee or switch services, unlike A-TYPES who are known to revolt when messed with. Curiously, my husband [Mr. B] was not included in your “random act of testing” my patience. FORTUNATELY FOR YAHOO, my husband endured my “Yahoo is so stupid” venting session and restored the original homepage.
On a positive note: I didn’t know I had browser options until reading through the mass of complaints. I visited the MSN.COM webpage and I am think I’ll give them a try now. As I said before, we A-TYPE creatures don’t like change [Translation: loyalty].

Carl | October 21st, 2008 at 4:22 am

I like the look and feel of the new site. It feels uncluttered. I can only seem to get it on my work computer though. I would like to have it stay with me in any browser on all of my computers.

Jim | October 21st, 2008 at 10:07 am

THE NEW PAGE SUCKS!!

Thank you for giving me a good reason to switch to Google. I just switched, and I love it already.

william goldman | October 21st, 2008 at 12:25 pm

WHO IN THE WORLD DECIDED TO MESS AROUND WITH YAHOO PROFILES? YOU’VE TOTALLY DESTROYED WHAT SOME OF US HAVE BEEN USE TO SINCE 2000 OR BEFORE.
I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO UPDATE MY PROFILE, BUT I STILL CAN’T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT MY FRIEND’S PROFILES.
YOU’VE DONE A TERRIBLE THING,YAHOO, AND YOUR REDUCED SPONSORSHIP WILL SHOW THIS.
WITH ALL YOUR INTERNET GURES, SURELY YOU CAN FIX WHAT YOU HAVE DESTROYED

Sam1046 | October 21st, 2008 at 3:15 pm

Yahoo!, What have you done with my homepage!?!? I don’t think picking me randomly without a headsup was very nice, especially because I am a paying customer! Yahoo is one of the easiest, user-friendly engines out there. People are familar with it and that makes people like it more than “the other guys”. Change isn’t always a good thing, especially when you do it without saying you are doing it. At least give us the option to go back to Classic as you do in Yahoo Mail.
BTW, If it matters, I actually liked the “crowded” look because it gave me a huge selection of goodies to click on. Well, guess I’ll go to a link in my “Favorites” now. :(

Chris | October 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm

The new homepage that I “volunteered” to test is a piece of crap.

This experience has been like catching some disease.

To all you other displaced users — I’m looking for recommendations for a new homepage. AOL, MSN, iGoogle, ???

Actually, I just looked at iGoogle, and I believe that is where I’m going.

Voice of Reason | October 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm

DELETE YOUR COOKIES

deena | October 21st, 2008 at 8:10 pm

the “new” yahoo really scared me today – thankfully i could get back to the original page (clearing cookies)

it looks like the old Web TV if anyone remembers that – or the lame web services provided by hotels – it’s silly.

if they switch to this perm, thank goodness there are other options – at least we were able to use Yahoo! as our starting point for the past 14 years – if they force this change on everyone they will surely go under – maybe their following has been diminished and this is a last ditch effort – either way , what a pitty…

david salz | October 22nd, 2008 at 3:04 am

I want the old yahoo format back please can you give it to me this one is terrible. The new one

Ciotee | October 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 am

Dear Yahoo,

Please fire Tapan Bhat for screwing us by making us use this stupid new homepage that everyone hates.

Thank you.
Ciotee

cathy | October 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am

WANT THE OLD YAHOO BACK JUST DELETE COOKIES.
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
I POSTED ON 10/19 HOW TO GET OLD YAHOO BACK JUST DELETE COOKIES.DON’T ANYONE READ COMMENTS ANYMORE????????

Kevin | October 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am

It’s all been said…

There are far too many clicks needed to get to my e-mail and other features. In a world that has conditioned us for fast food, even one extra click is like watching water in a pot till it boils!

OUT WITH THE NEW AND IN WITH THE OLD!!!

Yahoo!, listen to us customers before we flee to the competition (by the way, they’re reading these comments). How much more testing do you need? Act now; act fast before we do!

Trevor Powell | October 22nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Make the favicon purple too!!

Peter Torrey | October 22nd, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Hate this. We want back to the old Yahoo page. No help anywhere on how to get out of test group.

Will probably move to Google.

d_b | October 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm

The new page is terrible and I do not like being a guinea pig for yahoo or anyone else.

Clearing cookies alone does not work. Do as mike suggested on Oct. 11 and download ATF Cleaner from majorgeeks.com

Tarak | October 22nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm

The yahoo site switched on me 2 days ago and it is miserable. I am using firefox as my regular browser and I have even switched to IE just to view the old yahoo page (which shows up under IE and I understand now that this is due to cookies)

Sorry to say this, but the new page is terrible (let’s use decent words only!)

Too much empty space (what a waste of space). Updates are less frequent, layout needs to be customizable, cannot access common information like mails, market indices, sports scores etc. without having to click (Could be drop down).

The old page is compact, neat, very well thought out and organized to the point that I never even bothered to use ‘my yahoo’.

And please, at the least, you should have provided the option to go back to the original page by providing some easy link on the new page.

scott | October 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 am

Well, frankly, I could write an hour long response, but I will make it short.

First, I deleted my cookies, and I no longer suffered m.www.yahoo. Why would yahoo not mention this?

Second, do you have any idea how many hours it took out of my day to fix the problem? Yes, m.www is a PROBLEM.

Third, you provided no warning to your users about this nonsense.

Fourth, the m.www page is atrocious.

Fifth, before I was able to fix the problem, I actually re-set my homepage from Yahoo to CNN. I imagine many other users changed their home page after being redirected WITHOUT PERMISSION to m.www.

Sixth, does your company not know why yahoo.com is the most favored homepage? m.www looks like a celebrity worship magazine cover wanna be.

Seventh, if indeed m.www becomes the new layout, I will no longer use yahoo.

Eighth, the designer of m.www should be pink slip number 1501. What on Earth was that person thinking?

The idea was horrible and then even worse in its execution. A bad idea, imposed without warning or permission, costing your customers time and money to fix, and alienating your customers so much that they would choose a new homepage. Also, the redirection WITHOUT PERMISSION AND WITHOUT WARNING to m.www was a horrible way to treat customers.

Jade | October 23rd, 2008 at 6:46 am

Just like facebook yahoo are gonna force us to an almost 100 perecent crappy new site(although not as crappy lookin as the new facebook so i’ll give yahoo a half pt in favor). Rather we like it or not. Seems places like yahoo are now like a few well known others trying to be the next myspace and facebook. It’s really sad you have to mess stuff up. Who got a bonus for thinking of this new layout at the board meeting. Come on yahoo! I’m disappointed I been a fan of yahoo and user since 95 but now I think I might have to find a new fav. I think it be nice if you just had the option permanently to use whichever version we like. The new or old. Also I see you mentioned something about being to see what our friends are doing on yahoo and across the web. Sounds like invasion of our privacy… another wannabe facebook moment I see. Also no email or post on the yahoo.com or myyahoo mentioning of the new look letting us know ahead of time and giving us a link to check out the new one not just forcing it upon us and making us think maybe someone phished our pages and more. BOOO YAHOO BOOO!!! No soup for you! :P (sorry had to vent.)

brsds | October 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm

the new yahoo front page sucks
i liked being able to view mail and my messenger contacts from the front page now i cant

i emailed and they said they wont/cant go back to older page,

thanks alot yahoo, at least give us some $ if you are going to use us as lab rats

good bye yahoo@!

Jessica | October 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pm

Yes it looks nice and flashy but I have had this a week and really do not like it. I really like how the new used to be and now I go elsewhere for my news plus you have to go through way to many clicks to get into the email.

Flashy Yes
Functional No

You will see soon when you are forced with this new improved homepage

C los | October 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Last week Yahoo went blank, all I got was a white page no explanation what so ever. Then on the news I hear Yahoo is going to be beta testing a new version. So WHY did no one ASK ME if I wanted to be part of this?

Well it took me a WEEK to figure how to get Yahoo back. THANKS for telling me you were going to FORCE me to use the NEW version. That really made my WEEK!

So now I am searching for a new site, I see that my experience and needs don’t matter to you.

b.l.j | October 23rd, 2008 at 2:57 pm

I really, really hate the new yahoo. Please put the old yahoo.com back up. I realize some people are opposed to change but that is not my problem. The inconvience of having to take additional steps to get to my e-mail, my weather not up at a glance, just to mention two problems, has quickly made m.www.yahoo.com my least favorite place to visit.

Jack Smith | October 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Wow, all these horrifying bad comments about the new beta site and all any yahoo employee has to say is “thanks for the feedback :)” Duh. There’s not brain cell in the building apparently. Any idiot would have put a restore or opt out button on such a buggy and sluggish release. C’mon.

MartinB | October 24th, 2008 at 9:07 am

I too have been randomly selected to try out the m.www.yahoo site without being notified or asked. Of course the first thing I thought was that my laptop had been hacked and I ended up wasting a lot of time trying to figure out what had happened that I could have been doing other things. After finally figuring out that it was yahoo’s legitimate site, I tried living with it for a while but after repeat visits, I still hate it! I want my regular yahoo back! I did try deleting my cookies, but still have m.www.yahoo hounding me. I have always had yahoo as my home page, but after this, I really am thinking about going elsewhere. Just to check my mail, I have to click four or five different links. Not worth my time! The best thing I USED to like about yahoo was that it was simple, not FRUSTRATING!

Walid Negm | October 24th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Constructive Feedback:
- I am dismayed at the lack of communication that I was part of a test group for your new page. I can understand involuntarily being lumped into a pool of guinea pigs – but at least tell me about it. Notify me.

- As a loyal, paying Yahoo! Mail user – it takes me more time to get to my mail.

- There does not seem to be any value add to the new layout. On the contrary it is disorienting. Facebook changed its UI with users going up in arms. That was a different story. They had significant functionality and privacy controls that needed to be deployed. Here, what are we doing exactly? Change for the sake of change?

- Each of the so-called “Application” is displayed as mashups of part of the final destination – but to get any meaningful data – i end up going to the final destination. It seems I am always one click away.

Greg | October 24th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

I FRIGGIN HATE IT!! SO DO HUNDREDS OF OTHER YAHOO USERS THAT WOULD AT LEAST LIKE THE OPTION OF REVERTING BACK TO THE OLD LOOK. CHECK OUT YAHOO ANSWERS TO SEE JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE P.O.’ED!! (MYSELF INCLUDED) REMEMBER THE OLD SAYING; IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT? THAT’S WHAT’S GREAT ABOUT AMERICA. FOR THE MOST PART,…WE HAVE CHOICES. YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT IF I DON’T HAVE ONE WITH YAHOO, I’LL SIMPLY MOVE ON. A LOYAL USER FOR 12+ YEARS, I MUST ADMIT, I HATE THE NEW LOOK OF YAHOO!

HappyHauler | October 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Thank you for randomly screwing up my ease of computing by adding that itty bitty “m” to your URL. Oh yeah and the extra strokes required to see what’s new in my mail box.

Why oh why do people think that “change” is progress?

I really believe if we aren’t told how to get rid of this new, experimental and un-solicited piece of crap there may be grounds for a class action law suit.

As far as I’m concerned it’s SPAM!

Tell us how to go back to what _we_ want, not what you _think_ we should have.

Ken | October 24th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

This M.yahoo pirated my firefox and I hate it. i can’t get the regular yahoo main page back. yahoo sucks.

Valerie | October 24th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

I hate what you did to my Yahoo homepage. I used Yahoo in the past because it was straight-forward and superior to Aol. Now it’s just another site that hijacks me and tries to herd me where they want me to go.

If anyone has some suggestions about another site to switch to – let me know. I don’t have any loyalty to Yahoo anymore.

Chelsea | October 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am

Agreed, EXTREMELY frustrating. I’m using Firefox 3.0.3, and this page is completely unusable when using the Adblock Plus extension. Considering it’s an extremely popular extension with apparently over 300,000 weekly downloads (according to the Firefox web site), that’s a bit of a problem. With Adblock Plus enabled, Everything is completely left-aligned, none of those table-like DIVs like there are supposed to be. What I assume is supposed to be that pretty teal-ish sidebar is several teal and gold stripes of various thickness stretching completely across the page, and none of the text that is apparently supposed to be in it is actually in it. What is there is black, which makes it completely impossible to read anyway. Under Featured Services, there is text on top of picture icons, and in some places, text on top of text. That’s just the worst of it that I can pick out. I assure you, it’s bad.

Just thought I’d let you know.

WW | October 25th, 2008 at 2:09 am

I am not a person who complains a lot online I hate typing but I loved the old page it grew on me I was used to it. I hate this new page its like you kidnapped my pet gave hime a mohawk, died his hair, pierced his ear, then wrote the word Xtreme on his collar. I hate that you have forced me to use it. I hate that there was no information given on how to revert it back to normal. I hate that we were not given any choice. And I hate that you didnt even offer even a link to an explanation. I had to spend hours just finding this page yeah nice of you to hjide the reason my hompage has changed I thought for a while I was accidently getting the mobile version of the hompage or somtething. Shame on you for changing things without a readily accesable explanation. just in case you only scan for key words I leave you with the following to ensure you will read this. Angry bad horrible wrong stupid no compicated hard Do not want.

Jonathan Langdale | October 25th, 2008 at 7:30 am

While it might appear to be an improvement, with such a great brand as Yahoo, it’s a shame that the Yahoo.com web UI designers cannot do better. Yahoo could and should be more aesthetically on par with something like Apple.com and CNN.com. The purple marketing campaign is a great idea, but it appears to be poorly executed. There is no cross-brand uniformity. It looks like you have several designers working separately. This is confusing but not necessarily surprising considering the size of the company.

Going web 2.0 for the sake of it comes off weak and AOLish. I would be looking towards web 3.0.

Simplify, simplify, simplify.

KRF | October 25th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

I get thrown to this crappy website when I want to go to straight yahoo.com. Why the hell can’t I visit Yahoo.com anymore?!!!

Jose | October 25th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

I want my old home page back! How do I stop being redirected?

Valerie | October 25th, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Many thx to Jason and Eric and others. I went to internet options on my control panel and deleted cookies and got my old trusted Yahoo homepage back. At least for now. It was really easy. This reminds me of when “Aboutblank” which is kind of a viral site used to hijack my homepage. Nice going Yahoo. Now I don’t trust you either.

Good luck all.

David | October 25th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

This new Home Page sucks. I’m giving up Yahoo if this is your idea of a good Idea. It sucks, really Yahoo go back.

Timothy | October 25th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

horrible…first my work pc is showing this…now my home pc is…I absolutely HATE the new layout…less information and harder to get to things. I literally read the front page of Yahoo (news especially) 20 + times a day…but no more if this is what i have to endure :(

samii | October 26th, 2008 at 10:26 am

users of Firefox with Adblock Plus and Easylist look here
http://forums.lanik.us/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2572

Jamie | October 26th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

This is a pointless change. It makes things take longer, requires extra clicks to get around, and decreases visibility (you handily left out the part about the mail tab requiring a click to open, then having to load while completely covering the featured section). I’m frankly upset with the Yahoo team for forcing this upon users without the option of going back. It’s like a mother trying to force-feed broccoli to her kid, except this isn’t better than the alternative, and I’m not a kid. This issue will decrease the likelihood that I will continue to use yahoo.com.

Mary | October 26th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

I have used Yahoo for a very long time, but no more. I hate the new page, for all the reasons other posters have mentioned. I have deleted cookies several times, but the horrible new page comes back after a short while. I have changed my homepage to another site. I have book marked the mail page as others have suggested so that I can by-pass as much of Yahoo as possible. Unless the old page comes back, I will soon begin the process of switching over my email accounts to gmail. What exactly is Yahoo testing? How many long-time satisfied users they can drive away? By that measure it must be a very successful test.

brad | October 27th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

i don’t like it. I want to go back to the original page layout. how can i do that? i don’t care to be a “Tester”

Rick | October 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

This sucks, and yahoo obviously isn’t listening. I will have to go to msn for my news now, never really liked their site either but it’s better than this new yahoo crap. Don’t they realize that people like to have a choice and not have something forced on them. Can you hear that, what’s that sound, oh it’s the sound of yahoo stock falling even further.

Matthew | October 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am

Hate it, hate it, hate it.

It takes so many clicks to get into my email account.
Why are you forcing me to stay on the homepage longer rather than letting me dive into my complete inbox? Gaah!

Howie | October 28th, 2008 at 11:19 am

Maybe the search button should start wearing purple as well??

A golden border around it can have a similar effect you are trying to accomplish to help it stand out while also retaining/regaining brand consistency.

Love the design overall – keep up the good work ya yahoos!

:)

ArunaR | October 28th, 2008 at 11:57 am

I hate to say it but I hate the new yahoo page. I like the format and the way information is presented on the regular page.

Lee | October 28th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

I hate it! Please give me the old site back–at least an option to chose whether to use the m site or not. Forcing the public to switch as a consensus test is ethically wrong.

Sandy | October 28th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one disturbed. I did delete my cookies so I could return to the old yahoo. I also e-mailed yahoo and got the run-around. They certainly didn’t tell me about deleting my cookies – my 13 year-old son had to do that!

Natalia | October 28th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

The new Yahoo is very inconvenient. But worst of all, it doesn’t explain how to get back to the old Yahoo page and mail.
If you roll anything new out and testing it on random users without their permission (like me), at least have the courtesy of letting them opt out of this test if they choose.
This is the most unprofessional way of testing the new product.

lucie | October 28th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

I HATE THE NEW WEB PAGE I WAS SOO USED TO THE OLD ONE THAT I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING ON THE NEW ONE AND I HATE HOW YAHOO MAIL WON’T OPEN UNLESS YOU CLICK ON THIS ONE LITTLE BUTTON AND OMG ITS JUST SOOO ANNOYING!! IS THERE ANYWAY I CAN USE THE NORMAL 2007 VERSION??/

Carla | October 29th, 2008 at 5:06 am

I hate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want the old way back.

Dmitry | October 29th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

This is the very bad attempt to redo the home page by Yahoo. The Web 2.0 concept just doesn’t work.
If you guys think that will help you to bring the revenue up that is big mistake.
In fact you going to loose people.
Very bad move.

P.S I think you over paying you Web Development team the concept is simply sucks.

Cheers, DS

jean-pierre | October 29th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

goodbye yahoo. Please ask me before you make me a guinea pig and not giving me the possibility of opting out of your experiment.

.... | October 29th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

I hate this one I want it to go back to the old one. it looked much better and im use to it now. CHANGE IT BACK PLLLLLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZZZZ

doris | October 30th, 2008 at 3:01 am

I hate this web site,just leave yahoo alone and go back to the old yahoo web site…please

John G Teetsel | October 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am

I want to know how to remove m.yahoo.com from my pc.

Philip Edward Schumacher | October 30th, 2008 at 9:53 am

I do appreciate improvement efforts. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it (folk saying). Improvements can be made a little at a time. The former long-standing Yahoo! front page is a testament to something that works well.
If Yahoo! sent an invitation first, I’d probably be happy to test their new format. I remember switching back and forth from the new Yahoo! Mail and Mail Classic only to decide on the new version. I do understand the merits of having randomly chosen people to test. Forget it though, if I must accustom myself to something new then I’d be as well choosing a new home page altogether.

T | October 30th, 2008 at 10:18 am

I will now be switching back to MSN for my home page. I do not like the change and do not appreciate not being advised or given the choice to not participate in the experiment. Although it may be slightly tedious to notify all of my contacts to use my new address, I will definitely be doing so. It is too bad, since I have been using Yahoo for so long that it has to come to this.

Dave Gunderson | October 30th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

I’ve had YAHOO as my homepage since I bought my PC in 2002. If I don’t get the old version back I will find another home page.

What possessed the yahoos at YAHOO to force this on us? You finally get used to something and they want to fix what ain’t broke!!!!!

Former Yahoo User | October 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

The new home page sucks. I’m switching my start page to MSN or Google.

doris | October 30th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

I want my old yahoo homepage back.

mmoshe | October 30th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

i cleared cookies and it workes, iam back to the old yahoo. yaaaaaaaaaay!!

David Meinhart | October 30th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

I too, would like to at the very least, have the choice to use the M site, and the old site. I found that the old version suited me much better. It everything I wanted to use, right at my fingertips. The poll news, world news, my email, etc etc.

We need to let the engineers know that we want a choice, people. Otherwise this is just going to keep on happening.

Yahoo M is a terrible looking front page. Just terrible.

Tom Gott | October 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Please change it back, I have 2 press 100 links to get to my mail I will never come back if you dont PLZZ

Art | October 31st, 2008 at 7:21 am

I hate it! Just give me old homepage back and let me get on with my business!

Bill | October 31st, 2008 at 8:13 am

Because of the new Yahoo home page that you are “testing” (“test page” on my home computer, wife’s computer and office have original page) I am no longer using Yahoo because it’s a pain. Keep making changes like this and Google’s stock will keep going up while yours keeps plummeting.

ray | October 31st, 2008 at 9:34 am

I hate this new layout and I want it off my computer, but I can’t seem to get rid of it. I’m going to change my homepage away from Yahoo!. Unfortunatly I’m in the middle of a yahoo fantasy football league with friends or I would just abandon this site entirely.

ben | October 31st, 2008 at 6:59 pm

I wasted an hour of my life trying to figure out how to get rid of it. Feels a LOT like AOL back in the day. Really bad. Let people choose the ‘beta’ like you did with mail instead of forcing it. Don’t forget how you got here — It doesn’t take much to lose customers, and you are shedding a boatload. I just signed up for gmail today after 15 YEARS with yahoo.

Whitneymuse | October 31st, 2008 at 10:41 pm

It’s apalling how you would just spring this on someone; a home page, is an important gateway; and it’s very upsetting to awaken and find nothing is where it should be, and then have to take a good hour (that you don’t have) to navigate around something that should never have happened in the first place, with NO switch to get back to the original unadulterated verion; I was despicable what you did to me after using your homepage for 10 years and then have that rude surprise foisted upon me out of the clear, last week.

That was a Shitty thing to do.

kaitlin | November 1st, 2008 at 7:03 am

ok you guys seriously this is twice you have tried to run this crap on my computer with no warning no consent no ANYTHING! enough’s enough…cut the crap and add some warning. (delete your cookies and it will go away for those of you who were lucky enough to be in this test program)

Kyle Anderson | November 1st, 2008 at 12:47 pm

I am just curious as to how it looks and I don’t have this new page everyone else say they have. How can I see it?

wilson | November 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm

I prefer old yahoo home page. This new layout make screen looks smaller. the left hand side panel is kind of waste of page space, the bigger fancy icons are not necessary. maybe it’s only me. I hate to say that but I don’t want this new layout to be my homepage. sorry.

Gary | November 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm

i dont like it and how do i get the old one back

Carla | November 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 am

Wow I wake up one day and my homepage has changed..
After spending a bunch of time trying to figure out how it got changed and how to change it back, I found that Yahoo was testing a new homepage.
Something’s are best left alone. There is a saying if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Yahoo original isn’t broke.
I understand that you need to improve things, but really…….
So I will give you my opinion of the home page.
Don’t like it. Looks like AOL use to look. It looks like you have set mail to add accounts. That’s a nice feature but do it under the regular home page.
Anyways I finally figured out how to go back and I did. But thanks for selecting me as one of your guinea pigs. Not.

Dave | November 2nd, 2008 at 7:04 am

I also don’t like it. It is not user friendly. I can’t get access to “my Yahoo” from it. I’ve sent several email to the help desk and they keep telling me that there is no way to go back. The only thing I hear back is how great this is supposed to be and that I better like it. WRONG. I can quit using Yahoo. Why was I mandated to be a test subject for this?

Reading some of the nortes above, I will try to clear the cookines.

Why wouldn’t the help desk tell me that?

Excellent way to take care of loyal users……….

sherine | November 2nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm

i absolutely hate it and want the old homepage back!!!

i did not ask to be changed, somebody tell me how to get the old homepage back please :(

shannon | November 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm

I highly dislike the new yahoo website. I also am very unhappy that I was chosen to be a guinea pig for the test run. Do not choose me again or I will stop using my yahoo account. It is too dark and I prefer to view my account on the right side of the screen not the left. When I emailed the help center and asked to be switched back to the old version, I was told no. Thanks for the emphasis on customer satisfaction.

Mike | November 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Please tell me know to go back to the old homepage.

Jon-Jacob | November 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 pm

There’s nothing I can say that hasn’t been said, but add another “the new homepage sucks” comment to the already-substantial pile.

Sometimes less is more, but in this case, less is less. The feng shui might be better, but the functionality has suffered.

1. Form follows function.
2. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Joe | November 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am

Why are you all griping about the new page? To me it makes it more user friendly, and about the ad, i have a simple solution. 1>get firefox 2> it’s called ADBLOCK & it’s simple to use. If anything you ppl that are complaining should feel grateful that you are the lucky few who get to use the new page. Technically what is the main problem? I see none. Just wish I could have the page myself.

Seacoast | November 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm

I Do not care for the new home page. I did find a way by deleting my cookies;tempory internt files and uninstalling and reinstally my Yahoo toolbar. I got my “Classic Yahoo” main page back.

Yahoo, can certainly do what they want and push the new look page but give the users the “option” of keeping the classic main page if they so desire. As a Yahoo shareholder I am not very happy with the lack of leadership and lack of directin the company is heading in, failing to meet the demands of Google and MSN and the failed MS bid- wake up and smell the coffee and listen. Today there are lots of choices and some or many might go to Google or MSN if you do not please the user “customer “. So take the cotton out of your ears Yahoo and put the cotton in your mouth for a change.

Lee | November 3rd, 2008 at 4:22 pm

to get rid of the “new” yahoo homepage. download and run ccleaner. It’s free and will get rid of a lot of other stuff.

eknirb | November 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm

I think it looks GREAT. Curiously; it shows up on IE7..and not FF3.03.

??

aznxxnugget | November 4th, 2008 at 10:44 am

im one of the people who were chosen at random… and i just wanna say that i dont like it… but for the people who do, why not give us the option of choosing?

David Wisniewski | November 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

I am one of the “random testers,” and have decided that, for the duration of this “process” – and I use the term loosely, since most processes have a predetermined result or goal, as well as an estimated time to completion – I will be changing my homepage to msn. They at least let us CHOOSE whether we want our entire homepage flipped around from the way it was to a new, redundant, evil twin version.
I will be surprised if I am the only user Yahoo! loses during this test.
Can’t get a mail preview by resting the mouse over the mail icon, can’t move the mouse without activating some ad that intrudes on my page, can’t get straight to my mail by simply clicking on the mail icon (one of the more ridiculous changes), and can’t go back to the way things were.
It wasn’t broke. You shouldn’t try to fix it.

eknirb | November 4th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

well..it’s disappeared, old page back. uh…OK. I am the one person who LIKES it- can we have another go?

Kelly | November 5th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

This new Yahoo SUCKS completely.

Tom | November 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

The new home page sucks!
Give back the old one or I will go to a different provider.

Mr. X | November 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

this new site sucks, I hate the “interface” if you want to call it that, with yahoo mail…it’s now more clicks to get to my mail from the homepage, and i can’t switch back and forth as easily. I don’t like that I can’t “opt out” of this new trial page….IT BLOWS!

Dennis Thomsen | November 6th, 2008 at 8:52 am

The new website should have been tested by volunteers, not force fed to a randomly selected group of Yahoo users. I find this new experience TOTALLY unsatisfactory. I have been told I was randomly selected to try this beta homepage and there is no option to return to the previous Yahoo homepage. That being said I will probably opt to drop Yahoo altogether as I do not like being held hostage to a test. I am writing this using careful language, but all the four letter invectives apply here Yahoo. Stick it where the sun doesn’t shine! I will be moving to Google in the future, you are forcing me to go to the competition.

elizabeth custer | November 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am

I really dislike the new page and am very disappointed that, without my permission, it has become permanent with no option to change.
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None of the changes benefit me. I only have one email account. I hate the big ad. I hate that the news icon changes places.

I also do not like that I have to go through an extra step to get to my email. It takes me longer to get there and I have gotten used to zooming to it.

I just feel like Yahoo is beign very unfair. I have had Yahoo as my email address and home page for almost seven years. I have been through a lot of changes with them. I am not a technophobe and I don’t fear change. I just feel like it shoudln’t be forced on anyone, even if they are in your random sample group. It would have been really nice to have been asked.

I realize that I don’t pay for Yahoo as it is a free service. Therefore, the threat to go elsewhere is useless. However, I did use it for EVERYTHING! Now I find myself going to other sites for information.

I love Yahoo. I just wish that I had a chance to know about this ahead of time.

Thank you.

Jason and Yvonne | November 6th, 2008 at 11:11 am

This is very annoying.
My wife and I spent days trying to figure out why some of the computers where going to this mysterious page while others were not.
In the future you should post information on the page itself or a pop up so folks know whats going on.
You should also have a pop up to give you the choice of trying out the new page.
I have been with yahoo for 16 years- i have enjoyed some of the greatest innovations as well as seem some real stinkers.
The problem i have with this homepage you are testing out, is that i want to be able to customize it, i could care didly about some of the choices you put…
Stocks-Horoscopes-Movies…give me a break, please make it so you can add what you like to show on the left.
Also give up on that Yahoo 360 and revitalize the geocities sites again or combine them and make something that can blow out myspace.

seriouslt annoyed yahoo user | November 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

It absolutely sucks. I can’t even a way to get the old home page back. It was fun while it lasted. Goodbye Yahoo. You burned the last bridge down.

Chad | November 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

I love how user-friendly and fun the designs of Yahoo have been and continue to be. They really do continually think of ways to cater to their users…bravo! Hope I’m one of the lucky test subjects. :-)

Patricia Butkus | November 6th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Change always takes time getting used to. I was very familiar and comfortable with the old site. I’ve been “stumbling around” abit. I especially miss the holiday animations at the top of the page!
Other than that, the site works for me.

Dennis Thomsen | November 6th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

You might appreciate my patience and understanding (asked for in an email response) but you should have asked for it first. So effective a few minutes ago I have switch to MSN for a homepage. I will return to using the Yahoo hompage when you email me to make the old homepage available. I am not willing to be a test subject for your new beta. Moments ago I changed to MSN. That is a done deal. Your Nazi type approach is totally unacceptable in this day and age of marketing. The customer should always come first. Did I mention I’m a psychologist. Your marketing people must have failed to earn a degree.
Dennis

awwwman | November 6th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

This UTTERLY sucks! I am usually not picky about these things, however the purple stuff is annoying and the inflated design makes me feel like an idiot. Please go back to the previous design; stop wrecking my favorite homepage dayyyyum! Ok, now i’m clearing my cookies, hehehe.

Dennis | November 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am

Curiously, the suggestion to delete cookies and return to the old Yahoo was not offered by Yahoo Help or customer service. Possibly they did not know there was a solution for unwilling customers to escape this test. I removed cookies and thought it had not worked only to discover the old homepage was available when I turned my computer back on later in the day. I was happy to see I could have my old Yahoo back (I have Yahoo toolbar since its inception and can just click on the Yahoo icon), but I had already changed my homepage to MSN and think I will stay there until I get an apology from Yahoo for messing with my computer without permission. The idiots in marketing need to rethink there approach to testing a beta. Haven’t sold my Yahoo stock yet, but the thought has occurred.

Gary | November 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

Boy! I can’t wait to enjoy your soon-to-be-released new homepage. Maybe I’ll have as much fun on it as I do on your MASH site. No , wait, y’all discontinued your new social site after touting it for a year, throwing away all my comments and friends.

I know, I’ll use as much as I use my 360 page. No, wait, your 360 social site eats comments and times out when trying to go to other 360 homepages. You know, 360, the place where problems haven’t been addressed by tech support in over a year because they’re busy developing MASH . . . that doesn’t exist any more.

Nevermind, suddenly I not so excited.

Smith | November 8th, 2008 at 5:15 am

First this new yahoo popped up at work randomly and now at home. None of my co-workers like it and neither do I. It has all been said so hopefully Yahoo will not make changes or will figure out how to check mail without having to click several links. I really like the old site better. Hate is a strong word so I’ll just say that I really don’t like this new version at all.

marty | November 8th, 2008 at 5:50 am

i got stuck with this after being a loyal yahoo customer for years. its horrible. why change what made you what you are. great move! i will find a new service. any suggestions? i hate purple!

david | November 8th, 2008 at 7:24 am

This is garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just one more change to have to keep up with. My other PCs in the house all have the the old site and I am being forced to use the new site after having to do a full refresh because some degenerate punk(s) created malware to create havoc for the rest of civilized world now I have to deal with this! Time to switch to msn or google WE DO HAVE OTHER CHOICES YAHOO.

Samadardin | November 8th, 2008 at 8:14 am

This “test” that yahoo has decided to make without the users consent reminds me of the time The Goizueta took over the Coca-Cola Company and decided to replace its flagship product with a new sweeter tasting one called “new coke” without their consumers consent. The backlash was strong and coke nearly went under. Does not failed marketing history tell the brains at yahoo anything?

What in the hell do you people think the reaction would be when you become so arrogant when you decide to treat your customer with so little respect to not even ask them what they want?

Seems I will have to do what I did back in 1985…suck it in and switch over to another brand that doesn’t try to force a product down my throat…and I don’t even like MSN, but that seems to be where you will be sending me.

Jason | November 8th, 2008 at 9:41 am

This new front page is Hot garbage. When something works…YOU ****ING LEAVE IT THAT WAY. People have been using the old page for almost forever now and now you want to “myspacify” your page…even sites like myspace let you retain the old look. If you guys do end up changing the front page then it’s bye bye and hello Gmail.

Deborah Metzger | November 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am

I’m moving my homepage to my local newspaper. I’ll only have to deal with this new yahoo page when I do my weekly e-mail check.

LD | November 8th, 2008 at 11:00 am

I HATE HATE HATE The M.
WHen I go to type another address in the address bar it screws me up every time. makes it so I have to retype the WWW part. Yes It is lazy, but the M has to go!!!

Amanda | November 8th, 2008 at 9:40 pm

This is the WORST layout ever!! I hate it, you actually have to bookmark your email page or go thru the hassle of clicking a bunch of crap to get to it, and what happened to answers! Its not even attractive, just confusing cuz everything is the same size

missy | November 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

Ok, lets see I did not volunteer to test this new page. And I resent being tossed into your unsupecting test group, but I have been using it for at least past month maybe, give or take a week, and I must say “I Hate It”. You should have let your user opt into the testing phase of the new page. That being said, here is what I think everything is to slow takes way too long to load, switchng between pages and back to the homepage has slowed considerably, if the whole page doesnt load and I click on a link I want to reach from the main page it just stops and does nothing till the main page has finished loading. I dont like having to click on something else to read an entire news article, waste of my time, if I went to the article it must mean I wanted to see the whole thing not have to click something else and wait till it loaded. I have not liked Yahoo for a very long time but, it has been my home page since Yahoo came into exsistance, so I have been thru your many changes good or bad, not many people have been using the internet since the days when you only had a few providers and paid by the minute and it was text based and no graphics. Yahoo should have asked and I am sure they would have many jump at the chance to test and give good opinions.

My thoughts are:
1. Tell people how to opt out (just delete your cookies folks) yes I know that defeats your purposes of having many opinions, but you get less complaining this way.

2. Fix things that havent worked for a few years on Yahoo (email me and I will give you my list of things)

3. Bring back a few things that you have removed or the years or at least make them easier to access them they might get more use.

4. The layout is not pleasing to the eye to look at, the colors are awful looking, one would hope each individual can customize the page to suit their needs when all is said and done.

5. I dont like the ads either, too big and if you just scroll by qucikly to get down to the news or other things lower down, the ads zip right open, and you have to stop and take extra time to close the ad or it slows the down the process totally, no need for this at all.

I remember an old adage “if it aint broken, dont fix it”, you are going to drive more people away from yahoo to other competitors. If you fix the little problems first that make the site easy to access and use then you may win back some who have left. Sometimes the newest and flashiest are not always the best, ease of use and dependability will keep coming back time and time again.

missy | November 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Just another thought before I go and find a new homepage. Why was this implemented in this way? I guess most of your designer and techies are not old enough to remember the early days of the internet, the days of linux based sites and no graphics, everything you did was text based. This heavyhanded technique of slamming unsuspecting users into beta testing a new product is something Microsoft would do. This is not something I had come to expect Yahoo to do, you had a very easy, user friendly product and you go and pull nonsense like this. And like the changes in the users profiles you implemented just a short time ago, your tech support tells users “no you cant switchback to the older version”. You are just pushing your loyal customers away, you lost many in that snafu, and will undoubtly lose more with this blunder. Fix the other problems on Yahoo before you try to make a major change like this. Get someone with commonsense in there before you totally lose the Yahoo brand identity, that your loyal base has come to know.

DW | November 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

I have been a Yahoo fan for years, but thanks to being selected as a random test subject for a homepage layout I detest, I am now switching my homepage to Google.

Isaac | November 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am

Actually, isn’t that the MOBILE Yahoo? To get rid of it on your laptop just delete your cookies and you’ll be back to the regular Yahoo! I think the m.yahoo.com version is for users who use their cell phones to browse.

JP | November 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

If you want to switch back to the old Yahoo site, just delete
the cookies they placed on your computer. If you can’t find the
ones they added, just delete all “cookies”.
The use of a cookie is how Yahoo is tagging a particular
computer for their testing. Why they didn’t offer a little button
that would allow you to switch to and from on the fly, is beyond me! Who ever is in charge of marketing at Yahoo is really
doing some damage.

John Y | November 11th, 2008 at 8:33 am

I hate the new homepage! The old homepage is much easier to navigate and is easier on the eyes with the subdued colors, get rid of the new home page it looks a mess!

jeff | November 11th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

I hate MYahoo and want my old yahoo back! How do I do that?

John Schiefelbein | November 11th, 2008 at 3:57 pm

I HATE THIS NEW HOMEPAGE!!!! I don’t like the dark colors and I want my old homepage back on my computer NOW! I don’t want to be part of your test!!! John S.

Darrell aka. Hermitbiker | November 11th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Ok, I’ve seen what the other’s have to say and I do not agree at all!! I want to keep testing the new homepage, I want it back for me to use and explore further as you add to it.

For me, the new homepage was better,cleaner,less clutter and downloaded much faster than the existing one. Everything about it was faster for me with my slow connection.

I want the other people to keep what they like and are comfortable with.

I want the new page sent back to me for further testing and to use as MY Homepage. I want to explore the future and not dwell in the present !!

Thanks !!

Bennie A | November 12th, 2008 at 4:20 am

Thank you so much everyone for the tip on deleting cookies. That really worked.

I hate the new Yahoo, too, and am not happy that they have forced random users to use the new site, including me, and will not give us the simple solution themselves on how to get the old page back. If they go to this new page and we do not have an option to use the old page, I will certainly change frou AT&T as my DSL provider to something else that will not require me to look at that horrible, horrible new site.

jbrocks | November 12th, 2008 at 8:20 am

Please listen to your users. This new design looks terrible. The left side bar is a complete waste of screen space. People want content, not a big tab bar wasting %20 of their screen space. Google already forced this left sidebar on their users and most of them hate it also. I quit using Google as a starting page for now because ot that new sidebar and will quit Yahoo if you do the same. The giant ad needs to go also, or at least make it smaller and moveable so those of us who do not click on ads can avoid having to looks at that annoyance. There are other starting pages out there like Netvibes and Pageflakes that are pretty good and if you keep forcing unwanted changes and ads upon your users, they will start switching to those other start pages, which will continually get better through competition.

Keep tabs limited to going across the top of the page as they currently are and are barely noticable and make the add moveable and smaller and you might get back to number one. Yahoo and Google were both startups once and are prone to fall into oblivion if they don’t get their act together. There are and will be plenty of new startups waiting in the wings to be the next big Homepage for users.

Yahoo,

Get back to your roots and listen to the people and put out what they want, not what you think they are going to want.

Julia | November 12th, 2008 at 9:45 am

I had access to the new Yahoo homepage and I found it very practical to be able to access my non-yahoo e-mail accounts in one place. I also like the design & layout –love the Purple Yahoo!

Now I miss it! I hope that it will be available soon!

Helen R. Eakin | November 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am

First I set up a special recognition picture so I’d know when logging in that I was in the real Yahoo!.com for my E-mail. This has worked maybe 60% of the time, so it’s just caused me more stress than reassurance.

Your advice has always been to make sure I’m in the real Yahoo!.com so I’ve spent a lot of time carefully entering the correct http://www.yahoo.com when my identification picture doesn’t come up. I’ve had no way to know if I’m in the right place or not.

Now you’re redirecting me with no notice to http://www.m.yahoo!.com??? Are you just trying to make sure I go elsewhere and take a lot of my friends with me. STOP IT!!! JUST ADDS TO MY INSECURITY!!!!

Nate Andrews | November 12th, 2008 at 10:56 am

My first internet experiences started with Y!
My first email account was a Yahoo Mail account, I only used Yahoo for scouring the internet. However, that was years ago.

Today, I use Gmail, Google Search, Google Docs, etc. Google ads are less prominent (read: annoying and intrusive), and the entire experience is fast and simple. I have recently tried the “new” Yahoo Mail and am still put off. Yahoo wants to toss in every single feature possible, creating a slow and clunky UI with a bogged down interface.

What would it take for me to come back to Yahoo!? I do love how Yahoo! is fighting for it’s independence, everyone loves a true underdog story but there has to be something more. I remember years ago a “Yahoo! Premium” push- paying extra for premium services. Why not apply that approach to the entire site? I know that idea went out the window with Terry Semel, but I would gladly pay a little extra to use the main page, mail, calendar, etc. without the annoying (seriously- I don’t understand how a break-dancing zombie ties into getting a better mortgage) ads that clutter the experience. You could also try to take out some features- I hear the collective gasps right now. But if simplicity is obviously working for Google, why not piggy-back on that trend? I logged into Mail the other day to see a bar with my non-existing calendar appointments on it, another area with today’s top news stories, and another with a large placement about today’s weather.

If Yahoo! wants to shove their content and services upon it’s users- at least offer them the option to opt-in on which ones they want. Yahoo! mastered the “My” trend, do the same for mail. I’m betting that Mail is still the #1 most used property in your quickly sinking ship- use that to your advantage. In offering a “My Yahoo! Mail” service, I could say, “Yes, I’d love a 5 day forecast”, or opt out for the over sized forecast bar with something more useful to me- perhaps some shortcuts to other services I use frequently.

I am not one of those bitter users that felt left out when Yahoo! changed years ago, I would be devastated to see Yahoo! go to the big yodel in the sky (or acquired by a serial monopolist), but SMART changes like mine and those proposed by others are what is needed to maintain an excellent experience for all of your users- not just a homepage revamp that will go only so far.
Change your interfaces and experiences from the ground up, not top down- and the customers will start coming again.

P.S. (I seriously would be willing to come back to Yahoo! if there are a “Premium Ad-Free Yahoo!” tiered system. Mail? $10 per year. Calendar? Another $5.. Do not throw away money users are willing to spend)

Sk | November 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am

I hate it. I wished there was an option to return and that I was asked if I would like to be used as a tester before it was just dropped on me like that. To me the page looks terrible. I’ve also lost my sign in seal….SUCKS!

Kirk | November 13th, 2008 at 11:31 am

I hate this new look and it is not easy to use as the previous home page. Switch me back to the old one!

codergirl | November 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

HATED the new page. I changed it back to the old one. I don’t want to use more keystrokes or mouse clicks to get to my sign in to check email. If you go with this new page I’ll give up yahoo.

Kellie | November 13th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

TERRIBLE!! Just like everyone else, I don’t appreciate being thrown into something I didn’t sign up for. I hate this new yahoo and want my old one back. I tried deleting my cookies, but it didn’t work. Maybe I should try again? Yahoo, PLLEASE change back to your old ways or let us have the option, so everyone that wants the new yahoo can try it for themselves and see how AWFUL it is. If it doesn’t change back soon, I’ll be forced to change my homepage to another website.

Kellie | November 13th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Update: I X’ed out of internet explorer, and when I clicked it again, my old version came up!!

To all the people that posted this amazing advice: THANK YOU!! (Tools—>Internet options—>Delete Cookies=OLD YAHOO!!)

sara | November 13th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

I do not like this new yahoo! It makes it very difficult to get to my mail. not a fan!

db | November 13th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

this new yahoo page is a dismal failure… with increase color and space with out intuitive thoughfull interface design or increase usefull content

i think the ex-bush admin personel must have designed it because you dont have an option to revert back to the old page. akin to shoving it down someones throat

you understand the if you have to force someone to do something it most likely wont be a sucess.

please give us an option to old yahoo page that have served us well for some many delightfull years.

db

Maurine | November 13th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

This is really pissing me off! I like my stuff the way I have it and to redirect me with no recourse is not the way to keep a user. If you must redirect for the purpose of showing people or testing or whatever, fine. But, once they have been to the page, let them OUT!

James | November 13th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

I used http://www.Yahoo.com to get a quick, immediate pulse on the world’s top news headlines in ONE FAST GLANCE. I don’t screw with reading the newspaper, I don’t watch the TV news regularly, I only want to know the most major things occurring in the nation and world.

m.www.yahoo.com?

I see nothing but celebrity news (feature) and useless human interest stories. I don’t want that crap. I want the important major national and world headlines top-front-center.

I’m clearing my cookies to get the old page back, but it I’ll also be looking to home-page another site where fluff doesn’t rule.

Nats | November 13th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

I like the Old Yahoo…

Jess | November 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

I HATE the new page. How can I change it back? I’m getting ready to find a new home page. The things I use the most (movies.yahoo.com & yellow pages) are now “hidden.”

Heather | November 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

I agree with all the haters! This page sucks and as an Yahooian for over a decade, I do not appreciate being thrown into a test. Some folks might like it, but it would have been nice to be asked first. I will switch if need be, but having to click 7 times to get to my email is annoying. I wrote to Yahoo to ask how to get the old page back and they said “At this point it is not an option.” Great customer service…..

Gary | November 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

I have used Yahoo as my home page since 2400 baud modems were the norm. However, if this new homepage becomes standard I will never use Yahoo again.

Lisa | November 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am

I HATE IT – I am most p***ed that they changed this on me without my permission and will not allow me to change it back. I do not want to be one of the chosen testers. I HATE IT and I am switching my homepage to something non-yahoo and will not be using yahoo anymore for anything.

Pump | November 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Unwarranted Intrusion Into My Life

It was with great dismay that I discovered I was part of an unwilling “bucket” test group of the new Yahoo homepage. I found I could not get the original homepage back unless I BLOCKED the m.www.yahoo.com site. Then the original homepage returned, but then I could not reach my Email.

For those of you wondering what happened, look to CNET for the answer. Here is a pertinent website: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10062224-93.html

I have been with Yahoo a long time, and been an ardent supporter. Apparently, they could not care less.

Now I find I may have to leave yahoo completely and find a more friendly environment that will not foist upon me what I do not want and never asked for. I will not be toyed with. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate!

Larry | November 17th, 2008 at 7:49 am

We don’t like the change since it makes it harder to enter a website address. In the past we could delete everything to the right of the WWW and enter the web adress. Not any more and we don’t likke it!

si-tech | November 17th, 2008 at 9:49 am

this completely sucks being thrown into a test bed for yahoo! why aren’t these idiots giving us a choice like with their crappy ‘improved’ yahoo! mail?

Wendy R | November 17th, 2008 at 10:17 am

I am all for upgrading and changes on web pages that need updating but I am sorry to say I really hate the homepage changes. I don’t like the layout and when I sign in to my mail using the apps on the left side, more often than not it does not work. I then have to go to one of the other computers in my house to sign in! I have been a yahoo mail user since about 1997, I say keep the yahoo classic page for those of us who want it and let us have a choice just as you have with mail.

If it isn’t broke don’t fix it. Again I do not like the main page any more and wish I wasn’t on the test list. I like my yahoo classic!

si-tech | November 17th, 2008 at 10:21 am

for those of us that don’t use anything but the yahoo! mail service, set the mail login screen as the, or one of, your homepages. no more m.yahoo.com!!!

gotcha yahoo! and if you wanna continue pissing off people we WILL use our Gmail account more.

Maria Villasenor | November 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am

I GOT Tested last night with the new look. I was really started to see it as my homepage, but working around with it I loved the new e-mailing feature “One easy check-in point.” I liked the look, alot sleeker than the current one, with a bold blue statement, but I wish it looked more pristine. So keep at it Yahoo & co.

Maria Villasenor | November 17th, 2008 at 11:07 am

p.s. I loved the easy access to news, the Barack Obama 2.0: NO Email by nytimes.com on your new testing design was super easyily access, took me straight to NYTimes for the news feed.

irishgarden | November 17th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

I had the new Yahoo homepage briefly….would like to have it back…

Nadir | November 17th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

I cant wait.
This looks so sweet.

Ryan | November 18th, 2008 at 5:15 am

I do not like the new look. I wish you guys would pick someone else to test this new page on. I will use msn for my homepage until you go back to the way it was. I want my old yahoo homepage back please. It is very frustrating for me. The my apllications tool bar on the left side is too big and has nothing useful for me on it. I don’t use it at all. Look at all the wasted space underneath the tool bar apps on the screen shot you have shown us. Please go back to the old look.

Used to use Yahoo | November 18th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

I hate your new portal. Keep “fixing” it up, keep “fixing” what hadn’t been broke–up to now. Yahoo sucks. Long live Google.

Mohammed Sajin | November 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

Every thing is ok, but for yahoo answersthere is no direct link.

Chris | November 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am

Hi,
My Girlfriend is in the same home as I & her Home page
did not change.
I want mine back to the way it was, this one SUCKS !!
I don’t like the way it set up & I am not interested in it.
If this is the way your Home Page is going to stay ?,
you will lose customers, starting with me.
Sorry

John S | November 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am

For anyone that has received the new Yahoo Home Page as a test (http://m.www.yahoo.com) and wishes to revert back to the previous version of the Yahoo Home Page (http://www.yahoo.com)don‘t be fooled by the people at Yahoo. They will tell you that there currently is no option available to revert from this test page back to the previous version (please note the “m.” designation in the test page web address). There is a simple step to revert back to the previous version of the home page. All you have to do is delete your web browser history (including cookies), close out your web browser, then re-open your web browser to connect to the internet. You should be back to the previous version of the Yahoo home page. Please note that the “m.” designation in the web address should no longer appear.

Wendy R | November 19th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

Note to John S: it did not work for me to clear out cookies, etc…I set my Firefox to delete them every time I close out of Firefox. What did work for me though was setting my home page to the yahoo mail sign in page. Then when I clicked the Yahoo link wahla the old classic yahoo page was back and was able to reset my home page….just like an old comfy slipper!

JWB | November 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am

Now that I finally called tech support (re-routed from tech e-mail submission on your site to AT&T who knew nothing of this, forcing me to finally investigate a little bit on my own)I am so relieved that my computer wasn’t hacked or something, that I could care less what the page looks like. You could have saved me some worry and procrastination about this mysterious web address and the coincidental disappearance of my sign-in symbol on that computer by putting some kind of link to this informational page – like – “notice something different?” Maybe you did and I didn’t notice anything on the new page because I was too worried about a phantom re-direct of your site, on my laptop!

Karina | November 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am

I don’t like the new layout AT ALL. And I hate that fact that I’m forced to use this new layout without any option to revert back. I essentially had to clear my cache and cookies first. You guys needs to hire better UI designers to do a better job. The left nav bar is so dark that is distracting, and then all information is just afloat! Where is your information hierarchy?

Tim | November 20th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

At least its not a trojan horse as I feared at first. I will stop using yahoo at all if I am not allowed to log into yahoo without being redirected to this damn m.www.yahoo.com page(I have had my primary email address for 12 years). I did not even notice what was going on until I started trying to get to the old homepage because I could not find the common links.

LET ME OUT NOW!

Dave | November 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

This is really stupid. Why wouldn’t you give people a choice before cramming this lame homepage test down their throats.

Very obnoxious of you to assume that the new homepage is so wonderful, that there is no way that anybody would dislike it.

Bad form, Yahoo.

adolfo | November 20th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

thanks John S for the help. It worked, I got my old yahoo homepage back.

Sam | November 21st, 2008 at 7:30 am

I want my old homepage back. Do not like the application on left side or anything about it!

J.P. | November 21st, 2008 at 9:50 am

Get me out of this crappy ‘M’ Yahoo page. If I wanted to be a Guinea Pig, I’d volunteer.
PLEASE!!!!!

Steve | November 21st, 2008 at 11:03 am

I HATE the new page and the fact that I had no idea why it hijacked my browser without prior warning. I have used yahoo for my home page for many years and I WILL be changing to something else if you keep this new layout.

Dawn | November 21st, 2008 at 11:04 am

I do not appreciate you changing my homepage. I want to go back to the old home page. I strongly agree with J.P. Nov 21, 2008 at 9:50. I did not ask for this and do not want to be your Guinea Pig!!!!!

Dawn | November 21st, 2008 at 11:09 am

Thank you John S. It worked.

Sea | November 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Add me to the chorus — the new page is NOT an improvement !!!! Way more clicking to get to email, no easy preview. It’s been very frustrating. I finally changed my homepage to my MyYahoo page but I don’t really like that as well as the old Yahoo homepage either.

My new home page may very well be Google and my primary email address may VERY SOON be my gmail acct … all because of this kidnap job by Yahoo. I’ve had my email with Yahoo since 1997 and I really don’t want to change but … GET A CLUE, YAHOOO –WE HATE IT!!! TIme to end the test!

robs | November 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm

please help me change it back to the classic view.

Ruth Fenchel | November 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 am

Both myself and my husband have been using Yahoo as our home page for years on our home computers as well as at work. Now with out our permission you change your page on one of our computers with out notifying us you were going to do so. There is so much wrong with your new page
as others are pointing out that it would take to much of
our time to list it all, such as everything is to large,
to disjointed, to disorginized, to much time wasted in,
trying to get from one place to another. You had the best
site going, it is sad that you feel the need to change it
for the sake of just changing something. If it is not broke why change it. Because you did not notifiy us we
spent a great deal of our time trying to change back to the original page. This was very inconsiderate and poor
customer service. If this change persists we will not be
using Yahoo as our home page or search engine ever again.

Bill Heise | November 22nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

I do NOT like being FORCED to myahoo.com. It SUCKS BIG TIME!!! I hope there is a class action lawsuit I can join for invasion of privacy!! Bring back my OLD Yahoo please!!

Sam | November 22nd, 2008 at 4:08 pm

How can I get rid of this new look of Yahoo? I don’t like it. Doesn’t seem professional at all. I don’t know, somehow I like the old one better. I’m used to it. Does anyone know how I can get back to original Yahoo page?

Jen | November 22nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm

Listen to the users, Yahoo. We hate the new home page. At least give us the option to choose the older one if we prefer it. This sucks.

Gina | November 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm

The layout is ugly. My sister thinks so too.

TJ Powell | November 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm

JUST USE:

http://209.191.93.52/

as your home page instead of “www.yahoo.com” (which will re-direct). That should allow you to bypass the DNS servers and takes you right to the “old” Yahoo home page. You can always use “ping” to find the URL.

BTW: I do not like the new site and I HATE the fact that Yahoo switched out my page without notice. This is BS and is why Google News is now my home page.

John L. | November 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 am

Hi, I am one of those who is chosen to have this new yahoo webpage. I have used the old yahoo webpage for a long time and am already very used to it. I am still not used to this new one. Please, can you remove me from being one of the random people chosen and revert my yahoo page to the old http://www.yahoo.com? I would very much appreciate it if you consider my request. May I suggest that you could provide a tutorial in the old yahoo page regarding this new one, and that those who want to change to the new one may do so, while those who wish to stay with the old one may choose to stay with it?

Thank you for your time in reading this and I would very much appreciate it if you consider my request and my suggestion.

Sincerely,
John L.

tommy | November 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 am

I concur with most bloggerS and I suspect most yahoo users, this new page is terrible not user-friendly… I’m all for change but this is for the worst.

PLEASE GIVE US BACK OUR CLASSIC VERSION!

Chris | November 23rd, 2008 at 8:16 am

The Ups. Less stuff at first for the page to lode, nice color used and eBay is on the page. The Downs. No business world ext news on the page big, takes long to lode stuff such as eMail on the side. Overall Keep trying. I think it is getting there

Mark | November 23rd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

My parents computer is being rerouted to the new m.yahoo.com and the thing is all screwed up. What on earth are you folks doing. 80% of the links (i.e. sports, news, etc.) do not come up in the correct format. Again, what are you doing. I will give you 1 week to get them back to the old version or fix the new one or we are moving on. Congrats on losing customers and more importantly potential advertising sales. I will short the Yahoo stock tomorrow.

Rebecca | November 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Yahoo will not and does not listen to its users. One of the reasons they are in trouble, IMO. The guide they had was pretty decent but they changed that and for over a year NOT ONE POSITIVE comment (among thousands of comments) was posted in their feedback, yet they did nothing. It’s still a buggy, wonky system.

I have loved and used Yahoo! from the beginning and I even pay for the upgraded service and I still had this horrible page forced upon me.

I hate this page and I will be quitting Yahoo! permanently because I know they will not listen to what their users have to say.

gg | November 24th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

I want my old yahoo homepage back. The new page sucks

David Lorkiewicz | November 24th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

How do I get this new yahoo front page now? I had it for about a day, but I deleted the cookies and went back to the old yahoo. I need it back, it was so cool! I teach Discrete Math at a high school and love to show this to my students.

Jane Bitch | November 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

I F**KING HATE THIS SITE. Stop changing things that aren’t broken.

charles tattersall | November 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Imposing this new website format upon unwilling customers is arrogant and improper. I am stuck with this new Yahoo page on my office computer, I cannot get rid of it, and I hate it. Yahoo knock it off!

LBergsnev | November 25th, 2008 at 8:10 am

I hate this. I liked the old one. the new one is slow too, I think. Enough with the large ads and things and jump around and move (and kill my remaining eyesite) not to mention eat up my memory. Is is a plot to make us upgrade our PC’s every six months?

mike mcbratney | November 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

The new homepage is so gay.Looks like a kiddie page.Leave it alone……….

Mike | November 25th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

I will no longer be using yahoo as my homepage due to the changes thrust upon me.

Anne Wardlow | November 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

Is anyone at Yahoo listening? It looks like 95% hate the new home page (count me in that group).

I just got added to the test group recently and my computer has been dead slow ever since. I have to click 3 places to get to my yahoo mail! Why are you making it harder to get to yahoo mail? If I cared about aol, I would have an aol account! Also, I used to use yahoo to keep an eye on the news and stock market throughout the day. Now, the market numbers aren’t there. This new page was probably designed by people too young to have an interest in how the markets are doing!

Why is yahoo ignoring these comments? Okay, so you wasted alot of time developing a new page. That is NOT a reason to impose it on your users who just don’t want it. Go back to the drawing board, or just cut your budget and keep things as they are, which is what your users want.

Nathan Hale | November 26th, 2008 at 7:36 am

HERE IS HOW TO GET OUT OF IT :) Reset your browser and wipe the cookies. you can also selectively delete any cookie from yahoo. probably a good idea to wipe the preloaded icons and the history at the same time. I didn’t care about anything in my list of cookies so I just reset safari out right and bam! back to the classic yahoo.

Rick | November 26th, 2008 at 8:17 am

No one in my family likes it. In fact, if we can’t get rid of that lousy “M-Yahoo” we’re switching to another homepage for sure. It’s terrible.

Chris | November 26th, 2008 at 7:36 pm

I wish you would give everyone the OPTION to try it, I’d like to. Even though everyone else is beating the hell outta you, I’d still like the opportunity. When will you open it up?

Ifiok | November 26th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

I don’t know why you guys insist on changing things for those of us who are not interested. I have had Yahoo for years and this is what I get?

Guys deleting cookies works, just did it after getting frustrated with the Yahoo new homepage!

Absolute rubbish in my opinion!!!

Patrick | November 27th, 2008 at 7:04 am

1. I don’t want to login to check the weather which the new one requires me to do.

2. Why does the finance section keep losing my quotes. I never clear it when I close the browser but it keeps disappearing so that I have to type them in again.

3. Another problem is that I used to work for a company that used your mail services. I have since left but their email address is still in one of my folders. I’ve looked everywhere and can’t figure out how to get rid of them.

mike | November 27th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

change back to the old page, this one sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lee | November 27th, 2008 at 7:37 pm

Way too much overhead. It’s great on my fast computer, but not even usable on the one in our family room, where the whole family does most of out browsing and searching. This HAS to be driving people away from using your site. If the ads don’t load, you can’t see them, anyway.

Raul | November 28th, 2008 at 4:01 am

Big mistake by Yahoo.
I dislike the new look 100%. But what pissed me off the most is that I have no way back. It could have been optional, but instead I was forced without a way out.
I was not sure if it was a malicious website or what?
I contacted Yahoo many times and they refuse to let me out. So, I am letting them go. TOTAL LACK OF ANY DECENT CUSTOMER SERVICE. I have been a long time Yahoo customer, but now they are loosing another client.
YAHOO, YOU SUCK!!! You should listen to your customers.
I guess you are tied to Obama’s socialist and communist ideas and just like Obama want to decide what is better for us. We still (for now) live in a capitalist society where free-enterprise dictates the market. Now, your market is going somewhere else. You did not listen to us.

Mona Montgomery | November 28th, 2008 at 10:56 am

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Jon | October 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pm. I delted my cookies and I got rid of the b*stard.

Shelly | November 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am

Hey People!!! LISTEN UP!! If you had the time to read all the blogging above…you would have FOUND THE ANSWER to all our Yahoo problems…well, at least one major one…that troublesome “m” in the URL that RUINED all of our Yahoo homepages. I will be just one more voice that will attempt to RESCUE YOU from that d**n awful “new” homepage…
DELETE YOUR COOKIES!!!!! DELETE YOUR COOKIES!!!!
GO TO “TOOLS” then “INTERNET OPTIONS” then “BROWSING HISTORY” then hit “DELETE” then ” DELETE COOKIES” close down your browser and open up again to your “new” OLD YAHOO!
Whallah DONE!!!

roxy | November 28th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

I really don’t think this is a good idea. You should keep the old one. ;)

roxy | November 28th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

I dont like this one :(

roxy | November 28th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I agree with the haters, ROCK ON HATERS!!

Linda | November 28th, 2008 at 7:49 pm

Deleting the cookies may work on IE, but it doesn’t on Firefox. Bless TJ Powell, above, for this posting, which bears repeating:

“JUST USE:

http://209.191.93.52/

as your home page instead of “www.yahoo.com” (which will re-direct). That should allow you to bypass the DNS servers and takes you right to the “old” Yahoo home page. You can always use “ping” to find the URL.”

It works! Thank you, thank you!

And Yahoo, if you ever check this board again — the new home page SUCKS OUT LOUD!

Boyd Gavin | November 29th, 2008 at 12:06 am

I HATE the new yahoo page! I want serious news “above the fold”. I do not give a damn about Beyonce or horoscopes!! Why tempt fate when your corporation’s already teetering on the brink???

John | November 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

I really like my old yahoo.com home page. It flows very well. Too bad I can’t get to it. This test page is not to my liking at all. Like Chris said, you should give us the option to “opt out” of this research. I just found out what the situation is and I might be stuck with this “test home page” for a long time. I don’t like being “volunteered”. At least give the people an option. I’m sure you would get plenty of legitimate volunteers. OHHH! Ifiok, I just read what you said about the cookies… Thanks.

Ant | November 29th, 2008 at 8:30 pm

I spent so much time trying to change it back to the old one.

Well, thanks for changing it without asking.

JohnA | November 30th, 2008 at 7:48 am

I was automatically given the new Yahoo page. I have since set the http://209.191.93.52/ URL given above as my home page. I used the new Yahoo for approximately a week, and I tried to enjoy it, but it simply misses the reasons why I use yahoo. Specifically, getting the weather now takes an additional few steps (I like detailed, 5 day forecast with one click) and is much slower. The mail link on the left to have the mail in the middle of the screen is terrible and slow, so I used the one on the right, but this is small and obnoxious. Many of the other elements also seem quite poor, and every time you make a page element that expands, moves, etc, does two things: 1, slows it down, and 2, annoys people’s eyes etc.

I suggest that the focus and study groups you base these changes on are a limited demographic, as they are the ones who choose to participate in your study groups. Please refrain from making the new Yahoo permanent.

Kman | November 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am

I HATE it – been using http://www.yahoo.com as my default webpage for something like 10 years or so and am so used to double-clicking on the “yahoo” and typing in a directing domain….now that you’ve forcefully slammed in an “m.” and there’s apparently no way to revert back to the simpler url…..guess what? I’m forced to find another homepage….which means the 5 yahoo-hosted domains I have, and the bizmail email account are now similarly a pain to get to….so it’s probably time to reconsider all those business dealings I have maintained with yahoo over many years. Granted, I’m not a high-volume guy, but you couldn’t (could not have been the operative words here) have found a more loyal paying customer,….bye bye yahoo and thanks for being a great model for how to shoot oneself in their own foot. Well done.

cj | November 30th, 2008 at 9:08 am

I am very upset that I was not asked to change to this new look. I thought I was hacked at first due to my work computer being the classic view. I do not like this view, I do not like it that I was not asked if I want to change, I do not like yahoo at this point thinking that they can just change it on a whim. If they mentioned a new look was coming then I could prepare for it but just to be tossed in the mix, that pisses me off! I want the classic back! NOW!

cj | November 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Just to add to my disliking of the new site that you think way better and will help all of our lives. Thank you for making things more complicate, slower, less user friendly, more complex and throwing eBay in on it. Yeah, you did a great job marketing this one. Lets just throw these people under the bus to see how they react….like a very bad science experiment. I will no longer use Yahoo’s main page even though I found ways around it. MSNs page is sure looking good now! You have a great marketing department as you just lost a faithful user of 10+ years! This site BITES!

Kevin | November 30th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

This blows, I am glad that testing for drugs are not done the same way that Yahoo decided to test out the new page on us. I would like to be asked if I want to see the new beta version of the page.

MIMI | December 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am

I want my Yahoo Classic back! Iam going to switch to MSN

Sue | December 1st, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Thanks a million to Mike who suggested ATF Cleaner. It worked great! and the nasty new homepage (m.yahoo) is gone.
Loved the old format, hated the new one…too many extra clicks, didn’t have the mail preview (& all the other previews, via mouse-over), too much focus on graphics over functionality.

Larry Sattler | December 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm

I really do not like the new format of the Yahoo Home Page. In my opinion, just a few changes to the old page would have made a big difference. I would move to another home page in a minute if I wasn’t using a Yahoo e-mail. I’ll have to think about my options.

Steve | December 1st, 2008 at 7:46 pm

I am not as upset as most those ranting against the new “M” site, but agree 100% that the “sneaky” factor was quite unexpected from a site I have used from my first days accessing the Internet.

I feel certain Yahoo! really did not think through the “random” choice method of testing and that is sad. Old page or new page, I will likely continue to use Yahoo! in spite of this mistake in methodology.

I sincerely hope Yahoo! management notes the rancor, disgust and indignation expressed by all of the customers selected to try the new site without their fore knowledge.

Next time ask for volunteers (you will get thousands of volunteers) or at a minimum announce what you are doing with clear instructions on how to make an alternate choice like you did with the new E-mail (which I sincerely enjoy).

Loyal Yahoo! fans are not shy about voicing their opinions.

paul_ | December 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Thanks for carving time out of my day to fix your mistakes.

File this in with your field results for the bucket test: more angry [former] users than I have ever seen on an article comments page.

You fail, Yahoo.

Andrew_B | December 2nd, 2008 at 7:20 am

This was the biggest pain in my butt that I have had to deal with in a long time. I had no idea why one of my four computers was going to this odd yahoo page. I hated it, and I couldn’t figure out how to change back. At least give us a “back to normal” option like you do with the new mail. I really do not like this new yahoo, and I am glad that I finally found this site to tell me how to get rid of it.

Ask for volunteers, or give us an option to turn this turd off! I finally deleted by cookies, and I can get back to the regular yahoo now, which I enjoy.

-Andrew

Jim Landskroener | December 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 am

One of my colleagues uses yahoo as her homepage and asked about the new URL that seems to include an “m” in front of the 3 W’s. She fnids this to be a huge pain when typing in new URLs, and I can see why. Perhaps you could explain why this extra letter is necessary. Or, better yet, get rid of it.

SoMadWentTo AOL.COM | December 2nd, 2008 at 9:54 am

I am so mad at being put into this test group A) without warning, B) without my permission and C) to a page that sucks so bad I’m sure the words I’d use to describe it wouldn’t make it past the censors that … that … I’m so angry I switched back to AOL.Com and now use that as my base page. I am a non-voilent person, but if I ever meet the person who screwed up my internet life by putting me in this group and forcing me into this vile, time-wasting, bad excuse for a web page, I will slap them silly!

jeannie | December 2nd, 2008 at 12:19 pm

I don`t want this yahoo test page, I don`t like it at all,don`t put me on this page, I like the old homepage better.

Ali | December 2nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm

I HATE M.YAHOO.COM!!!!! WHY CAN’T I GET THE OLD YAHOO PAGE EVEN IF I TYPE IT IN!!??? I HAVE SWITCHED TO GOOGLE-I’M DONE-

I HATE YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!

Ali | December 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Comment from a proud Yahoo! user. Like many people, I visit Yahoo! almost every hour – it is my home, I could say. The moment I saw the new home page, m.yahoo.com, I hated. Tonight, my old homepage is back! Honestly, the new homepage could have (and will) demolished the love-bricks I had for http://www.yahoo.com. Leave the old homepage for its simplicity, less distractive and a hop-like format. Leave us alone or we will leave Yahoo! alone!!!

t | December 3rd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

I don’t like m.yahoo.com

rc | December 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am

this new page sucks! I can not got directly to my mail as I wish. If I am going to take the time to log on then I want to got to my mail. Not the damned home page again.

Angelo Serra | December 4th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

I hate this new layout. How do I remove this crap I did not ask for?

Kent | December 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

New Home Page is Crap as is their New and Improved My Yahoo page with popups everywhere (don’t we all run popup blockers…because no one likes them) I do not understand what Yahoo’s problem is lately.

Go to Internet TOOLS AND DELETE COOKIES, got my old Yahoo home page back. Thanks for whoever discovered that.

a_disgruntled_user | December 5th, 2008 at 2:08 am

I have been a loyal Yahoo user for years and have been using yahoo.com as my main web portal for a very long time.

But a few minutes ago I started being automatically redirected to m.www.yahoo.com. After a quick search, it appears that you are now penalizing your frequent users by making them your guinea pigs for your new look and that there is no easy way to get back to the normal http://www.yahoo.com page.

You can of course decide that you do not care about the opinion of your users, in which case I’ll start using Google or Netvibe as my default start page, or you could decide to be smart and offer your users an opt-out option.

Just FYI, trying to copy the functionality Google offers its users is NOT the way to successfully compete with them: they are better at what they do, just like you are better at what you do.

Aping Google is not going to save your shrinking userbase and your declining business: trying to improve user experience and treating your users with a modicum of respect is more likely to succeed. Seriously, this looks another ‘new yahoomail interface’ mess. If we wanted to use Outlook or gmail, that’s what we would be doing already: you really need to stop treating your users with such contempt that you assume we are not aware of our options.

The only result you achieve by such high-handed tactics is lose long-time users like me. Frankly, if a solution to this problem is not found/posted clearly within 24 hours, I’ll change my homepage.

Oh yes, that’s something else you apparently have forgottten or never known: internet surfers are remarkably self-centered and have no patience whatsoever.

In case I was not clear enough: no, I do not like the m.www.yahoo.com interface.

The old look was ugly, no one would dispute that, but I had grown inured to the visual mess and was not looking for feng shui anyway, just a basic, fairly easy to navigate central page. I was not all that hot about the gradual changes you made to the main Yahoo! portal over the past 5-6 years, but I tolerated them because they were gradual.

But this? This takes the cake and I am a few minutes away from never coming back to your portal.

Note: there is no need to have your sockpuppets insult my ancestry and deride my opinions, I do not propose to check back on this page after posting this. If you want to ignore my opinion, go right ahead, it’s your company, your jobs, your future livelihood. Not mine: for me it’s just a matter of something as insignificant as my default homepage (after all, I spend most of my time on my social network page, I might as well make it my default homepage).

Good luck in your future endeavors, because if I do not manage to find a solution with a bit of googling around very soon, I’m gone.

a_disgruntled_user | December 5th, 2008 at 2:22 am

Oh and to the dozens of people who posted regarding the ease of deleting cookies and temporary files to get back to the old page: I tried that first -after assuming I had been phished for a few stressful minutes- and IT DID NOT WORK.

Don’t get me wrong, I am glad it works for the majority of you (hi condescending and capslocking people like Shelly and co.), possibly those of you who use Internet Explorer, but I use Firefox because _I_ care about security.

I am not going to go back to using IE just for Yahoo. That would be seriously crazy, bordering on the unbalanced.

Oh well, nearly 10 years of loyalty and dozens of friends and family converted to Yahoo down the drain. Now to get them all switched to gmail… thanks for the waste of my very limited free time, Yahoo.

a_disgruntled_user | December 5th, 2008 at 2:51 am

Thank you TJ Powell | November 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm.

Deleting cookies and history may work for some (IE users apparently), but it didn’t work for me with Firefox.

Whereas if as TJ recommends you just use: http://209.191.93.52/
as your home page instead of “www.yahoo.com” (which will re-direct), I do get back to the old look. Thanks TJ!

But guess what? The trust is gone. Yahoo may decide to switch the homepage to the new design in a few weeks after announcing a rash of enthusiastic users loved the new look, so I am still going to change my portal and get started on chnaging all my email addresses too. Argh, some of them I had had for… 10 years? My very first email address was a yahoo address and I last checked it this morning. The end of an era.

Oh well. Goodbye and good luck, Yahoo!

dwash86 | December 5th, 2008 at 8:57 am

Too much too soon. My friends and I cant even open our mail using this new layout… just leave it

JmDST | December 5th, 2008 at 11:46 am

I hate it!!! I did not agree to be a part of this stupid test. I want the old yahoo back! When I tried deleting my cookies, it changed nothing!…and i have IE

courtney | December 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

I HATE IT!

Travis Dolby | December 5th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I am one of the Unfortuneate Testers Chosen at Random it sucks I cannot get rid of the Abomanation. I will try a different homepage it sucks I have had yahoo as my homepage for 8 years. simply terrible.

DESTINY | December 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

I think this m.www.yahoo.com opened a backdoor and gave me an unrepairable virus! Yahoo should send everyone an email letting them know whats going on. Even after system restore, my computer is still messed up. THANKS!
I think I’ll use somebody else and never return to yahoo again!

david griggs | December 5th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

i don`t like the new site the old is better how can i get it back ?

mahfud | December 5th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

It looks great and attractive and in the same time faster

Cori | December 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am

I might be in the minority, but I absolutely love it. I actually came across this site when I was trying to find out how to get the new homepage back. It’s on my old computer and I’ve gotten used to it there, so now it’s hard to readjust to the old homepage on my laptop. It’s hardly a perfect site, but after getting used to the changes I think it’s a definite improvement over the old(or current?) homepage. I can’t wait to have access to it again!

Joe M | December 6th, 2008 at 4:48 am

Thanks to a_disgruntled_user and his note that the old homepage can be viewed at:

http://209.191.93.52/

Will go there until someone upstairs takes that down.

Patrick | December 6th, 2008 at 9:32 am

Wow, they didn’t even give me a choice to update, half hour ago I had regular yahoo, now the mwww.yahoo. I prefer the old style I have been using for years, maybe I just don’t like change. The new site sucks but luckily the address http://209.191.93.52/ that TJ Powell posted works great just put it as your homepage, and back in bussiness.

Agathon | December 6th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Add me to the list of infuriated customers. The new website is terrible — and even that description is being charitable. But the decision to force people to the new website without receiving the customer’s consent, giving any warning, or providing a simple link to get the old version back? That is, hands down, one of the most insanely idiotic business decisions I have seen in the past decade (in which, I might add, I have always been one of Yahoo’s fiercest supporters).

Fortunately, the fix above worked (at least for the time being). But I guarantee you that I am heading straight over to Google if that terrible new m.yahoo finds its way back to my computer screen.

Angelo Serra | December 6th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

I removed the cookies under Firefox (2.0.0.18) and it worked. Here is an answer i recently got from Yahoo Service:

Hello Angelo,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Homepage.

I understand that you have been redirected to “m.www.yahoo.com” while visiting “www.yahoo.com” and you want to switch back to the old Yahoo!
Homepage.

“m.www.yahoo.com” is the URL for new Yahoo! Homepage.

Yahoo! Homepage is undergoing changes in appearance, functionality and service. At this time, there is no option to return to the previous version. I apologize for the inconvenience caused.

In line with Yahoo!’s standard procedure, we randomly expose test pages to a fraction of our users and appreciate your patience during this process.

Testing is an ongoing process across the Yahoo! network because of our desire to improve our products and serve you better. There is no completion date set at this time.

Now, on the left side of the page under My Applications, you can preview your Yahoo!, AOL, or Gmail email accounts, check out movies & local events, see your horoscope and weather, or track your stock portfolios at a quick glance.

On the right side of the page under Yahoo! Services are quick links to your favorite Yahoo! services. Click the service you want, and we’ll take you there.

Moreover, access to the test version of the Yahoo! Homepage is currently enabled only for a random sample of Yahoo! users. We are not providing additional users with access at this time, but have posted some background information on our corporate blog at:
http://ycorpblog.com/2008/09/17/testing-testing-a-new-yahoo-com/

Please feel free to check back on the blog during the coming months for updates on when the new homepage will be available for more people.

If you have additional questions regarding this matter, please reply to this message and I will gladly assist you.

My goal is your complete customer satisfaction and I want to ensure that your concerns are completely resolved. If there is any reason you feel your concerns were not satisfied, please reply to this email and I will work hard to resolve your issue.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Homepage.

Regards,

Hansi

—————————————————
Well, my concerns were not satisfied. I was told that there was no way to back this change out, that this was done under the T&C’s (was unable to find that), and trying to make me feel like some sort of priviledged few is not really what I am looking for.

I use Yahoo! because it has stayed relatively the sam format since its’ inception. It is a nice, solid, clean design without a lot of “fluff”. Let’s keep it that way.

Better yet, instill some intelligence in your support staff instead of FAQ-Drones that only spew cut-and-paste answers.

The_NPP | December 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am

This article is the biggest piece of horse crap I have ever read. I am certain that anyone praising the test site gets paychecks signed by Yahoo. This new “feature rich” page is so tedious to navigate and use that on the machine it appeared on I have switched to AOL.COM. Oddly enough, the more I use AOL.COM the better I am liking it and if my main machine cannot reach the original Yahoo.Com soon, I may switch all my PCs over to AOL to be consistant.
It takes four to nine times the number of choices to do simple tasks and I don’t like wasting my time.
But I doubt anyone will read this as it is reported on the web that Yahoo is selectively deleting bad comments about the new interface.
So who ever is about to hit the kill key for this posting know this, I am not alone in my complaints and I am not alone in moving elsewhere. When this posting doesn’t appear, all my PCs will be switched to AOL.

Craig | December 7th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

With all due respect, I can not stand this new homepage and am not getting used to it. Spent lots of time trying to change back and now understand that is not possible. I will go to another homepage in the near future, rather than live with this one. What were you guys thinking?

Josh r | December 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

How do I Get this? I had it once before and something happened, now I want the New Yahoo page back, How do I get it back? and ive tryed typing in m.www.yahoo.com
and as setting it as my homepage… nothing.

LL | December 8th, 2008 at 7:31 am

Ok Like most have already said this new page sucks the big one.. What really pisses me and im sure the others. That We werent asked and were forced to use and look at this page which btw, is slow and annoying there are too many clicks and its just more complicated. I seriously think you should have left the old page alone it worked everyone liked it for the most part and it was easy to use if anything else you could of at least asked and gave us a choice. Not everyone will like changed i myself dont always like it either buh i really dont when its bad. Anyway .. you should make the change if u must similar to the old page and how it ran. One click to everything not 500 and keep the hovering stuff so that you can hover over things like the weather and keep the scrolling of the diff news types instead of being forced to go the the page example.. you want to scroll over like on the old page to sports and read it see something interesting click it.. buh on this new page you have to go to the sports page itself very annoying…

Dof | December 9th, 2008 at 9:31 am

To be honest, I prefer the old version better.
With this new version you click on the mailbox to view mail, and you end up only seeing your mail on the left half of the screen with about 10 emails, while we are still seeing the ads and other whatnot on the right half of the screen. It just seems too cluttered. So many things going on. Most of the other features I do not use on a regular basis anyway so it just gets in the way. Just my 2 cents.

Terry | December 9th, 2008 at 9:58 am

I don’t like the new home page. It is slower when checking yahoo mail,weather,stock market news and evrything else.

Kevin | December 9th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

The new design sucks I want my old one back!

Dan | December 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm

IT IS HORRIBLE AND IS NOT USER FRIENDLY,I WILL NOT USE THIS HOMEPAGE ONCE IT CHANGES,BTW YAHOO MAIL AND MESSENGER ARE HORRIBLE NOW,SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE FIRED FOR LOUSEY WORK.

Angela Farnham | December 9th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

OMG I FREAKING HATE THE NEW FREAKING HOMEPAGE AND I DELETED ALL MY COOKIES AND I STILL CANT GET RID OF IT OMG YAHOO ARE YOU SMOKING CRACK???

richard | December 10th, 2008 at 4:33 am

This new page is an example why your company is doing so POORLY in the world market, and in the STOCK MARKET.
Your days of GOOD ideas seem to be over …face it, you are trying to dazzle the world with a great page … but it is NOT !! You are ONLY making people move away from Yahoo permanantly, and I will be one if this continues.

loop | December 10th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

it sucks and I’m now done with yahoo..

dana | December 10th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

This new homepage is awful, I was one of the “lucky ones” who was forced to trial it. It takes forver just to be able to log in to email. There should be a way to switch back, most who have been forced to trial it find it difficult to find things and a poor design. I solved the problem though, I made my homepage google, it is a much better search engine. I also switched email accounts, and just let my junk mail go to yahoo!

Ricky | December 11th, 2008 at 6:43 am

Looks good to me, not sure why everyone is complaining so much. So what if you have to click a couple more times to get to your email, it really isnt the end of the world. Chill out people!

Jay | December 11th, 2008 at 7:30 am

I must say I totally hate it! It’s nowhere near as functional as the old page; it makes me go to various tabs to do things (which wastes my time) while the old one showed everything allowing me to only tab things I wanted to tab. This is NOT an improvement.

SK | December 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GIVE ME BACK MY YAHOO CLASSIC….I DO NOT WANT TO BE A TESTER….THIS IS THE 2ND TIME I AM MAKING A REPORT ABOUT BEING USED AS A TESTER AND YOU ALL JUST REFUSED TO LISTEN

I hate the new look

Shan | December 11th, 2008 at 10:07 am

I hate this new page – the shading around the sides is dark and I like my home page to be lighter. Also I like the news at the top and the featured stuff to be at the bottom like it is on the current site and not the way it is in the new site.

What really pisses me off so much about you guys testing this out however is that you don’t give us an option to opt out and revert back to the old home page. You dump this new page on us without even asking for feedback. So why am I being subjected to this new page if you don’t ask for my feedback and you don’t give me an option to get out of it? Simply ridiculous in this day and age.

Ricky | December 12th, 2008 at 4:06 am

As mentioned in many previous posts, you can opt out by clearing your cookies. In addition there is a link in the top right of the new homepage which says “Go to Classic Yahoo!”

Also there is a link in the top left that says “Send Feedback”

Is it just me with those links or are people just jumping on the “I hate the new yahoo homepage” bandwagon without giving it a chance?

Chuck Marsh | December 12th, 2008 at 8:15 am

After reading all the comments I’ve come to the conclusion that 98% of the people HATE the new home page. I personally CAN NOT STAND IT, WAY too slow, looks like one of my grandkids drew it up(and they are really young). I’ve used YAHOO forever, hell I used and remember PRODIGY to get on line. As old as PRODIGY was, it had a better home page than this piece of crap, like everyone else I got the same run-a-round from Yahoo and was not satisified with the reply. I called my youngest son (he has a degree in computer science) and he told me a few tricks to try – thank heavens they worked and now… This piece of crap is GONE!!!! Thanks Son. Yahoo should check with the people that actually use a product BEFORE trying to improve something that really does’nt need improving. If it works and people are happy don’t mess with it. LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

L | December 12th, 2008 at 8:30 am

I don’t like the “new” test Yahoo page, period. Good things don’t last forever, don’t they?

I thought my browser was hijacked so many times and was afraid of checking into my mail box. Anyway hackers could just come up with a similar page and make people believe it’s another crazy yahoo test page. Smart way to go testing. MSN sends too many user communication emails to users but at least they communicate!

PickFu | December 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Just did a quick poll on the Yahoo redesign and it looks like people like the current version over the new one (notably women).
http://pickfu.com/2BMVML

Ken | December 12th, 2008 at 10:15 am

I hate the new page and don’t appreciate being a guinea pig for something that I did not explicity volunteer for. Viva msn.com!

Rex Pryor | December 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

I HATE YOUR NEW HOMEPAGE. IF I CAN’T GET THE OLD PAGE BACK, I’M GOING TO GOOGLE OR MSN!!!!!!!!!!!

Just me | December 12th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

THis sucks. I just logged on and get this crappy looking looking yahoo. THanks for warning me yahoo. If you don’t change the look back I am done with yahoo. I have been with you since 98 and I will not be with you much more. This look sucks and I am pissed off you didn’t give us advanced notice you were going to do this.

Roxy | December 13th, 2008 at 5:36 am

I was shocked last night when I saw a new address http://m.www.yahoo.com instead of the regular one http://www.yahoo.com. I thought it was a mirrored site and I kept cleaning and cleaning my computer looking for a virus lol!! I liked the site…I was glad to find it’s a legitimate yahoo test website.

Ray B. | December 13th, 2008 at 9:07 am

The new Yahoo homepage sucks…. Don’t fix it, if it’s not broke. The old homepage was much better and for now, I’m gonna start using another homepage (not Yahoo). Yahoo really screwed up on this one.

David | December 13th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Absolute CRAP.

Stop trying to dumb-down the portal. It looks like something AOL would come up with. If this the the new Yahoo, I’ll be leaving for another service.

Travis | December 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am

This is BS. If youre going to force a change at least give us the option to switch to the classic yahoo, as you did with yahoo mail. This new page is extremely annoying and while it does offer some new features that are decent it takes to long to access them. Please fix this issue before long time users like me switch email providers…..

brandon | December 14th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Hi yahho ,

idk if its just me or not but the new dashboard is basically like the old one just moved it from the right to the left and vertical now horizontal!

atleast for me i much prefer the classica because i am visually impaired and i have memberized what should be where and what each link real says! so the minor upgrades to the site , however good they might be will actually cause me problems! but i love u yahoo thx for letting me apart of u!

Michael Manning | December 15th, 2008 at 4:51 am

This sucks. I was changed without being asked! HOW DO I CHANGE BACK? YOUR NEW PAGE IS TERRIBLE!!!

Michael Manning | December 15th, 2008 at 4:52 am

Google here I come!

Amr | December 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Please let me know how can I back to old Yahoo front page.
Yours,AMR

Kevin Law | December 16th, 2008 at 12:05 am

I like the look of the new layout, but I have to say many improvement is needed to increase the usability.

Firstly, I hope that the logo will be animated like the classic. Also, I don’t like the serif text for the headers. It’s common in blogs, but a homepage is not a blog. It looks dull. And then, the hiding of featured services is unnecessary. It doesn’t take too much space if you list down all the services at once. But if you hide the services, you have to hover the arrow before searching for the link. It’s wasting my time.

I have a suggestion: Can you make an arrow button for each of the services in the dashboard? It just like the arrow next to the forward button in our browser. When people hovering/clicking it, the preview pane will show up. If the user wants to enter the service page directly, they just have to click on the icon or the label. Isn’t it good for all of us?

Hope this helps.

jm | December 16th, 2008 at 6:17 am

+1 to the Don’t Like It list.

I switched my homepage to the URL of the old layout – when that goes away, I’ll get something else.

As far as the PickFu survey that shows the majority like the new design, I read it a different way: 42% don’t like it.
At this juncture, I don’t believe it’s wise of Yahoo to potentially lose a huge amount of people over a page re-design.

That said, I’m sure Google thinks the new layout is a GREAT idea!

Charlene | December 16th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

Why am I getting an “M” in front of http://www.yahoo.com? I have to go down to search and type in whatever webpage I want. If I type it up at http://www.yahoo.com nothing will come up as it automatically puts an “m” in front of the www. I know this is weird but it is there and I can’t remove it permanently. Help.

Felix | December 16th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

I had the most unpleasant experience with the new yahoo home page. way to hard to navigate and getting email was an absolute pain. i for one prefer the old page 100%.

Mark | December 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Hi to all. I’m also one of those “Lucky Beta Testers” chosen to use this http://m.www.yahoo.com. At first, i thought it was a fraud/scam site because there was NO notification or consent from yahoo that i’ll be a part of this test. Personally, i don’t like this beta homepage. Reasons are:

1. It consumes more bandwidth to load compared to the previous one.
- yes.. it’s true.. loading the m.www.yahoo.com takes more time to load than the old http://www.yahoo.com

2. Too much Eye Candies
- ooohh.. what’s that on the side? ohhh.. it moves when you hover your mouse pointer on that word! woooooooooow!
wait a minute, do we really need that just to check our email? i guess not.

3. Confusing (specially to not-so-computer-literate people)
- i had 4 co-workers asking me what the hell happend to http://www.yahoo.com and how do they use it. i simply replied “the links are basically the same, they just moved them around.” and guess what they replied? “well if they moved them around, maybe some we’re in http://www.google.com because i cant see my favorite links in that new yahoo website.” (i literally LOL’ed on that)

4. Pointless upgrade.
- IMHO, this upgrade is really pointless. why? because MyYahoo looks almost the same with this beta website. why not just focus on MyYahoo and let the old homepage as it is?

5. “Irreversible” Upgrade for “Randomly” Chosen Users WITHOUT CONSENT = BIG FAIL
- seriously, who wants to be a guinea pig here? NO ONE!

anyways.. to those who were affected by this beta test that still want to use the old yahoo homepage, there’s a way to reverse the “curse” (yes im calling it a curse for it does more damage than benefits), there are some ways to go back to the old yahoo homepage. Try this steps:

FIREFOX Users:
1. Click Tools > Clear Private Data > Check all boxes (to wipe everything out) > click OK > type in http://www.yahoo.com again to address bar and see if it’s now back to the old homepage.

I.E. Users:
1. Click Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Under Browsing History, Click Delete… > Delete All.. > Yes > Restart I.E. and type http://www.yahoo.com manually to your address bar.

if these fails, then try using a cleaning program. Crap Cleaner works wonders when it comes to cleaning. it can also clean your system registry. just “google” it.

sobi fall | December 17th, 2008 at 5:30 am

I hate this new homepage design. Absolutely hate it. It’s not an improvement over the old in any way that I can detect. Its supposed “simplicity” is not a virtue. It’s also a departure from what has become a useful and usable convention. Dumb idea. Loathsome. Bleh.

Dylan | December 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am

Apparently, I was one of the randomly selected test subjects for the new page design.

Is there any way to remove myself from this list? I like the classic generic yahoo page. I refused to use the My!Yahoo page when it was introduced… Fortunately, at that time I had an option of going back to the classic page. I can’t access that page now. And that really aggravates me.

Jerry | December 17th, 2008 at 11:04 am

New Homepage sucks. What’s next???? require XP uses to use Vista that doesn’t work????

What was wrong with the old homepage. Why make me change when I am happy with Yahoo classic. If you must build a new page to keep people employeed I can understand that. At least give users that want to stay with the existing homepage the ability to do this.

Jerry in WA state

Jane Smith | December 17th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

If you don’t want the new page there’s a box on the right hand side at the top of the page to return to yahoo classic. If you clear all of your history the page will also be gone.

Mike | December 18th, 2008 at 5:40 am

Well, its been a great 14 years with Yahoo! as my home page… Looks like its time to move that final piece of the puzzle to Google.

You must have gone with the cheapest bid or internal creative because it doesn’t look like it was professionally designed. Who cares about usability and design, were adding apps and widgets because everyone else is!

Kathy | December 18th, 2008 at 9:10 am

i don’t mind the change but take out that m. crap it is messing me up BIG time!!!! When you change something do it right!

liz | December 18th, 2008 at 7:21 pm

I hate the “new look” of this homepage. Don’t want to be one of your test users – don’t you have to get permission from us before you change what our yahoo page looks like? This is the second or third time you’ve “tested” us – and each time we’ve replied/given feedback in a strongly negative fashion. Each time we’ve “tested” your new page we also noted that our system runs slower – the search engine on the yahoo page is extremely slow. Knock it off! We don’t like it and definitely don’t want it. Shame on you! I know you’re getting LOTS of complaints because I called our ISP to complain and she said it was a Yahoo thing, not AT&T. Can’t you take a hint?! Get rid of this and fire whoever created it!

Gordon | December 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am

Web browser: Internet Explorer 6
Internet Service Provider (ISP):
Operating System: Windows XP
I do not like the new yahoo home page. I tried to down load the
ieSpell and lost my old style ( classic I think) yahoo page. I do not
like the new one I do not like the lay out and I will not use it.
How do I get my old yahoo home page back?
If it can’t be done I will give up Yahoo.
Yes! I am an unhappy camper
got some robot reply.
second messg to yahoo
==================
————————

Hansi

So to make sure I understand, this new screen and layout is a test but
you cannot let me go back to the old version. A TEST and I have no voice
in the test. Not my kind of service I have been used to from Yahoo..
When I use linux for my OS I get my old screen and layout. So I guess I
can use the old one so why not give it back to me when I use Win XP?

Your testing procedures suck big time.It should be voluntary , not
forced upon your users. I am not some kid that has to use IM or those
other gizmos and eye candy and all that other garbage. I use my yahoo
home page for what I want to do with it, not someone sitting a thousand
miles away thinks I should do.
If this is not corrected and the customer (me ) not satisfied I guess I
will have to use something else instead of Yahoo for my home page..Not
something I really want to do.
=========this is what was in your Email to me=====
My goal is your complete customer satisfaction and I want to ensure that
your concerns are completely resolved. Prove it.

same ol robot reply
Guess I will go the Linux route and dump this new crap from Yahoo.

I guess this will be dumped as it is a negetive post and forbid yahoo engineers see anythng negetive about thier coveted Home page.

jd | December 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am

The new front page might have been accepted if it had been an option instead of a surprise. All the links appear to make it much slower than Classic. Likewise it is way too busy. Clean it up and take out all the usless links. Simpler is always better.

Dave | December 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

I do not like this at all; this behaves like a homepage hijack. Until I found this blog, I thought it was a malware or spyware infection. Please Stop.

Jacob S | December 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pm

I hate it, I don’t want it, I received no warning of it and thought I was suffering a “browser hijack” or some kind of forgery. Stop changing things that don’t need to be changed and ASK people if they want to be your beta testers don’t sneak it in and try to cram it down my throat, that’s no way to gain acceptance.

Jacob S | December 19th, 2008 at 7:16 pm

All you people who claim there is an option “go to classic” on the new layout, there is NOT. You must have a different version of the new page than I have. There is NO WAY (provided by Yahoo at least) to change back. However clearing the cache and cookies in Firefox did make it go away for now. Thankfully.

ken | December 21st, 2008 at 1:29 am

I don’t like it how do I change it back

JB | December 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm

The new page is very poorly done.

A first semester designer wouldn’t make those mistakes.

I immediatly switched to firefox.

Much thanks to the person who gave the delete cookies fix for the new page virus.

Everythings back to normal.

Thanks!

Ash | December 22nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm

I HATE it. It happened to me and I want it gone.

MIKE | December 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm

People are scared to change on things that come so easy and comforable.I myself threw out an e-mail today but maybe just maybe a change is in order.Yes i think the new face needed a facelift its just hard to let go sometimes so you go for it my yahoo and keep up the great work as we go into 2009,happy holidays to all my american-usa family.BUY AMERICAN PRODUCTS,start w/ YAHOO.COM….

Bill | December 23rd, 2008 at 1:53 am

Strangely enough, Yahoo blatantly lies in their customer service (or else customer-no-service is being kept in the dark). Customer service says in their e-mails – like Hans verifies above – that the new homepage cannot be changed back. However, Yahoo Answers has a question asking how to return to the Classic Yahoo page and the Answer tells you how: just delete all cookies and then type in http//www.yahoo.com and VOILA! it’s back. I just tried it and it works.

Nevertheless, I may follow Hans. I sure hope that someone with the knowledge of how to operate a customer service department takes over Yahoo; preferably in a hostile takeover so that the executives responsible for keeping this secret and for deliberately dissing their own customers get fired. With so many good people losing their homes, it would be nice to find THEM getting foreclosed on.

It is incomprehensibly STUPID and completely disrespectful to keep this, or to attempt to keep this, a secret. Seriously, I hope such behavior is rewarded by some well deserved firing and consequent personal distress. That is apparently the only way these people can learn a little consideration for others. How can any sane person deliberately treat their customers this way!? It’s crazy; just crazy.

Ric | December 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

This new page really SUCKS. I don’t like it. And I don’t like being forced to be a part of this “test”. If it was a test – then Yahoo flunked. It was rude to just arbitrarily force this on me and VERY POOR CUSTOMER RELATIONS. How can I get http://www.yahoo.com back?? What happened to my choice options here – am I just supposed to like this becuase some boob thinks this page is better?

glmoyo | December 25th, 2008 at 8:33 am

i stopped browsing for two days just because of that annoyance. Old yahoo shows news all around before i search. I get all things in one screen. i AM NOT interested in the new old thing of microsoft making ms word more difficult and hiding what people need most! Please free us from forcing us it what we dont want!
I want to see the whole page, news all over the world every thing in one page — that old http://www.yahoo.com was a supper page. I hate msn from microsoft. may be i will have to try other start up pages. I spent hours on internet searching how to revert back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a laptop this is for yahoo mobile I DONT WANT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

glmoyo | December 25th, 2008 at 8:46 am

give us an option, please, please i learnt and loved internet from yahoo in 1997, in Zimbabwe and now its dead!
that page you designed is for youth who want to play around … leave us our option of old sytle— news everything in one page best page in the world! covered everyone!
I wonder if you did not hire Microsoft engineer/designers to your company– that is what they do— messed up ms word – now i cant draw a line without snapping at the wrong point to another object in word 2007(want the ‘free line back’ from ms word 2003 MS and dont take my yahoo into the same unkid path for their customers! we love yahoo, really, really, i never change my start up page unless i wanted search through google long time ago before it was integrated into http://www.yahoo.com! I love that old page give me the link..give your http://www.m.yahoo.com to chi-man and chi-women (sharp youngsters)

Gary Meddles | December 25th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

The new site totally sucks
Where are the items you used to show without searching, such as ncaaf football?
Also, I can hardly read this light blue text
You make it any lighter, we won’t be able to see it.
Good job of screwing up something that wasn’t broke to start with!!

Stephanie | December 25th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

How do i get this one, i had it and i refreshed my cookies and now it’s gone! I want this layout back! How do I get it????

Matt | December 26th, 2008 at 5:20 am

Please tell me how I can get rid of m.yahoo. I really don’t like it, and did not want to be on it.

Jo | December 26th, 2008 at 6:07 am

It is awful! I love the classic look and demand to have a choice in the yahoo page because I demand to be able to get it back and immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just like with the mail I expect and DEMAND a choice and shouldn’t have this shoved down my damn throat!

Ande | December 26th, 2008 at 7:30 am

I, too, HATE this new homepage!!! I actually changed to AOL as my new hompage but decided to voice my objection and see what happens. If this updated page is going to be “the new thing” on the block, then I want the option to return to “the old thing” which for my needs is far more user friendly.

Tony | December 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

This new format totally sucks – I understand that most people react to change negatively until they tried something but this is wayyyy to busy – its being crammed down my throay and I cant wait to get all my accounts switched to Googe. Evan ebay lets you revert back to old formats. Someone helllpppp ussssssss.

DG | December 26th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

I do not like the new yahoo homepage. It is more difficult to navigate and it does not look as attractive. I will try MSN…

Crystal | December 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am

I understand what you guys are trying to do, but I can’t stand this page. If this is supposed to be aimed at young people, this test failed pretty badly because I can’t figure this thing out. Everything is in weird places and all pushed into tight categories that force me to look harder than usual for what I want. I also don’t appreciate this random test thing that was forced on us without our consent. For a few moments I thought some crazy virus got onto my computer and I almost hyperventilated. I stuck by yahoo whenever everyone told me to go to msn or google, and with stunts like these I’ll probably listen to my friends.

Ralph | December 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

HOW DO I CHANGE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL YAHOO HOMEPAGE???? I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING I CAN THINK OF. I HAVE REINSTALLED FIREFOX 3 TWICE TRYING TO GIT RID OF THIS HORRIBLE CHANGE.

PLEASE PUT A LINK ON YOUR HOMEPAGE THAT LETS ME CHANGE BACK. I AM FORCED TO USE EXPLORER (which displays the original homepage) until i get this fixed!!!

please post “CHANGE TO ORIGINAL HOMEPAGE” instructions on your homepage!!
please post “CHANGE TO ORIGINAL HOMEPAGE” instructions on your homepage!!
please post “CHANGE TO ORIGINAL HOMEPAGE” instructions on your homepage!!

OR EVEN A QUICK CHANGE BACK TO ORIGINAL TAB.

Ralph | December 27th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Yahoo, i found a way around your new garbage homepage. i used yahoo Canada and Philippines. it looks close to the home page i like. i am starting to get tired of reading Canadian News. SCREW UP THESE PAGES AND GMAIL HERE I COME!!!

Yahoo, when are you going to stop this nonsense, quit offending longtime clients, and give us our enjoyable original homepage back?

dissatisfied member awaiting answer!!

Randy | December 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

the older format was so much easier to scan and identify where to go. So, the new format does not seem as efficient. Plus I just don’t like it.

The thing that puts me over the edge, is that sometimes I get the new version, then other times I get the older version without logging in. On top of that, I have two computers going at once (small business) and one computer has the old version and one has the new version at the same time!

Oh, my mom (79)is now calling me to fix her computer as she is getting this distorted and confusing new yahoo.

So I tried to customize MY YAHOO to get close to the old way…I can’t access that either now.

Basically, Yahoo has found every way possible to piss me off. Good bye.

chamux | December 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

I was one of the subjects on the test page. It looks great but the page is to wide.. even if you maximize the window you will still need to scroll side to side to see the entire window. I will request that they have an option for the user that narrows the page if they wish to do so. In my opinion they page is to wide.
But I love my yahoo and will have to adjust.
Also for any reply on my comment. I have looked for a way to narrow the page and yahoo has not given that option like the previous web page..

RB | December 28th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

I don’t like how http://www.yahoo.com redirects to m.www.yahoo.com. this has a feeling of “phishing” to it. It wouldve been better to make this transparent to the user. I actually thought I mightve had malware on my computer.

Susan | December 28th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

I hate it. Guess I will be looking for another homepage if I cannot get rid of this one.

Ross | December 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

The old page is a thousand times better. At least.

debby | December 29th, 2008 at 8:00 am

I hate the new home page. I did not want to be on your “test” list!!!!! I want the old home page back. Let the ones who like it stay with it, but at least give us a choice, since we did not volunteer for it in the first place!!!

G-race | December 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

I agree with Jo and Matt (above). I didn’t ask to be a select group of testers for this. I can’t stand that I wasn’t given a choice to test this or not. I also don’t have a choice to go back to the classic (old) version. What’s up with that? CHOICE Yahoo, give users CHOICE. Obviously from others up on top they want this and want it now. So give it to them. Let them play with this.

jenny | December 29th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

i love the new look, sadly i’ve only seen it a few times. i would love for it to be permanent!

Peety | December 29th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

I also DON’T like the new Yahoo homepage. I thought I had gotten a virus as there was no message from Yahoo to announce the test homepage – inconsiderate. It’s not due to familiarity that I like the old homepage. The new homepage gives me no info and it takes more clicks to get anywhere. PLEASE DON’T LAUNCH THIS HOMEPAGE.

Mike Brown | December 30th, 2008 at 12:28 am

I used hold up the old yahoo front page as an example of good Web design. Not so with the new page. The old page was nice looking but not something you get tired of. It looks professional and not designed just for some flashy look that is eye catching but you get sick of it. On the new page you also get sick of having to click around to find some links, sports or whatever. Those big icon areas on the left are pretty lame in some cases. Are people really that interested in Horoscopes? Don’t tell me, I have a feeling I wouldn’t like the answer! Also not telling people what was happening makes one wonder what the heck is going on? Have I been redirected to some phony site?

Non-flashy, professional looking pages with easy to access links please.

Greg | December 30th, 2008 at 10:17 am

This isn’t an improvement. It’s the same old corporate America BS…let’s change it to prove we’re doing something. Nothing wrong with the old page format. I resent having this shoved down my throat with no option to change back.

Henry J | December 30th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

The new page is terrible. I hate it. Thank goodness I found this page and learned how to change back to the other one. If this test becomes permanent I will find a new homepage.

Michael | December 30th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

why do you insist on changing it and not giving the user a choice of the new layout and the old layout.

the new layout is horrible. i even stopped going to yahoo as much recently because of this awful downgrade

Dana | December 31st, 2008 at 5:48 pm

this isn’t very good at all!! I found the I.M. Icon behind the advertising but all it does is bring you to the download page….does this mean we can’t see who’s on yahoo messenger while on the “HOME PAGE” as we did in the old version? Who’s going to take credit for this bad home page? It’s like you weren’t even trying ~D.M.R. 12/31/08

Rob | January 1st, 2009 at 3:39 am

I hate the new page. I mean, I really hate the new page.

I want my old homepage back…otherwise, I’ll have to track down a new homepage.

Micky | January 1st, 2009 at 9:58 am

This whole change smacks of high paid people sitting
around trying to come up with something to do to
justify their salaries.

Or perhaps now that eBay seems firmly set on a path
of self destruction with their policy of continual
changes that are driving customers away, decision
makers are moving from there over to Yahoo.

If enough specific complaints come in about an
some part of an existing product then that issue
should certainly be addressed and improved. But to
completely revamp something that is not receiving
complaints only invites the response that is being
shown.

Since the goal should be to convey information, web
design should be geared to producing something that
is as clear and uncluttered as possible. Not to
creating the next visual masterpiece of the 21st
Century.

KISS!

lim | January 1st, 2009 at 11:07 am

So does anyone know how to stop this new yahoo home page from being loaded. I find it freaking annoying. At least Y! should give me an option to switch back, or asking me whether I want to participate.

Maame | January 1st, 2009 at 3:40 pm

I dont like the new yahoo website… i want the old one back, is there anyway i can get it back????~!~!~!

Paula | January 1st, 2009 at 9:50 pm

I think the new page is awesome…..I WANT TO START USING IT NOW!!!!

Nick | January 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 am

I absolutely hate the new Yahoo Homepage,it lacks common sense and apperance of class that the old homepage had, it looks like a child developed it, bring back the old home page I have switched my hoepage from yahoo to another homepage so when I sit down at my computer I don’t have to look at something so horrific as yahoo’s new homepage take my comments for what they are worth I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way !!!!!

Jon | January 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 am

HATE IT! HATE IT! HATE IT! So does everyone I know. Give me back my CLASSIC look.

Jon | January 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 am

Are you guys at the TOP of Yahoo! looking at the comments by your users? If you are then you should respond. I have requested help to return my homepage to its Classic look and no one has responded in over 45 days. Do you really care what the consumer wants? You may have 100 million daily customers, but many of them are like me, not willing to leave even if we don’t like the changes because its too much of a hassle. You should test and seek approval from those who use. I’m tired of having to keep learning my way around updated websites (your especially). Do I constantly re-arrange my furniture in my house so it will feel like a home? NO! I keep things where I can find them so I can accomplish as much as possible in the shortest amount of time and find my way around when the lights are off. THINK ABOUT IT!

Stew | January 2nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm

I hate the page and Yahoo gives you no way to get the old one back. I love Yahoo but am using Google until they switch my homepage back.

Will | January 2nd, 2009 at 10:34 pm

The new website is inferior to the old one. There should be an opt-out button. This interferes with my e-mail access!

KathieL711 | January 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 am

I HATE that my home page has been hijacked! I use Firefox and it takes me to the new Yahoo site instead of what I have asked it to do. I want to go to http://www.yahoo.com

I hope that the powers that be read these messages. Nobody likes the new design. Please at least let US have the choice of sticking with the old Yahoo or using the new one.

steve | January 3rd, 2009 at 11:34 am

I have to admit that I hate the new homepage. I would have really liked the OPTION of testing the new home page, but since it was dumped on me I’ll say a few things about it.

Next time ask, I have been using yahoo for more than 8 years and am considering giving the site the boot because of the inconsideration involved. I know I am only one guy, but as I talk to folks and make my views known I may convince a few others to follow suit.

Looks very Microsoft to me, an example of another company that has excellent marketing ability and can actually sell crap and get away with it.

It is a nice attempt, but it failed in my opinion. At least provide instructions to change back.

I am going to try to clear my cache and delete my cookies and see if yahoo keeps redirecting me to the m.yahoo.com site. I really hope that works.

greg | January 3rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm

this new website wont load on my firefox so i am forced to use internet explorer. I do not like this http://m.www.yahoo.com/ at all. How do i fix this?

psamind166 | January 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

I am happy to know that I was not loosing my mind, When I logged on one morning and could not find the yahoo homepage that I have been working with for a couple of months’ I love the new straight to the point format and the colors were quite inviting. Now that I know I was caught up in the research wind, could I pleasse have my beta back….and next time email me first!

Joe Magnuson | January 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am

The new test website homepage is BLAH! No where near as intuitive or easy to navigate as the “old” homepage. Please, please bring it back! The new one looks and acts terrible. It reminds me of a site trying to throw bells and whistles at me…and failing miserably. I will not use the new test site. I will instead spend the time to revert back to the “old” one. What a flop! Say it aint so!!!

-Joseph

Mark Osburn | January 5th, 2009 at 11:11 am

I do not like the new homepage at all, I have sent several request to be changed back with no luck at all.

I can get the old one at work and the new one at home ,I know you can change my home back,but all I get when I contact you is same old canned wmail crap.

Way to go dumbass,it was not broke ,why mess with it?

Joey | January 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

i hate this so much. seriously i was so happy with the ease that i could navigate through the old home page. this one is rediculous

Can Nguyen | January 6th, 2009 at 1:07 am

I HATE THIS STUPID NEW MY YAHOO. I DO NOT WANT IT. YOU FORCE ME TO USE IT. IT’S MY CHOICE, NOT YOURS. GIVE ME BACK MY CLASSIC YAHOO !!!!!

mry | January 6th, 2009 at 11:07 am

I HATE this new page!!! Hate it! How can I get my old page back? pls

Joe | January 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am

Well I finally got it 2 days ago and I love it!!! and for those that are complaining about the new page and want the old page back, look in the top right corner of your page…see it?? yea restore to the old yahoo!! but anywho, this is way more better than the old page!! Hope this gets out to everyone soon!

Shawn | January 7th, 2009 at 1:36 pm

I’m so lucky I’ve been “chosen” at least 5 times for this ill-designed bucket-testing. I also think the new page is stupid. Why in the world would Yahoo! go to all this trouble of changing the page, when everyone was happy with the old one? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

The only people who are giving thumbs-up to Yahoo! are those who drool over anything new and flashy. They can have it anyway, I don’t want it.

I didn’t bother with deleting my cookies. If the suits at Yahoo! do not care about their users enough to address the countless complaints submitted except with the usual mind-numbing rhetoric (and we’re gonna do it anyway don’t worry you’ll get used to it), then I’ll just go where feedback is not only appreciated, but considered. Simple as that. It’s easy enough for me to get a new webmail account and change my homepage. Screw MSN and Hotmail too, I think I’m just gonna rise above the fray and find a homepage and mail provider with more integrity and class. FYI, there are TONS of other awesome homepage portals and webmail providers that are BETTER and lesser-known. Search for yourself.

Peace out.

Madison | January 8th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

I like the purple more than the red! It stands out without being annoying. Also, will you still have the colorchanging option like the current yahoo homepage, where you change the color of the border thing? I like that option.

Beverly Clark | January 8th, 2009 at 5:03 pm

Hate it want a way to get the old page back without loosing the cashe

Katlss | January 9th, 2009 at 7:09 am

I don’t want to be a guinea pig. I want the old format back. Yahoo blows, I am moving my home page elsewhere.

Jeffrey | January 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

I find the new homepage to be extreamly hard to navigate, far too much useless information displayed, and more difficult to use what I actually come to the page for. If this continues forward into a release, there should be an option for a “classic” homepage similer to how the mail section has the same option to choose between which format to use.

Joe | January 10th, 2009 at 2:41 am

wow.. I can’t think of a stupider thing to do.

This new Yahoo page really blows.. did anyone even bother trying it out first at the company??.. and if so, I would have loved to be a fly on the wall and had heard that conversation.. How could this have gotten out? It is SO bad, it’s comical.. HA HA… stunningly amazing.

What a bunch of losers at Yahoo. I’m gone

sam e. azure | January 11th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

aloha~
from the feedback i have seen in this blog
and on the web (~ google: m.www.yahoo.com)
your hands must be full with complaints,
so i will not rant further with mine….
( Re: Homepage – Other (KMM141215630V82889L0KM) )

these are my very simple requests/ suggestions:

first, on the test page that you are subjecting people to,
explain what is going on, so people understand, or post
a direct link from the test page to this page…simple.

second, if this new layout/format comes to a general release,
allow people the easy option of keeping the old “classic”
format, just as you did with the new e-mail release,,
(i prefer and use the “classic email”)

implementing those two aspects will save Yahoo and
its customers alot of headaches….

BTW, if this is a test, and yahoo wants feedback,
why is there not a feedback section right on the testpage?
that would inform the unwilling test subjects, and encourage
them to explore the features and give feedback,
instead of angering and frustrating so many folks….

please reply(personally- not automated form)
anytime if you are able,,
thank you very much

Rebekah | January 12th, 2009 at 1:30 am

i hate this new yahoo, and i cant get it back to what it was before.

Diana R. | January 12th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

I really Love the New yahoo.

But when I went back on to the computer after work it was no longer available….Please bring it back…please.

I love it it is easy to use and makes everything simple please bring it back or send me the link to download it for myself please!!

Mary | January 13th, 2009 at 2:40 am

I agree with the people saying that they don’t like this yahoo! I did not agree, nor was even ASKED to be a beta tester for this and I don’t apreciate it! And, I got the same answer…you can’t go back. This isn’t right. It’s extremely SLOW loading group pages. And, if it weren’t for needing to see those pages, I would do away with Yahoo alltogether.

Please either change it back or give us an option to do it ourselves.

Victoria | January 13th, 2009 at 9:58 am

I also hate the new homepage. I had tried everything I could to get rid of it. I don’t like being made to use something I don’t want. I read several post and in some of them it said to delete your cookies. I had to do this twice for some reason, but the second time worked and I have the old homepage back. So delete all your cookies.

Thanks to those who shared this earlier, and no thanks to yahoo who refused to help.

Ryan | January 13th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

YAHOO, i hate you, i hate the new homepage, and i hate the fact that you are forcing us to be your guinea pigs, i want out or i quit. This is ridiculous that you would treat customers like this, but it does explain why your company is tanking. i hope you get bought out by google or Microsoft since they actually know how to take care of their customers.

John Tune | January 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am

The NEW homepage STINKS!!!! It’s really small & confusing!!!!

Then after YOU guys switch my homepage to this piece of junk by force,I find out that I’m stuck with it & can’t go back to the OLD homepage!!!!!

Well,I don’t like bully tactics !!! Force me to do something I don’t
want to do is like being a bully.I already switched my homepage.I’ll NEVER use Yahoo
again,except for my email.If you force me to change that page to another fine piece of junk too,I’ll get
another email address somewhere else also!!!!
Using communism tactics will be the end of Yahoo & America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess since I pay nothing for your services,I have to do what you tell me,NOT!!!!

John Tune | January 14th, 2009 at 9:49 am

BTW,To all who hate this NEW page thing.You can set ANY page as a homepage.I’m currently using my local newspaper’s website as my homepage,lol.I get the same info & MORE !!!!! Then go to your email & save it in your favorites list,so you don’t even have to go thier crappy homepage to get your email,LMAO!!!!I won’t be seeing any more of YOUR advertisements Yahoo,LMAO!!!!Thanks Yahoo for getting me off my butt & looking around!!!!!!

Scott | January 14th, 2009 at 12:09 pm

THIS NEW VERSION STINKS! It is definitely less user friendly. The new version even requires more clicks to get through to your actual email messages! No warning? No opting out (ie. permission for their indentured servitude)? Why do they have to try and fix what is not broken. If Yahoo is truly trying to “serve us better” they would allow a choice to continue to use their product as desired. Now the choice is simply let me out of the test or go to another company.

Scott | January 14th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Hey CHUCK of

“Chuck Marsh | December 12th, 2008 at 8:15 am”

you wrote:

“I called my youngest son (he has a degree in computer science) and he told me a few tricks to try – thank heavens they worked and now… This piece of crap is GONE!!!! Thanks Son.”

Why not share the information so we can all get rid of it?

Tone | January 14th, 2009 at 6:24 pm

You can’t officially get rid of the new yahoo homepage; it SUCKS. I’m tired of seeing it, I have to click seven hundred, thirty-nine thousand links plus one just to get to my email… Really? Apparently that’s more convenient than the one button there was before, “Mail.”

RS | January 15th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

The five-hundredth example of bad onboarding by Yahoo.

How hard would it have been to offer a splash page that allows users to select the new version instead of the old, as a “try it out and give feedback” model? Foisting ANOTHER unpopular design on users without forewarning or consent has been one of Yahoo’s most consistent BUNGLES over the years on every product line. Groups finally got it right, and is keeping users up to speed, and regularly collecting feedback, and best of all ACTING ON IT.

I understand Yahoo internally is quite siloed, which makes sense as to why things are so chaotic in Yahoo’s portfolio of products. However, the essential premise that users are secondary to developers is very clear, and comes across indelibly. The process is insanely simple to comprehend.

1. Determine need for change. If no change is needed, don’t touch the old one. If you just need to update code, do so, but replicate what you had before. Don’t tinker, just duplicate. Add modules as needed, but let users control the experience all the way.

2. Create a parallel beta with strong encouragement and incentives for people to try the new product (discounts on products, special offers, etc).

3. Collect feedback from users. Watch usage habits. Compare with old metrics and user needs.

4. Act on the feedback, make recommended changes.

5. Repeat 3-4 until darn good.

6. Replace old with new, transferring all previously existing data and preferences. Minimize transitional difficulties actively and keep a team on ’standby’ to help users who experience glitches, making sure they have a place to report them to and someone (a live person) to report it to. NOT CUSTOMER CARE, which is not equipped to deal, in my experience.

Follow this on all products in all areas when making changes and you will alienate less customers.

Your presumption that people will want to try your product long enough to give you metrics on use “once they get used to it” is flawed, in my opinion. If the user is driven away by an unsightly mess, what is to learn from them? Unless you just want users who will put up with whatever you plop in front of them? Then sure, plop away. Hopefully Carol agrees, users deserve more respect.

Ande | January 15th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!! What’s old is new. I have my classic Yahoo webpage back. I like turning on the internet and seeing my old familiar friend. Again THANK YOU!!!!!

Ken | January 15th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

my Yahoo classic is gone and i get the new Yahoo homepage. I DONT LIKE IT ONE BIT ! Give me a choice as i want the old yahoo back. maybe ill just switch to MSN. This new Yahoo is terrible and someone should be fired over this. Its about choice and i dont see that with Yahoo.grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Very unhappy !!!!

LadyRaven | January 15th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

I don’t like it and i also don’t like being FORCED to use it. when i set my homepage as http://www.yahoo.com i expect it to load there…not load some tester page without my consent. if i wanted m.www.yahoo.com to be my homepage then i should have the choice to do that…not have yahoo “pick” me as a tester when i don’t want to be one. very dumb on your part yahoo.

dude | January 15th, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Sorry I hate it ,miss the old one..

Bill Gates | January 16th, 2009 at 5:01 am

AFTER THEY GOT AWAY WITH DESTROYING
THE profiles OF EVERY SINGLE USER
THEY DECIDED TO GO BIG!

natalie | January 16th, 2009 at 6:25 am

I THINK IT IS STUPID AND YOU SHOULD ASK INSTEADS OF JUST DOING IT AS PEOPLE LIKE MYSELFS DONT LIKE IT

skoop113 | January 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am

I don’t like it and I don’t appreciate you forcing me to use it. Why can’t you get your guinea pigs from willing users? There’s plenty here who want this crap.

Tone | January 16th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

Lame, lame, lame, lame, lame. I want my old homepage back; say goodbye to your customers, including myself.

Hello iGoogle.

ladonna holman | January 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

why can’t you just leave things alone?! i hate it! the lettering is light colored…great big ads! you have to move your screen to see everything…please please let us have our old homepage back!

fitterguy | January 16th, 2009 at 2:50 pm

You Yahoo people are seriously pissing me off. After 10 years of use, I am leaving.I am treating your redirect as if it was any other virus.

tasha | January 16th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

i want my old yahoo back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tasha | January 16th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

give it old yahoo back to us or i gonna cancel my user acc!!!i cant stand the new one.old yahoo old yahoo old yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jack | January 16th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

new yahoo home page- sucks. if isn’t broke don’t fix it, unless you have something better to fix it with. from the reactions i’m reading, your percent who likes the new home page are low. stop kidding yourself, you blew it. i’m going to msn.

marlon | January 16th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

I see I am not alone.I DO NOT LIKE THE NEW HOME PAGE!!!!!!!

If you want to test get willing participants.

I also want to know how Ande got his classic page back????

I gave feedback and they tell me I can’t get it back.

Well I guess it’s MSN here I come because it is closer to what I had!!!!

paul | January 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

hate it big time! you should ask if we want to be involved in a beta test! Im wasting so much time trying to get back to the classic page…you should at least have an option to pick the one you want! if this keeps up Im going to MSN or ….anywhere else!

Elizabeth | January 16th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

I do not like the new homepage. Please change it back.

John | January 16th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

I hate this new Look!!!! Get rid of the damn thing. IT IS STUPID!!!!!!

zxed | January 16th, 2009 at 9:08 pm

yahoo is the reason i switched to google and then igoogle 2 years ago.,

no BS flash adds
no slow loads
no crap,

i only go to yahoo when im bored and want to waste my time at work

Rhea. | January 17th, 2009 at 12:39 am

There was I sitting at my pc and wallop this dreadful new homepage came up.
Its horrible I hate it,whoever designed it needs to go back to school
How come I was not given the option??????.

The previous version was clearer and easy on the eye,why are they changing it for what reason is what I want to know, there was nothing wrong with the existing one.

I wrote to them and asked why! I just got a load of nonsense back from them and given the link to come on here.
YAHOO PLEASE LISTEN TO US WE DONT WANT IT!!!!!!!!!

Any way deleting cookies does work!

carol | January 17th, 2009 at 5:23 am

sorry, hope I am not just one of those fuddy duddies opposed to change and set in their ways, but I hate the new page.

mm | January 17th, 2009 at 6:38 am

I HATE THIS NEW HOMEPAGE!!!!Just trying to make sure you understand. I really do not like it.

ladonna holman | January 17th, 2009 at 10:19 am

well i guess it will be 1–2–3..gone to google..will check back from time to time and see if things have changed….but bye for now

Ralph DeMarco | January 17th, 2009 at 10:36 am

I absolutely hate what you’ve done to my computer – deleting cookies does not work to get the new home page back and now I’ve wasted tons of time trying to aviod something you’ve crammed down my throat……no wonder Yahoo is spiraling downwards with this crap.

John Tune | January 17th, 2009 at 10:55 am

DELETE all your cookies & get the OLD page back!!!!! Go to top of your page now & click TOOLS,then click INTERNET OPTIONS,then click DELETE COOKIES.
Or if you dont want to get rid of all your cookies,C:\Documents and Settings\Your PC name\Cookies.
Now put them in a LIST fashion & delete anyone of em that say yahoo.com.Leave the one’s that have MAIL in the name,you won’t have to relog in to your mail.It may take awhile to look thru em all but you WILL have the OLD page back!!!!!
Morons at yahoo didn’t tell me this ,I found it in the above posts,THANKS POSTERS!!!!

Tom | January 17th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

Im am shocked at the good response to the change. I give you guys your due props on a decent looking layout, but the current one is far superior. Im not trying to be threatening, but I am not using yahoo as my homepage on my ubuntu PC because it looks like it belongs on a mobile phone. My XP still looks and feels great, please dont change it, or give us an option to keep to original layout in personal preferences, since it not available.

thanks guys, please don’t force old users into a more cluttered layout. Why have such huge buttons?

mike | January 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

those of you who want new yahoo just throw an m.www.yahoo.com in there. those of you who want old yahoo, can apparently go suck pipe.

roger miles | January 17th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

B awful crap.
I prefer a to be offered a choice!
I want the old page back!
Is anybody listening?

donald gramblin | January 17th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

i like my old yahoo .com back i do not like the new

Andrew | January 17th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

I loathe this new page. At first I thought I was being phished. Who but some pimply 12-year old would come up with such a lame webpage and then not offer the use to revert to the old style? I can’t even get into Yahoo movies quickly. Stop this guff and give us back our old Yahoo page. Otherwise I am migrating.

Les | January 18th, 2009 at 8:47 am

Needlkess to say I am not happy at all with the “new &improved” home page. I recieved no notice that I was going to be one of the test subjects. I spent over 2 hrs trying to get rid a a hijacker that I thought I had because I kept getting this uglier the hell page. I use larger text size so I can read the pages easier. This causes the whole left side of the page to stack up on each other to the point you can not read what the heck they are! What a piece of CRAP! When I tried to get rid of the cookies I got the damn thing! When I emailed help I was told that there is nothing I can do, that I am stuck with this piece of CRAP! There is no optioon to opt out of this test! Yahoo you SUCK! This test proceedure SUCKS! Your customer service SUCKS! This new home page SUCKS!
You have taken what trust I had in Yahoo and trashed it!
You neglected to even offer me the common curtisy to notify me that you were going to use me as a test case and let me think that I was being hijacked to some Yahoo clone site and to waste over 2 hours of my time trying to get rid of this hijacker! Not to mentioon that I spent another hour plus changing passwords on every site I had!!!! I am PISSED OFF to say the least!
YOU GUYS SUCK!!!!!!!!!
YOU GUYS SUCK! The page SUCKS!!!! IT IS SLOWER THE HELL!! It won’t even diaply properly!!!!! YOU GUYS SUCK!!!!!!! Turn this piece of crap OFF!!!!!!!!!
I want off this damn stupid test NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for wasting my precious time on the weekend!
Thank you for Pissing me off to no end!
Thank you for ruining my weekend too !!
You have made my day!
YOU GUYS SUCK!
Get rid of this piece of CRAP!!!!
Notify people next time you think you have something worthwile. Give people a choice to try it out.
Google is looking better and better!!!! Even MSN is better then this new piece of crap you are shoving down my throut! At least it displays correctly with larger text and is faster too !
YOU GUYS SUCK!!!!!!!!!!

Randy | January 18th, 2009 at 10:34 am

Soooo, you’ve been “testing” this for how long? If you’d just read your comments, you’d find what looks to be like the majority of people don’t like your “new” look. Well I don’t like it either. The very least you could do is to give us a choice of old or new. If anyone DOES start a class action suit, add me to the list. My wife uses Google at work and says it’s faster, easier, and more user friendly. Sorry Yahoo, you just didn’t listen to the people you serve. Hello Google!
Whoa! What did I just read before I submitted? “Wield spam and you’re banished forever”? How smug is THAT? Hey, Yahoo, YOU are now banished FOREVER! See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!

derick03 | January 18th, 2009 at 10:44 am

Not a big fan at all… I like the current Yahoo! page… and now I cannot see the one that I want to see at all. You keep redirecting me to this one… Please stick with what you have already. I don’t know what research is pointing you in this direction, but seriously… it’s not necessary, and not appealing at all…

Pat | January 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

I liked the old yahoo and RESENT that I am arbitrarily assigned to be a guinea pig for a test version.

The feature I dislike most is having the letter “m.” in front of yahoo. That makes an extra step of getting rid of “m.” if I want to type in a URL for a different site.

If this feature doesn’t go away I will find another homepage.

Deborah Keough | January 18th, 2009 at 4:57 pm

I also hate the new page. It’s like Yahoo for Dummies.

I am annoyed that I was not asked to test the new page. and that I cannot have the old page back. An opt-out feature would have been nice.

I’ll give it a while, but I also will be switching to MSN or Google or something, anything, if my original Yahoo page is not restored.

Leilani | January 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

Oh gosh! What the heck is going on? I didn’t ask for my homepage to be tested on! I like the old homepage better! The new one sucks! It’s slow too! How do you change back to the old one??!!!!!

Ran Mar | January 18th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

well i finaly got the old page back “BUT NOW NARROW OPTION IS GONE”
yahoo i can change colors google is looking better to me the problem is
I have had this e-mail address for just shy of 20 yrs i started out with
aol and within 9 months i switch to yahoo as my provider for e-mail and
as a home page i alwayes injoyed the narrow feature on the home page SAVING DESKTOP REAL ESTATE

also with all the java the dial up is slowed and i choose not to pay
400/yr for poor dsl/cable service in waterloo iowa some how even though
i’m in town i’m too far from offices for decent service in this area

the new web page looks ok and has some good points but too much java and too wide

Katrina | January 18th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

I just now am seeing the new website. I hate it. The text is on top of other text or where you can read what it says. The links at the top are covered by the search box. And, of course, there is also the element of things aren’t where I am used to looking for them.

I’ve tried clearing cookies to go back to old – no luck. I’ve tried using m in front – no luck.
I tried making the text smaller to see the text on top of each other – no luck.

It isn’t going to work for me. Glad it’s working for a few of you out there, but I really hate it.

Pat | January 18th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Hate it hate it hate it. And really hate being forced to use it. I am not a guinea pig.

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:28 am

HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:30 am

I want my old page back !!!!

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:30 am

Customer is ALWAYS RIGHT! ASK WALMART

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:31 am

YAHOO SUCKS

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:31 am

ON TO MSN

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:32 am

What a bunch of corp. dribble

Roy Burson | January 19th, 2009 at 5:33 am

Can’t you people do ANYTHING RIGHT???

Lois | January 19th, 2009 at 5:38 am

Just a couple of words on the “new” yahoo. It sucks, it sucks, it sucks!!!!!! I also find that I don’t like it dashboard my ass. I can’t find anything, the prominent, obnoxious placement, read the stuff that hits you in the face when the page displays, of advertisement tells you what is really behind the “redesign” it’s look advertisers come to yahoo we blind users with your ads, yeah, they can’t see anything else.

This is very low yahoo, i’m going to msn.

Lois | January 19th, 2009 at 5:38 am

Hate it.

Josix00 | January 19th, 2009 at 8:56 am

I hate this new Yahoo Homepage. It is so annoying that I randomly get redirected to m.www.yahoo.com.

The only way to get rid of it (for a while) is to clear IE’s cache.

The layout of the current yahoo works fine for me. If yahoo wants to allow a customized user experience, then allow me to choose to stick to the current layout.

When it changes to the new format, I will be changing my homepage to google.

Deborah Hall | January 19th, 2009 at 9:09 am

I really detest this new homepage. Maybe I detest altogether. I like not having to read or search for things I want. The old page was perfect. It’s so annoying that everyone updates.

Specifically, what’s wrong with the new homepage look is that it has a teenybopper feel to it, with large cartoon icons and colors that are bubblegum-able. I’m really frustrated and see no difference now in Yahoo and hotmail. Plus, I have to click something in order to get to the log in screen which was one less thing to do. The news was my favorite aspect and now it’s smaller than the ad, relecting, I suppose, Yahoo’s values.

Sign me one unhappy customer!

Signe | January 19th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

I don’t like this redesign at all. It’s hard to navigate, has way too much clutter, and runs too slowly. I don’t think the colors are attractive. The functionality of the site is now limited because the things I need Yahoo! to do are shunted underneath a lot of design elements.

I am also very disturbed by the “randomly selected to test” policy. If you want feedback, ask for it. To force people to beta-test things against their will, and to offer them not offer them a way to opt out presents a very bad image for Yahoo!. I didn’t like having the My Yahoo! redisign forced down my throat and I don’t like this.

Amber | January 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

I do not like it. I would STRONGLY suggest changing it back. You guys keep trying to “improve” things, but all you are doing is making it more complicated and annoying. STOP!!!! PLEASEEE!!!

Social networking | January 19th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

the M.www.yahoo.com look really good it look more like a nice social networking website, maybe yahoo is going social fron now on! I really think yahoo should be 1 Social networking website,so try to compete with face book not with google!

Joshua Luther | January 19th, 2009 at 5:31 pm

I have found that if you clear your cookies delete ur history and delete temp files it goes away

Bill | January 19th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

I don’t like it at all. Ask before you want people to use it. Lucky I found a way to change it back to the original. It really sucks.

Cec | January 19th, 2009 at 6:33 pm

I hate it more then the Jonas Brothers…

now thats saying a lot…

I really hate this nYahoo

I hate m.yahoo | January 19th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

http://www.m.yahoo.com BLOWS!

Barbara | January 19th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

I just now found this forum and realize I was not going nuts thinking something attacked my computer today.After spending several hours trying to figure out what the M stood for. Thinking I was attacked by some other domain. I do not like this new yahoo and I am not impressed that they can do this without your permission. They should at lease let you choose to opt in or out. I hate it and would like my original yahoo back. I have been using Yahoo since the beginning, but that can change real quick. Clearing out the cookies, etc. did not work for me either. I see it has worked for some. And I have read all these post and see some people like the new m.yahoo and some don’t. WE SHOULD OF HAD THE CHOICE. OR YAHOO SHOULD OF HAD THE RESPECT TO EMAIL AND ASK, WHICH THEY DIDN’T. VERY UNHAPPY WITH YAHOO. PLEASE GIVE US THE CHOICE TO CHANGE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL YAHOO.

moose | January 20th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

If yahoo switches to this new yahoo home page im switching to google or msn , the new page sucks , why would you want to fix something that wasnt broken?

moose | January 20th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

why would they have entertainment news over the top of the actual news? like any of us care about britney spears or j-lo , how stupid , you should fire the idiot who created this new yahoo homepage!!!

Annemarie | January 20th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Well, I just got hit with the new Yahoo. I hate it. I don’t know how to get my old yahoo back.

hlong1 | January 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

Did not like the new page, it’s like I was AHDH, and not being able to get anywhere that I wanted. If you want to try and copy google then sell out to them otherwise, make improvements on the homepage we have now.

hlong1 | January 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

For you people that hate this page like I do, the way I took it off was to delete my cache and cookies and got switched back

Wazup | January 21st, 2009 at 12:27 am

please give me back the old one. The new yahoo is vexing my soul

Mike | January 21st, 2009 at 5:16 am

I hate this page, if you guys don’t give me the choice for a home page like MSN or Google, I will stop using it and your mail.

Kbrew | January 21st, 2009 at 7:04 am

I was randomly selected to beta the new homepage. I am not a fan. The classic Yahoo homepage is so easy and comfortable to navigate. Yahoo, if you decide to roll this out please allow users to have the option to keep the old homepage.

Kel | January 21st, 2009 at 12:15 pm

I hate this thing. No option is given to go back to classic view like the old website. And suddenly this thing comes up which makes it not only hard to see messages, but you have to load them twice. The old applet was better where you saw some of your recent messages. I can’t even see the weather. If I wanted all this I’d go to My Yahoo. Its all there in the format I want, and the previous homepage was fine.

Jerry | January 21st, 2009 at 1:47 pm

I hate this new page! I was so glad to be directed to this blog – after I complained directly to Yahoo – to be consoled by otheres’ comments about how they think the new page sucks. I really hate it – for so many reasons. I have had Yahoo as my home page – and done virtually all my searches through Yahoo – since I first got on the internet more years ago than I can remember. People have tired to get me to go to Google or FireFox but I have been loyal to and satisfied with Yahoo. From my perspective, if Yahoo goes forward with this ne home page on a mandatory basis – Yahoo will have abandoned me – and I will (sadly) go elsewhere.
Why not leave the “classic” Yahoo alone as the default and offer 2-3 “my Yahoo” choices for alternative home pages. Those who may want to switch to one of those alternatives – good for them – but why force that on the rest of us loyal users and thus alienate us? Frankly, a really stupid business concept!!

Bill | January 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

YUK YUK YUK. Putrid Purple Color, No Link to MY YAHOO, Time and Date so light almost transparent. All these serices links that I could care less about. How about something we can customise to our wants and needs. I hate it. After 12 years with Yahoo if this is what your going to then, I’ll have to Consider going to MSN or GOOGLE.

Bill | January 21st, 2009 at 7:07 pm

I also hate the Idea that I’m forced to look at and deal with this without being asked or given the choice to be a BETA tester. Way to much CLUTTER.

Pete | January 21st, 2009 at 8:54 pm

Thanks for randomly switching me.
Thanks for making me think I had a virus.
Thanks for the half hour I lost figuring this out.

Thanks to you I’ll be using Google.

Jerks!

luis doval | January 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 pm

i want this yahoo new page now i loved, i can`t live with this new style bettr and more easy to browse

Wendy | January 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Hey, I don’t know if the people who are being tested now have this option or not but when your page is changed to the awful new yahoo page look up on the top right hand side of your screen for the link to switch back to classic view. I have that option now after leaving my comments on this page.

Hope this helps!

Linda | January 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm

I do not like the new page. With the old page I was able to place the cursor over my email and preview without clicking. Now I have to click on the email everytime. There is NO PREVIEW function. It also does not keep up with the # of new emails correctly. I feel like I waste a lot of time now getting in to the mail whereas before I could preview quickly and make the decision then whether or not I needed to go to the page. I do not like the new page.

Gordon | January 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 pm

This new “home page” is awful. I would like to describe it in words not fit to print on this column. DON’T MESS WITH THE OLD YAHOO “CLASSIC” PAGE! I miss my “instant window/view” to scan incoming e-mails without having to open the application. I miss my instantly at-hand stock quote feature; I miss my instantly posted top or latest items in world news, sports, etc.; all without having to “open an application”. I don’t even like the new colors. I will be glad when this test is over; and am truly sorry I was forced to ever take part in it. I use the classic YAHOO page almost exclusively; but if you go to this permanently, I will be making a change. Why do companies always think their customers want something new when the old product is just fine (or even better) and you are already well versed in it’s operation and features?

Frustrated to say the leaast-
Gordon

carie | January 22nd, 2009 at 6:01 pm

I HATE THE NEW PAGE! IT IS HORRIBLE AND UGLY. PLEASE, PLEASE PLEASE… give back the ‘Classic’ page… It is NOT a improvement, it actually makes my skin crawl. I will not use Yahoo as my main homepage if you keep this and make it so we have to use it. I will go to Google or somewhere other then having to use the disgusting new page. You need to have the option for people to choose, not force them into it. GET RID OF THIS PAGE.

carie | January 22nd, 2009 at 6:09 pm

I cleared my cache and I was able to get the Orginal Page back. Your new one closes me in where the Classic one (THE BEST ONE) leaves you open. Whoever thought this new page up, stop designing. It sucks.

Ellen | January 22nd, 2009 at 6:44 pm

I had it for a while and I want it back, please hurry with your testing, I don’t like the layout I’m looking at. :)

Kurt | January 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm

This is like Yahoo! for the computer illiterate. I personally liked the 90’s — I don’t; however, like being treated like I AM 90! You don’t need to reinvent the wheel guys — especially when you’re replacing it with a square. If this is made permanent, than I — a loyal user since around ‘97 — will feel betrayed by a cynical rebranding scheme — and go elsewhere. Not cool.

dan | January 23rd, 2009 at 7:17 am

I HATE the new homepage! I did give it the old college try but I don’t like the way it feels, it has that kiddie feel to it, it seems way slower, way too many clicks to get to the same places, and I really dont like how we are being basically highjacked into this beta version.
Now, I have been using yahoo for about 6 years now and I will change my homepage and use google instead if this new homepage goes into effect.

You also need an easier way to get out of the new beta home page once you are “chosen”.
I get rid of it by using “cc cleaner” which cleans my internet cache, so you can prolly do it by right-clicking on IE, then choosing internet properties and clearing the cache.

jerry | January 23rd, 2009 at 4:04 pm

I hate m.www.yahoo.com/ i had to switch to my yahoo for now, I hate to change email and everything, ” but i will”

umagwa | January 24th, 2009 at 4:58 am

Stop shoving designer crap at us. Easy to implement both. Hate the “M.YAHOO.COM.” “CHANGE”….phooey!

Al Bales | January 24th, 2009 at 9:44 am

After complaining I got my old homepage back. Don’t know how, it just showed up again when I turned my PC on today. Am delighted. After all the negative comments you should give up on changing to the new homepage as it really sucked!!!!!

not needed | January 24th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Please!!!! i like the old homepage for yahoo so much better, need less clicks to get to my mail.

Jon | January 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm

I love the new homepage! I want it and I want it now!!

Brian | January 25th, 2009 at 7:38 am

I cant stand the new homepage, and I don’t like how I was not asked if I wanted to be a part of the testgroup. This page showed up on a brand new computer and I thought there was something wrong with my computer. Anyway, you can add my name to the overwhelming majority who love the old page, hate the new one, and resent not being able to opt in/out. By the way, I think it’s interesting that the early posts of people who saw a picture of the page tought it looked great but those of use forced to use it are not fans. I want my old page back please.

Juan V | January 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am

I hate it! I want to go back how it was. I’m leaving yahoo and going to MSN.

Gordon F | January 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am

Where is the OPT out?

Kim | January 25th, 2009 at 5:08 pm

I have to agree with some of the posters here. My homepage switched to the “new” view in November. Didn’t like it back then, still don’t like it now. Give me back my old yahoo!

moiraesfate | January 25th, 2009 at 6:54 pm

Ok, this new layout sucks really bad. Give me my old yahoo back.

stan | January 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

I HATE THE NEW WEBPAGE AND WANT OUT OF IT. SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO OPT OUT OR I AM GOING TO GOOGLE.

Kayliegh | January 26th, 2009 at 9:11 pm

I’m gonna cancel my accounts, one of which I’ve had for almost 9 years, just because of this whole stupid homepage business. I sent one e-mail to the “feedback” thing & my page was back, now I go to open up my mail, and BOOM! gone! I’m really irritated about this. I hate the new yahoo h/p. If anyone that makes these decisions would bother even reading the first line of the posts that have gone up since this whole mess started, they would have changed it by now. Anyone that knows me can now find me at my same screen name @hotmail.com. Sorry yahoo, I’m disappointed.

adam smith | January 26th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

Since the elusive link to switch to the classic view comes and goes, and there’s no option in the settings to stay with the old look like sites like myspace have, I am setting my homepage on all my browsers to GOOGLE.COM If yahoo ever gets off their asses and lets people use classic I will switch back, but as it stands now I am done with yahoo.

Long live Google!

Kim | January 27th, 2009 at 6:06 am

Thanks but no thanks. I realize that it is difficult to adapt to change, but this is not one that I want to see. I have used Yahoo since day one and have not ventured away to the other search engines. I like Yahoo just like it was and found it very user friendly. The new page is too time consuming for me. If the users want the new “fluff” then give them an option to customize their My Yahoo to suit them but leave the main page like it was. We have plenty of new things out in the business world that requires us to relearn – rethink and readjust. We don’t need to be slowed down by a new Yahoo. We like things exactly how they have always been. Luckily only one of my three computers was chosen because if the others were randomly selected, I would definitely have made the switch over to “GOOGLE”.

John Weaver | January 27th, 2009 at 9:41 am

Yahoo, I really hate this new layout you have forced upon me, at random, without any prompting or request to sign-up for beta testing like you have done previously. No mention of what you are doing or how to reverse it (you have to delete your cookies and restart btw).
The left hand side is useless and wastes space. I use Yahoo as a link to my mail and news/sport articles, the previous layout was much better for this. I really like the old mail notification of new messages which expands to show them when you hover over it and launches mail when you click on it. One point you could fix is that it doesn’t always open up the email you clicked on within yahoo mail but it’s still much better than this new layout.
I use Firefox 3.05 and it does work, however the layout is incredibly cramped and bitty and looks really ugly in my opinion.

willancrum | January 27th, 2009 at 10:37 am

I was comfortable with the old version of Yahoo. I didn’t appreciate having to click multiple times to read my mail, and then having to go look for answers why there is no “change back button” to this new format that randomly happens. This is my personal email – please don’t make me switch to Google or another search engine.

Sally Librarian | January 27th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

Have your engineers ever heard of usability testing? I can’t tell you how many people here in our library are completely annoyed with this test site. Even wiping out cookies and going back to http://www.yahoo.com is only a temporary solution for us, as the m.www.yahoo.com site comes back.

Angel | January 28th, 2009 at 3:22 am

I’ve been chosen to be tested on and I wish I wasn’t, no one will help me change back. YOu picked me without my permission and than won’t help me out when all I want is the old yahoo back, which I have at work, but am not allowed to have at home. I think that shows awful customer consideration.

Angel | January 28th, 2009 at 3:27 am

lol after making my comment I read above and EVERYONE seems to be upset that you pick us at random and force us to test a product most do not seem to like. What I find rude is that we were not asked and then when we go through the trouble of finding out if we can change it no one will help us. If you just wanted to test the site, fine, but once someone expresses dissatisfaction the proper good customer service response would be to help them rather than torture them more.
Google is looking better to me at the moment.

Kevin | January 28th, 2009 at 4:58 am

Hate it. Find it amazingly frustrating that I can’t get rid of it. Never appreciate being forced to accept a change, particularly to a Homepage that I can’t get out of.

Bob | January 28th, 2009 at 5:58 pm

m.yahoo.com
I hate it..I have to clear out all my cookies to back to the original homepage.
If yahoo keeps changing my homepage I will bookmark MSN.com as my new homepage…
We’ll see how they like loosing customers!

Mr. M | January 28th, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Why for the love of God did I have to be put on your bucket list of guinea pigs to be forced into using the “new and improved” Y! homepage. I really really dislike it. Poor layout, and the advertising is nothing but distracting. At least make the ad smaller? Geeez!

I’ve tried everything I can to delete the “m” from the yahoo.com address, but it’s being forced on my like a bad liberal socialistic president. Welcome to the new America!

2thumbsdown | January 28th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

welcome to yahoo for dummies! the new page sucks, period. oh and by the way, thnx for volunteering me, jerks!

JohnnyB | January 28th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

one word for the new and improved homepage….FAIL

smiley | January 28th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Two thumbs DOWN. First, not being warned was annoying. Second, not being asked whether I wanted to be a test subject was irritating. Third, being told after I requested to be changed back, that it wasn’t possible was downright infuriating. I’ve used Yahoo! for my homepage for several years. But no more. I’m switching back to my old one – or find another. I am one unhappy customer and I’m not so smley anymore.

susan | January 29th, 2009 at 12:03 am

HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT, GET THAT STUPID M. OUT OF MY HOMEPAGE….. I REALLY HATE IT….~!!

Wes | January 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pm

I’ve spent many, many hours trying to get this out of my daughters computer. Why are you doing this to us? Why do you hate us and treat us this way. We’ve always had a deep respect and Love for you. Please, …make this right and give us an answer how to go back to what we Love – http://www.yahoo.com

Nastase | January 29th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

I hate it sooo much. Please let me switch back

susan | January 29th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

HATE IT, IT SUCKS, WANT THE OLD ONE BACK, YAHOO IS REALLY STARTING TO SUCK, GOING TO START CHECKING OUT OTHER OPTIONS FOR EMAIL, BECAUSE THIS REALLY SUCKS!!!!
AND THE SCREWED UP THING IS JUST ONE DAY IT CHANGED NO INFO THEY WERE DOING IT, THEY JUST DID….THEY REALLY ARE SCREWED UP FOR DOING THAT!! YAHOO I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SAY THIS BUT I AM GOING TO PUT YOU RIGHT DOWN THERE WITH SUCKY AOL

Sheri | January 30th, 2009 at 3:52 am

I am one the test subjects for the new page, and I hate it. Why change a good thing. Some of us want to keep the yahoo clasic. I like my red yahoo. You know, from an advertising standpoint Red on white stands out much better than the purple. Purple is a nice color, but red is better. If you want people to remember you yahoo is, keep the red. Has McDonalds changed their logo? What about Wendy’s? What about Taco Bell. Word of advice, don’t change your logo. Also, I like my blue and white classic page. I don’t want it changed. Maybe you give users the option to keep it if they want. If not I will probably go to google. Sorry.

Y! #1 | January 30th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

Why do you people have so much negative comments about this new Yahoo!’s homepage style? It’s really not that bad! This homepage style will make things easier for us on tasks :) It’s about time that Yahoo! changed their logo into something else. Besides, it looks better in purple than red! :D I don’t see anything bad with that.

Glenn | January 31st, 2009 at 7:16 am

Don’t like it (http://m.www.yahoo.com/).
No warning led me to believe I’d been redirected to a phishing or a spoof site. Not cool.
So,which is it? Real or spoof, and is there REALLY any benefit to users?

Jeffrey | January 31st, 2009 at 9:15 am

I’ve noticed nearly every positive comment about this new layout are from people that have NOT tried it, and nearly every negative comment is from people that HAVE tried it.
I was selected as an unwitting tester of this monster and after having been forced to use it I am extreamly glad to see they have returned my service to the old way. That new system was horrible!

George | January 31st, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Hey it looks nice
You guys should make a poll
Who likes it, who doesnt.
Probably the people who hate it will win.
1 They will bother to complain about it
2 So many complainers here

It doesnt seem too hard to navigate
And PS whats up with choosing random users to test this on?
Bec on IE8 Beta When i open yahoo
the m yahoo comes up
but while in private the regular one opens
Then on Opera the regular one comes up
Explain plz

And quote…

I want the old yahoo format back please can you give it to me this one is terrible. The new one

Ciotee | October 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 am

Dear Yahoo,

Please fire Tapan Bhat for screwing us by making us use this stupid new homepage that everyone hates.

Thank you.
Ciotee

cathy | October 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am

WANT THE OLD YAHOO BACK JUST DELETE COOKIES.
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
DELETE COOKIES
I POSTED ON 10/19 HOW TO GET OLD YAHOO BACK JUST DELETE COOKIES.DON’T ANYONE READ COMMENTS ANYMORE????????

End Quote

I really want to curse these people out
Dont they have any respect
No wonder this blog has so many posts alot of spam.
And those cursing Tapan Bhat…
Think of him of the messenger not a Monarch who commanded this all to happen on his whim

Ps All those who hate the new version try Opera
http://www.opera.com/
I dont believe you are using it and still have the new version of Yahoo

George | January 31st, 2009 at 12:50 pm

If Opera doesnt work try a different browser.

One more quote

Kevin | October 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am

It’s all been said…

There are far too many clicks needed to get to my e-mail and other features. In a world that has conditioned us for fast food, even one extra click is like watching water in a pot till it boils!

OUT WITH THE NEW AND IN WITH THE OLD!!!

Yahoo!, listen to us customers before we flee to the competition (by the way, they’re reading these comments). How much more testing do you need? Act now; act fast before we do!

End quote

Out with the new and in with the old is wrong
Just wanted to say this
Its suppose to be
“Out with the old and in with the new”

George | January 31st, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Srry cathy
Didnt see what you meant
cathy said a tempory solution is delete cookies
it works according to her

But try a different browser
I assume all those with myahoo have ie not sure about firefox chrome

you could try opera
as i said when i used opera the myahoo didnt come up
but on ie8 beta it came up when not in private
you could try chrome, firefox, etc if it doesnt work

they might not be your favorite browsers but if you hate the new yahoo that much it might be worth it

And all those with so much hate for it Explain with details what do you hate it will help the yahoo company customize it to your likings

George | January 31st, 2009 at 1:08 pm

Uhh i wish i can edit my posts got so many comments on my mind

Just because certain people arent use to the idea of a differnt format it doesnt mean you should curse the yahoo company out.

It happened in history alot of times

One tip yahoo company change things slowly and you should get approval

Rafael | January 31st, 2009 at 3:01 pm

What in the name is the new website all about? it looks like crap and put a link to change to old website cuz ur pissing me off. I am about to change my homepage and search enginge because of this stupidity

KW | January 31st, 2009 at 7:32 pm

I don’t like it, don’t know if this is a spoof site. Keep it up, I’ll switch to Google. I understand updating your site (the updating is not the issue I have with this), but this is a crappy way to do it. No warning to your loyal users. Yeah don’t like the way this is being tested/presented.

Bob Spiteri | February 1st, 2009 at 7:31 am

I believe so many people are upset because this beta page was forced upon them and they are not being told how to get back to their old one. Even if they like the new page, your going to get gripes about it because of this.

If you don’t like http://m.www.yahoo.com and want your old page (www.yahoo.com or http://www.myyahoo.com), simply clock the unwanted URL.

In IE, click Tools then Internet Options.
Ensure your home page is set to the desired page e.g., http://www.yahoo.com

Click on the Security Tab then on Restircted Sites.

Click on the [Site] button and then add the unwanted URL to the blank below ‘Add this website to the zone’ (note, if you are already on the unwanted website, http://m.www.yahoo.com will already appear in the blank, if not simply change it).

Click on the [Add] button to restrict the site then click on the [Close] button then [OK] then close your browser.

When you next relaunch your browser, the redirect to m.www.yahoo.com will be restricted and the browser will default to the URL set as your home Page on the general tab.

Bob
Webmaster@theGROOVEshack.com

O'Brian | February 1st, 2009 at 8:06 am

You can not go back to the old page if you were selected as a test site. I hate the new page as it takes 2 or more clicks now for me to get to the sites I use on yahoo.
Here is yahoo’s response to my request to get the old page back:

Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Homepage.
I understand you want to switch back to the old Yahoo! Homepage.
In line with Yahoo!’s standard procedure, we randomly expose test pages (m.www.yahoo.com) to a fraction of our users and appreciate your patience during this process.
Unfortunately, there is no option to return to the previous version. Testing is an ongoing process across the Yahoo! network because of our desire to improve our products and serve you better. There is no completion date set at this time. I apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

alfredo | February 1st, 2009 at 10:16 am

I don’t like the new homepage. Don’t like the layout. I prefer Yahoo! the way it is now. I have my e-mail in classic mode because the new e-mail, although it has it’s advantages because of one click display of e-mails on the bottom and constantly refreshes, is too slow because of the autorefresh feature. I really don’t mind hitting the “refresh” tab myself. So please, if you’re gonna change the display anyway, allow us to have a classic option like you did on the e-mail. Thank You.

LandStander | February 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm

I would not mind a new layout if it was actually GOOD.
The new home page is disorganized.
But worst of all, IT IS SLOW!

I am still on dial-up, so now I have to wait a couple minutes just to check my mail!
The problem is all the clutter on the huge home page. Once I get into Mail Classic, everything starts to move at a reasonable speed.

Give us the option of changing the page back.

jthm_guitarist | February 1st, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Who cares about the colors?? I hate it because it is so much slower than the old page!

Michelle | February 1st, 2009 at 10:28 pm

Can anyone please tell me how to get the new yahoo homepage? I really really love it and i always used Yahoo. I tried everything to find the new page but i have no luck yet. Aol already updated their version, but i don’t even used aol page.

Please please email me how to get this back

thank you

Glenn & Agnes | February 2nd, 2009 at 6:56 am

Dear yahoo, On our computer we have my
side and my wife’s side. I have the old yahoo page and Agnes has the
new page you are trying out. I have been trying to get it on my side but
have not succeeded.I like the new yahoo lay out . I have read a lot of
the notes people write in, that’s terrible the responses some people
write. I like the page very much, would you please put it to use in the
future ? I can’t wait…! Thank you for the change we need change
in our lives. Just like our new president Barack Obama is trying to do
in our country. Change is good..!
members since 1998

Ed Bejarana | February 2nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm

I don’t like the new interface. I especially don’t like being dumped into the test site without having the chance to opt out. I have been a loyal Yahoo user since the beginning (literally). It is not fair that users be forced into something, what ever happened to options and user input?

If you want to run a test, then send out solicitations to a beta test team and run focus groups, don’t take over my ip address and force me to use a new Yahoo home page. Very un cool.

Ed Bejarana

Sharon Love | February 3rd, 2009 at 5:36 pm

please get my old homepage back. this new one stinks. trying to get to my mail is awful. please take this mess away.

No No | February 4th, 2009 at 9:31 am

hi. this is awesum

jojo | February 5th, 2009 at 12:20 am

I deleted cookies and switched back–If yahoo goes into my computer again without my persmission-I’m onto google forever–Shame on these dumb dumbs. Wake-up YAHOO you are self destructing! You are destroying your own brand by showing such disregard to loyal users. I hope the powers that be at yahoo somehow get wind of how this was done and how many users they have lost. for the last 2 months or so I used google search engine –then I found out how to switch back but i’ll tell you–I liked google and may switch back on principle alone. I know this–Yahoo–you touch my competer one more time without my permission and I will NEVER use you again. shame on you yahoo’s. Your test was just RUDE. By the way–I sent 3 or 4 e-mails and NEVER rec’d a response back.

EMG | February 5th, 2009 at 11:09 am

The new home page design is the worst! All icons ? Go back to the original design that made you famous!

1. People don’t care about cute icons, they are confusing and just take up valuable web real estate.
2. People are creatures of habit, the old layout was intense information but was displayed in a categorized way that just plain worked.
3. If it’s not broke don’t fix it!
4. I work in the industry and know personally many people that use or “did use” Yahoo as their home page, most have or are switching to other alternatives.
5. I want my home page to stay consistent or very close to it.

Go back to the original and save your Company millions of dollars or just keep the now more confusing and cute icon design with less information available, and more clicks required to get to information that used to be right there on the homepage.

Just one long time users opinion, I have been with Yahoo since the beginning.

ravedirge | February 5th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

i hate it

Dan | February 5th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Get this crap off of my PC. I like the old site! Give me an option and don’t force me to redirect

Sully | February 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Horrible!! And the fact that I can’t revert to the old site or that I wasn’t asked to change pisses me off to no end. Navigating to sites is a nightmare and items that I used to go to are burried. Whoever designed it should be fired…IT SUCKS! Unless it gets changed back I will find another site to homepage and do 90% of my internet browsing from.

CTS | February 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

What was so obnoxious about this was that I wasn’t given an option anywhere that I could easily see to switch back. At least Ebay gives you that option. So I did a Google search (since they did it, not going to use their search engine for it–passive aggressive I know but I can do that here) and found out how.

The layout that they switched to 4-5 years ago works fantastically…gives me all the stuff I want in ONE place, all the links I need out in the open. It’s what I’m familiar with…like getting into my favorite jeans…comfortable.

There appears to be some kind of trend to making sites “simpler” by making them more convoluted. Facebook did the same thing and I still haven’t bothered to really check out how the new layout works since it overall looks like a twisted mess and takes more clicks to get where I want. I’m a 34yr. old I.T. person so it definitely isn’t a question of age/skill level.

Verdict: Please don’t make it like BMW’s I-Drive. Just because something appears to be more simple, doesn’t mean that actually using it is. It was stupid enough that I had to click on the “Expand story” button every time I wanted to finishing reading a news article here and thankfully there is now a setting that overrides the automatic function of this.

Stewart Nunn | February 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

Hey I have been using this test page that was forced on me. This solution that Bob gave Works.

I believe so many people are upset because this beta page was forced upon them and they are not being told how to get back to their old one. Even if they like the new page, your going to get gripes about it because of this.

If you don’t like http://m.www.yahoo.com and want your old page (www.yahoo.com or http://www.myyahoo.com), simply clock the unwanted URL.

In IE, click Tools then Internet Options.
Ensure your home page is set to the desired page e.g., http://www.yahoo.com

Click on the Security Tab then on Restircted Sites.

Click on the [Site] button and then add the unwanted URL to the blank below ‘Add this website to the zone’ (note, if you are already on the unwanted website, http://m.www.yahoo.com will already appear in the blank, if not simply change it).

Click on the [Add] button to restrict the site then click on the [Close] button then [OK] then close your browser.

When you next relaunch your browser, the redirect to m.www.yahoo.com will be restricted and the browser will default to the URL set as your home Page on the general tab.

Bob
Webmaster@theGROOVEshack.com

dave | February 6th, 2009 at 7:47 am

You should not force people into your beta testing. I have been using Yahoo since the mid 90’s and this is the second time you have added me to your beta testing with out asking. No more I have switched to google as my home page. I can configure it the way I want.

g weeks | February 6th, 2009 at 9:49 am

I do not like the new yahoo homepage. please give me back the old one. Thanks

Bruce | February 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am

The response I received about getting my old home page back: “There is currently no option to return to the previous version.”

Well, I have another option, which I just exercised. Today, I switched to igoogle and gmail. I refuse to be subjected any further to this m.www.yahoo abortion. Congratulations Yahoo for running off another long, long time customer.

cj carey | February 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

is their any way to switch it back if we dont like it

Jennifer | February 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm

OK. I don’t like this new homepage.

1) Email link is on the left hand side
— This is very inconvenient for me coz I’m right handed and prefer the email on the right. Maybe I’m just really used to this but it doesn’t make any sense

2) My App section is really annoying. It takes too long to upload and it bounces back and forth…hate that.

3) finally, I think it’s this sense of “betrayal” that you changed something that I feel like homepage was part of my desktop…it’s hard to explain but it’s definitely emotional and very upsetting.

JD White | February 6th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

I’ve had Yahoo as my home page for going on 12 years but if I’m forced to use the m.www.yahoo.com format I’m switching to Google. Sorry but that design just doesn’t work for me.

JD White | February 6th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

OK guys new design sux. If I’m forced to keep it I’m going to Google & not renew my paid email services.

Mark | February 6th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

Listen,
You pull this fast one on my computer, with this new home web page. Who do you think we are, a bunch of dumb asses? This change could be due to some virus. I have seen the formats of web pages change all off a sudden due to a virus. If you are going to do this, at least announce it to people who use Yahoo.com as their home page. Just don’t change it all at once. I was not happy with this unexpected change. I keep scanning my computer to see if there is a virus on my system.

I am not happy at all with this change. It goes to show you how one organization can just do what they want with a flick of a switch, and not show justification for what the consumer wants. Next time you decide to make a change, take a vote first.

Jenni | February 7th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Well, If you were trying to lose customers I think you have succeded. I have had yahoo forever but my husband, a msm/google user, just signed up for yahoo after years of ME telling him how great it is, and you guys pulled this stupid stunt on him. He was so frustrated and angry after 3 days of not being able to navigate ANYWHERE. He tried everything to get back the regular homepage, figured it was a virus and reinstalled windows. He will never use you again and from reading these emails I think you stupidly have lost many, many longtime users! Someone should be fired is all I can say. Whoever had this bright idea of forcing this beta on people without an opt out. People are so angry I doubt many of them even bothered to try the beta verion at all. Baddddd marketing!!

P.S. I prefer the old page myself.

-- | February 7th, 2009 at 7:57 pm

If you wanna be GOOGLE, let them buy you. I can’t fathom why you are pulling this hijacking crap 6 months down the line but get the HINT!

1. The left column for the regular services WORKS GREAT! Use menus is you have to combine to accomodate sub-categories and stop DRIVE-BY ANIMATIONS! Send them to Satan, he like them!

2. All you folks in the Bay Area seem to think all of America is a sea of high speed WI-FI! Get your heads out of the clouds and finish your spaghetti and beer…this M can’t even run fast at 256K.

3. This is as crooked as Lombard Street, this random attack and after the AJAX exploit in Yahoogroups a 3 years or so back I’ll be damned if anybody wants to go there again!

You might take pride in having a diverse workforce and I do too but stop hiring rejects with no brains.

John Ricci | February 7th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

I hate your new page, more importantly I hate the dictatorial way you go about it. I have had yahoo as my home page since the Yahoo existed or pretty much. You have so many million users , it must be OK to treat them like serfs and ninkinpoops. I am switching to igoogle.
John Ricci

Andrew | February 8th, 2009 at 3:41 am

To quote everyone else. This new yahoo is horrible. While I can do with change, this change was a very bad one. Unless yahoo switches back, I will switch to a new email/homepage.

Becky | February 8th, 2009 at 7:33 am

I appreciate that you’re testing your new home page design; but I did not sign up to be switched, and I prefer your old design to the new one. I can’t seem to find a way to get back to the old design. Can you please help me?

Christina | February 9th, 2009 at 12:07 am

The new page looks good but I really hate it. I like the old one better and the worst part is I cant figure out how to change it back. So I think if you guys are going to change things that you should give us the choice of changing it back.

Parag Shah | February 9th, 2009 at 1:02 am

Been a bucket tester for the third or fourth time now (and no, I dont mind that). For all those cribbing abt the switch back option, it has been provided in the latest beta I saw today. Also added is the ‘add application’ button and lesser purple. And yay! for the scrolling options in bottom right.

Thats quite some improvement over the previous beta, but more is needed!

For one, the Add Application has very few applications, we need more there. The messenger app seen in the current Yahoo page is missing. I wonder why. It helped me see if any of my friends were online without launching a new application (Yahoo Messenger) or even signing into chat on Mail/Web-messenger. That way, if needed I signed into Y! Messenger. Please re-add this feature in the new version.

Secondly, the current Yahoo home page has mouse over features; the beta does not. It saves everyone a lot of clicks and from my point of view scores more on ‘Usability.’ For e.g. In the current version, I can mouse over ‘Mail’ to see the subject of the new email. In the beta, I have to click to do the same thing.

All said, I like this less-purple beta version more than the previous one! And definitely much better than the current bulky page.

Greg | February 9th, 2009 at 7:59 am

We liked yahoo just the way it was. We don’t like the new version, not to mention th fact that nobody asked us if we wanted it changed.

Barbara Egan | February 9th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

Hi:

Problem with your new webpage is you it overrides the old one. I recieved it involuntarily and it took me three days to figure out a workaround. Not fair. I don’t have tome for games.

john b. | February 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

This is the e-mail I received in response to my questions about the new homepage. I had no idea that I was a guinea pig for this. The switched me over without any notification or my consent. And then they lied to me by telling me that there was no way to go back to the old homepage. Well gee, fellas, there is. This is B.S..We should be able to send them a cookie so we can give them something they don’t like and “can’t” get rid of. I’ve been with Yahoo for over 10 years, but I think I’ll be moving on now. Contacting their advertisers is sounding pretty good right about now.

In line with Yahoo!’s standard procedure, we randomly expose test pages
to a fraction of our users and appreciate your patience during this
process. Testing is an ongoing process across the Yahoo! network because
of our desire to improve our products and serve you better.

The Yahoo! Homepage is undergoing changes in appearance, functionality,
and service. At this time, there is no option to return to the previous
version and no completion date set at this time.

Now, on the left side of the page under My Applications, you can preview
your Yahoo!, AOL, or Gmail email accounts, check out movies & local
events, see your horoscope and weather, or track your stock portfolios
at a quick glance.

On the right side of the page under Yahoo! Services are quick links to
your favorite Yahoo! services. Click the service you want, and we’ll
take you there.

Now, that I have addresses your first concern, let’s move on your second
concern.

Concern 2:
———-

Access to the test version of the Yahoo! Homepage is currently enabled
only for a random sample of Yahoo! users. We are not providing
additional users with access at this time, but have posted some
background information on our corporate blog at:

http://ycorpblog.com/2008/09/17/testing-testing-a-new-yahoo-com/

Please feel free to check back on the blog during the coming months for
updates on when the new Homepage will be available for more people.

We hope the above information has helped. If you have additional
questions regarding this matter, please reply to this message and I will
assist you. Your satisfaction is very important to us and we truly
appreciate your patronage of Yahoo!.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Homepage.

Regards,

Vibby

john b. | February 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

I agree with the person above about this “random” test reeking of illegality. They (yahoo) did indeed make changes to our computers without our consent. Lawsuit? I’m in.

Linda | February 10th, 2009 at 7:25 am

Glad to see I’m not alone in feeling violated by being forced into a new Homepage! When I type in http://www.yahoo.com, I am redirected to m.www.yahoo.com (thus the new crappy homepage!) I’ve tried clearing cookies, history, EVERYTHING, restarting, rebooting, revising, revisiting, reliving, rebelling… wasting A LOT of time on this and STILL get the same thing! I thought I had a virus or something horrible. WHAT GIVES???

replica | February 10th, 2009 at 11:55 am

Seriously, it’s ugly, and I’m sick of having to do extra clicks just to access my mail accounts. And way to force it on users instead of letting ones who want to opt-in do so. Are you guys taking bad business tips from Livejournal? Because this was about just a stupid a move as all the shit livejournal has pulled lately.

I’ve used yahoo! mail for years, and even chose it over gmail when that came out and everyone was ready to have its babies, because I’ve always found gmail retarded, but wow, I think it just became less retarded than yahoo.

-- | February 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am

Linda and others: DELETE THE BOOKMARK(S) for Yahoo! completely and restore them later after the correct page has returned. I don’t know why but IE Favorites (bookmarks) and COOKIES (cached information in virtual memory) SEEM to have some kind of relation.

shariS | February 10th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

You should really give an option to keep the old web page if we want. I am considering switching to google and it looks like you may lose a lot of others as well.

Robert Odenbaugh | February 11th, 2009 at 8:43 am

I wish you people could find something better to do with your time. Instead of trying to fix things that are not broke. Other words please stop making changes inside my PC. I never voluntered myself or my PC to be your ginny pig for your testing. I request to be removed from test database. You people really peeve me off !!!!!!!!!!!!

Rick Florez | February 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm

I too was switched without my knowledge. At first I thought it might be that my computer was hacked. I was not happy when I found out what had happened. I thought the new homepage was awful, but after looking at it a while, it’s really pretty decent. They still have everything I use on the new home page, just rearranged a little, and honestly, a little cleaner design. I find that I now need to do less scrolling than before.

Yes, I am still upset that I wasn’t told of the change before hand, and given an opportunity to opt in or out, but Yahoo really does have the right to redesign their home page whenever they want to. Yahoo is certainly not the first site to do so. My guess is that if they made it optional, user acceptance would have been a lot better. Humans are creatures of habit, and don’t generally like their habits changed without it being their choice.

Anyway, they can count me as a member of the “slightly prefer the new look” group.

Kris | February 12th, 2009 at 11:34 am

I really really hate this new homepage. I am offended at being forced to partake in a random study. I do not want it. I want to be unrandomized. this is ridiculous. Yahoo had absolutely no right to make changes to my computer without first contacting me and receiving my consent.

BruceR | February 13th, 2009 at 1:30 am

I am absolutely amazed with all this feedback and the fact I am very negatively annoyed by the new website that yahoo hasn’t done something. I can’t imagine running a company this way.

It’s like my favorite pizza place has starting putting anchovies on a random selection of pizzas and you couldn’t return it after you bought it. Have these people completely lost their minds?

Aurelia Marvin | February 13th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

I am so annoyed by this “new homepage”!!!! What the heck is this about anyway? No one asked ME if I want to change my homepage!!! shouldn’t that be MY choice? I don’t like it one bit and I don’t like being “randomly” selected for such a thing EITHER. I’m use to what I like or I’d have changed my homepage MYSELF a long time ago. Maybe I should NOW…i mean you’ve already made the decision for me, right???? THAT IS NOT FAIR!!! No more tricks like this PLEASE!!! I want the old stuff back and I’m keeping my old email too…..I thought that new version was horrible…just like this new homepage…Obviously, everyone else seems to agree with me. Take me OFF the list of people you want to “experiment” with…..thanks but no thanks!

Ichi | February 14th, 2009 at 8:31 am

If customer satisfaction is of importance to the Yahoo company mission, imposing a new homepage on unsuspecting customers is a huge step in the wrong direction. At least allow users the option to preview and make the decision for themselves. The individual(s) who sponsored this stunt should be removed. Why make a product less user-friendly?

Sam | February 14th, 2009 at 8:56 am

I hated to delete all of my browsing history files to have to go back to the “Classic” look but I did.

If it switches to the m.yahoo home page again I will be looking for another home page site. Any suggestions?

din | February 14th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

Same here. I don’t like too much graphic, it is so slow. why can’t you make it simple like the other competitor simple and easy to use!

I don’t like that the classic yahoo page changes to m.yahoo all the time it drives me crazy.

Do something about this

l holman | February 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm

i changed to google…like you i was able to get the old yahoo back but had to find out on my own how to do it..yahoo offered no suggestions..

i love google..takes getting use to..but they don’t tell you have no choice in the mater of your own homepage(like yahoo told me)…well gl to all

Boogie | February 14th, 2009 at 4:12 pm

If I want something new I’ll look for it. The reason I use Yahoo is because I’m familiar with it. I like a classic toolbar with words not icons. Go ahead and mess with it. I can always switch to a different browser, its up to you, Yahoo.

Jimbo | February 14th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

I hate the new Yahoo homepage and want to go back. Who needs to be contacted to voice my disapproval?

Joey | February 14th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

don’t fix something that isn’t wrong you idiots, if you folks don’t return the old layout i’ll just use GOOGLE as my homepage… freakin idiots.

Person | February 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am

I HATE NEW YAHOO!!!!! PLZ CHANGE IT BACK!!!!!! WHY CANT WE JUST KEEP THE OLD ONE!!! I LOVED THE OLD YAHOO, IT WAS WAY MORE ORGANIZED AND EASY TO USE!! PLZ CHANGE IT BACK!!

~Thank You! :)

Change is hard | February 15th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

I hate the new yahoo home page. It makes me want to us Opera. Let me have my old one back.

tim falter | February 15th, 2009 at 8:41 pm

I hate the new site and the interface for the mail from the front page… please make an option to stay with the old and quit screwing with us… every freekin time you do this I move to google untill you fix it…

Jasmina | February 16th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

I’m extremly mad that you would change my homepage layout without asking i hate this new one and i want an option to use the old one im extremly annoyed with this change and will encourage friends to stop using yahoo if they dont give me the option of whatever yahoo i want i prefer the old one this new one is stupid and slow! >:(

Sonja | February 17th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

I had the new website and absolutely loved it. I just cleared my cookies (which needed clearing) and now can’t get the new home page back. Can you tell me how to get it back please?

David | February 18th, 2009 at 10:19 am

You folks ever heard of New Coke? Remember what a tremendous success that was?

I wonder what the % is — like vs dislike. Just a quick “eyeball” test tells me most people DO NOT LIKE IT and, in fact, were just fine with the Classic view. It has worked for me for years and years. I don’t need or want buttons for AOL/IM/weather whatever. I can bookmark that IF I WANTED IT. The ads are very slow to load and the frames are do not display correctly.

In summary, please don’t goof around with something that wasn’t broken to begin with. At the very least, give your users the option of Classic vs New. Then see which get used more frequently.

Mike | February 18th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

The words are written over each other it’s a mess.

pmomont | February 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Du nouveau pour concurrencer Google ?
En tout cas la page est plus “vendeuse” que la home du plus gros moteurs ! Mais elle s’apparente toujours à un portail plutôt qu’un moteur.

Patrice Momont | February 18th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

So fun and beautiful like Google home page, but it’s a portail home page as a search engine.

Matthew Lemon | February 19th, 2009 at 5:46 am

The m.yahoo.com “new” homepage sucks eggs. GET RID OF THE STUPID THING!!! There is nothing wrong with the standard Yahoo home page. Like the old saw goes, “If it aint broke…DON’T FIX IT!”

Billy | February 19th, 2009 at 9:48 am

New beta page is great some, people just don,t like CHANGE! get of your you know what and give some thing a try

whovian63 | February 20th, 2009 at 10:20 am

To get to the old yahoo type in http://www.yahoo.com/?nm=1 in the address bar.

Jerry Albers | February 20th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

I feel the new site really sucks. Sorry guys….but for me it is slower than my Grandmother, and she’s been dead 40 years. It is silly to have to make several steps to check mail, and when I type in a search, it would be faster if I walked to the library….and it’s 12 miles from here. I liked the clasic Yahoo, but if the new one is what we will be stuck with…..it’s Google time!!!

Loren | February 21st, 2009 at 10:47 am

If this site actually makes it as the new yahoo site you’ve lost yet another visitor. I know I might not be much, but judging from the resounding screams in this blog, you’ll probably lose a bunch more. I’m not sure this is a good business model for you guys, especially when you’re already in financial trouble.

This is not an aesthetic issue, it’s about loss of content. Not only did you impose a beta test on users without asking or allowing them to opt-out (you lost serious points for that, don’t underestimate how lame that is), but you’ve removed about 60% of the information from the front page– most of which is the reason I keep yahoo as my homepage to begin with. I think you should have your UI designers stop, take a deep breath, and take a look at *why* users have Yahoo as their homepage. You’ll probably find that getting rid of information to make it look “cleaner” defeats the whole purpose of the homepage to begin with.

Steven Villarreal | February 21st, 2009 at 8:14 pm

This is exactly the problem with you guys. There is nothing wrong with the original inteface and your wanting to fix something that is not broke. As a shareholder, we are getting are ass kicked, not by the homepage but because we can not figure out how to properly market and sell search, etc. Leave the damn interface alone and spend time on what counts. Geesh!

Steven Villarreal | February 21st, 2009 at 8:18 pm

And by the way…haven’t you guys ever heard of Change Management? Notify your customers first about a scheduled change then implement it. But no, you guys just throw out there. What kinda of reaction did you expect?

Matt | February 22nd, 2009 at 7:40 am

I don’t like the new homepage and was wondering if there is a way to switch back to the old one.

Aubrey | February 22nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm

how do i get the new yahoo home page back????What is thr URL????? I love the new yahoo home page!!!!!!

Barbara | February 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm

If the new page were and improvement, well great. BUT it is not. It is horrible. Come on, you can do better than that. I really liked the old page–what was wrong with it?? PLEASE don’t go with that ugly page.

Leo | February 23rd, 2009 at 10:26 pm

I do not like the new layout I prefer the old one It is more practical and easier to use,

Thank You Leo,

frank knutson | February 24th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

what a headache ! I like the old relyable classic yahoo. Can you give me the classic back ?

Dan | February 25th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

Don’t like the new web page. Please don’t change it.

Neal Konneker | March 1st, 2009 at 9:45 am

New page is crap. I prefer the old one and do not appreciate not having the option to go back.

Neal

Dan | March 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

The new format sucks beyond belief. And to think you would change something we loyal Yahoo! users have been using for over a decade against our will is annoying beyond belief. The new movie page is goofy too. And now you changed the way we find theaters in our area. There is no link for ‘more theaters’ to expand your search in case the movie you want to see is only playing in another town nearby. Don’t you people at Yahoo! do any user testing? Or do you just put 10 geeks in a room and let them decide what is best for EVERYONE.

Daren | March 3rd, 2009 at 9:06 am

I do not like the new site’s format, especially since there is no politics link accessible on the front page. However, what I dislike even more is 1) that I was included in the beta-testing without my permission, and 2) that I cannot seem to get the “old” Yahoo home page back. Although I’ve been using Yahoo as my home page since the 1990s, perhaps it is time to change.

A Waiser | March 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Absulutely hatee it. And yahoo does not allow opt outs. I am changing my home page.

mmaskowski | March 4th, 2009 at 7:29 pm

Your new homepage SUCKS! If I wanted an MSN clone I would get MSN. I just love all of the extra work you made for us to access what we like whereas on the old page it was right there. Bill Gates look out you now have competition!

Some Guy | March 5th, 2009 at 1:39 pm

What the f–k??!! Yahoo! has been harping this new friggin’ homepage for months, like since 2008!!! When the f–k do they plan on actually rolling this peice of crap out??!!

LinuxGuy2 | March 6th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

I too thought my home page was being hijacked! I realise by using Yahoo, Google etc.. you give up your rights to what your home page is BUT it’s very bad business to drop a bomb that reeks of HIJACKED on your users without notification.
I have used Yahoo from day one but this doesn’t work with me. Thanks for the ride & Bye.

The best lesson you can learn from this is to NOT treat your customers like they are mindless sheep!

A little respect please………..

Linux Guy | March 8th, 2009 at 4:48 pm

Just add http://m.yahoo.com in your restricted site list and you won’t see it again…….

Mahua | March 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am

If the usabilty tests have missed it :

the slide out ( with hide option ) part on the left IS WAY TOO LARGE AND OBLITERATES THE MAIN CONTENTS. This makes contents less visible –> in course of time will reduce visitors to this page.

Compare the number of clicks now you need to see your yahoo mail – compare it to the easy mouseover display of list in the usual homepage. USABILITY IS REDUCED AND HINDERED HERE.

Small talks such as this go unheeded, flamboyant user tests give no practical results, and a bloated tech/design team outputs such results which are necessary …. the google homepage has remained basically same over the years and yet continues to pull same or more crowd …. small talks like these go unheeded –> bring more downfall and subtly :(

laura | March 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am

HATED IT. I was one of the testers, and COULDN’T STAND IT. I gave it well over a week of daily use – and it drives me crazy. the search bar is a mess – you can never get it to respond with one click. The mail feature never worked, I was constantly signing back into my yahoo. What a disaster. Keep it clean, and stay w/ the old one.

Str8ShootR | March 11th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

First, my boss hasn’t exactly been impressed with the whole “random testing” business.

Second, it would be fantastic if Yahoo! would offer customizable news for its home page. I personally quit using Yahoo! in favor of plainjane Google simply because the featured headlines are so blatantly politically charged to the left that they’re an annoyance. I love the news feature and could even stomach a flat national feed from AP or Reuters, but Yahoo’s green/liberal selectivity is horrendously preachy.

streamsideminor | March 12th, 2009 at 9:55 am

I LOVE the new design…an now it’s GONE!

How do I get it back?!?!?

kotori_ayanami | March 13th, 2009 at 11:10 pm

So I’ve just been surfing for an answer to my question, I had to basically read the begining of 681 comments and I’m just having a hard time dealing with the illiteracy of it all. No, it’s not illegal because:
A.) It’s their website
B.) You use it for free
Websites change layouts all the god damn time, oh my god people. It’s not like they forced you into a van and told you if you didn’t test this they’d never let you go. Take a deep breath, it’s all ok. Sorry that you can’t sue them but you’ll be fine.

kotori_ayanami | March 13th, 2009 at 11:13 pm

That being said I completely forgot to ask my question. I realize it’s only availible to a bucket ‘o’ users but I was in the bucket and then terrible timing threw me out of the bucket.
I’ve had the new version since it came out, so about what…4 or 5 months now? Love it to peices. So when I was trying to click on another website from my address bar I managed to miss and by TERRIBLE luck landed on the “switch back to classic mode”.
A peice of me died, I really felt it. Can I get back in the bucket, oh please oh please? I’ll get used to classic again, I suppose. Not like I’m going to go pyschotic over a SEARCH PAGE and quit like you owe me something (for the love of god.)

Seriously though, I want my beta back. 5 months and I feel like we should be married.

chevy | March 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Without warning my good old yahoo page was redirected to this cra* ~ m.www.yahoo.com. All I can say is this really Bad. This was a Big waste of my time, having to find out how to get my old version back without having it redirect to this Cra*. This redirecting might push me go over to the dark side soon (Goggle). Stop this now!

Paul | March 17th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

the new yahoo homepage sucks….I want my old one back…at least make it an option before I switch providers!!!!!!

Max Power | March 19th, 2009 at 7:28 pm

I’m sure you mean well, but I’d like my old yahoo back please.

BugsB1976 | March 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

how do u get to test the new homepage?

DONALD GENE NOLAND | March 21st, 2009 at 10:15 am

please download new yahoo homepage.

beaumight_trav | March 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am

I hate this m.yahoo.com with a passion!!! It sucks!! Bad!! Please give me my http://www.yahoo.com back!!

Greg | March 24th, 2009 at 9:55 am

I have this new test version of yahoo, I did not ask for it and really I see no value in it. Basically the new homepage has accomplished three things:

1. Moving everything you normally use to the complete opposite side of the page than you would currently expect to find it.

2. Keeping web developers employed through an economic downturn.

3. Losing more customers to google.

Great job Yahoo!

Kat | March 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

I HATE THIS NEW YAHOO!!! It is much more difficult to get around, doesn’t give me the information I want, it slowed my pc waaayy down. Basically, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I am not averse to change as I used to work IT for many years, but this I don’t like. I also have a problem with being used as a guinea pig without being asked/notified first.

Next time you want to test something, ask for permission and then on the test site add a large area to be able to click on for feedback, with a header that states it is a beta test, and don’t lock users into it. That is frustrating for someone who doesn’t know how to get around it.

Bad Yahoo, great way to lose customers though.

Maria | March 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

omg the new yahoo page sucks. i was choosen to “test” it and i hate it please dont make it the new yahoo page i hate it and everyone i know hates it too! GO BACK TO THE OLD ONE!!!!!!!!!!

sann | April 4th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

i hate it. i hte it i hate it. i cant even see my mail, i dont even check it anymore. geeez i dont like it. anyone knows how to remove it.

Has A brain | April 4th, 2009 at 9:23 pm

If you want to change back to the old yahoo homepage clear your cookies,
just go to the options in internet explorer or go to clear private data (or something roughly simular)
and clear the cookies.
People expect that everything goes their way,
Its ultimately yahoo’s site, and yahoo retains the right to change it, much like any other site, including facebook, myspace, ect.

Dennis Hunter | April 15th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

I will not be controlled by some post-
teen love for color selection what you consider to be art. I have put up with the ugliest, skankiest models in all your advertising(none of whom were over twenty). I have put up with the stupid ‘hosts’ of the videos you feel need a post-teen announcer.

But I won’t let you decide what’s on my homepage any longer. Teens are the only damn computer users. Google gets it.

And now they get me. Screw you Yahoo! and the messed up management that you rode in on.

getta | April 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

New is not always better. Some things are best left alone.

natalie | April 26th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

THE NEW YAHOO SUCKS

lola | April 26th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

i dislike it and I can’t get rid of the webpage! it is so annoying!

li | April 26th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

i much prefer the old homepage please bring it back! i think it is way easier to navigate

pezkeeper | April 27th, 2009 at 6:48 am

I hate this new yahoo home page. Please, please, please give me the old one back. If this stays, then Google will be my homepage.

Grawrrrr | April 28th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

This new page is now up, and frankly i HATE it, sorry. It is soooo slow and it types crazy slow. I love that the e-mail stayed the same, but the new home page is a wreck. I want the old one back!! Can anyone tell me how?!?!?!? I cannot even find anything on the new one the old one is so much easier to use!!

cg | April 28th, 2009 at 9:28 pm

I am not happy about this new homepage m.yahoo.com. Everytime I try to click just past the .com and erase backward a bit to put in a new address (like to shop for books online), it will never go where I want because of the stupid “m” in there. I used to love the yahoo.com page, but now I don’t. I think this new version stinks. I cannot get to the Yahoo maps anymore either. Did they actualy think this was going to be an improvement?! You know the old saying, “don’t fix what’s not broken” — Please pay attention to that advice Yahoo.

me | April 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

I don’t understand why everyone dislikes it so much. Fro, what I saw so far it is much better. But my question is, how can I get the new version on my computer? I randomly got it on some other computer and did not have time to play with it. There must be some way to get the new version. When I try to go to m.www.yahoo.com it redirects to the old yahoo with ?nm=1 parameter after the URL. But I really like the new site.

W. Miller | April 29th, 2009 at 9:06 pm

This new site sucks, I want my old site back. I do not appreciate you using me for a test subject. Change me back or I will go to Fire Fox.

T bailey | May 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm

I hate the m.yahoo.com page. I have used the old page for maybe 10 years and love it for quickly checking news, stocks and whether I have mail.

I could care less what the top searches are. I could care less what’s featured. I already have my favorites categorized in Firefox. They’re called bookmarks.

Just give me back the old yahoo.com home page.

IggyR | May 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Why do you have to always “fix” something that isn’t broken?! You idiots think that this is easy to use?! We have to go through 20 different pages just to get to mail! Thats not “convienent” or “streamlined”, thats pointless!

Whoever thought of this new yahoo needs to crawl in a hole and die.

John Warwick | May 4th, 2009 at 3:11 am

I’ve been with Yahoo for many many years and it has always been my hompage.

Like so many others, I object to the new home page being inflicted on me. They could at least have an option that says ‘use classic’.

They should also warn that they are switching people, my wife had this a few weeks ago and thought her PC had been hijacked.

I don’t know if the feature is there somewhere but I really liked the middle window where you could have the latest headlines on news, sports, etc.

Other than opening up a new page I can’t see where to get that feature with the new page.

Come back Classic, I might then forgive Yahoo for arbitrarily hijacking my favourite version of my favourite Search Engine

J D V | May 8th, 2009 at 3:39 am

this stinking m.yahoo site really sucks the big one. Why some of of use were forced to use it i dont know, but yahoo is’nt my favorite site anymore because of this. You guys at yahoo really suck

leslie ch | May 8th, 2009 at 7:00 am

Its horrible. I can’t believe that you guys actually thing the new yahoo will be nice.
If this will become my new home page I will just cancel yahoo and go with someone else.

TJ | May 9th, 2009 at 7:31 am

I thought I was being phished.

I’m not going to knock it until I actually try it, but I’ve been trying to avoid using it because I thought it was some sort of phishing tactic.

Yahoo should have informed the people that have been selected for the beta on the site that m.www.yahoo.com is a beta site for a new version of yahoo.com

I think most of the complaints are due to a natural tendency of people not liking new things.

Eric | May 9th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

I really like the new look, but then again I like change.

However, Aol.com has been my homepage for a LONG time and I have no intention of changing that. If yahoo gets a module similar to the “AOL SCOOPS” that moves and has interesting news and things I would probably switch just because I use more yahoo services than Aol.

Joanna | May 10th, 2009 at 11:03 am

I hate the new “improved” yahoo. First, as others have written: I have not been asked to try out the new yahoo. I gave it a chance and I still do not like it.
Secondly, if i go to MyYahoo – the flag is German and the language is Danish. That is unacceptable.
Thirdly, I have removed http://www.yahoo.com from my homepage until it moves back to the old one. That’s my two cents!

Casey | May 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

I HATE the new layout. It’s stupid and really fugly looking.
You should really have the option of leaving it as is.

Matt | May 13th, 2009 at 7:08 pm

I hate the new m.www.yahoo.com. I hate the organization, it takes me a lot more clicks get to Sports news, and to check my email. I especially hate that it was forced on me without consent or a way to return to the regular version!!! I signed up for a gmail account today and will be switching my homepage away from yahoo.

HR | May 13th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

Cannot get the mwww site off my explorer, I HATE it … although have been able to get the old page on my firefox browser. Please, I just want the old Yahoo.com back. How do I switch it back??

Chris H | May 14th, 2009 at 5:39 am

I hate the fact that you changed my home page and I have to keep changing back. I like the classic view and it frustrates and angers me when I go online and I have to struggle to view the page I want. Maybe it’s time to switch to a home page that lets me be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

John | May 14th, 2009 at 3:42 pm

I won’t use the m.yahoo site. It’s terrible. I changed my home page and will change it back to Yahoo if/when they end this experiment.

catmagyck | May 15th, 2009 at 3:22 am

I think that what I dislike the absolute most about the changes that are randomly inflicted upon us is that developers like Yahoo are influenced primarily by those who live online. I do not. I have an OLDER computer which is horribly, horribly slowed down by all the apps and modules which I most certainly did NOT want, did NOT ask for, did NOT suggest, and most assuredly will NOT use. They are utterly useless to me and only serve the purpose of slowing down my system, setting modules that I cannot disable (like the chat one in my email; I don’t even CHAT, for gods sake, and do NOT WANT to be signed into ANY thing when I log in my freaking email!) and generally wasting my time by having to learn to navigate all this new s*** that is completely useless to me. I created a yahoo account for EMAIL, and NOTHING more. I want the classic back. That did not make my system lag. This does. Give the option to revert for those of us who have a life outside the net!

Rich O | May 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

I used Yahoo for my homepage until this happened.
It was easy to double click yahoo in the URL and type in “weather” to get to the weather channel website(for example).
Now I would have to replace the URL name AND delete the extra “m” everytime.

Too bad. I had to switch to another home page.

anne | May 17th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

i hate the new layout

jimbo | May 19th, 2009 at 10:18 am

looks like I will be setting Google as My web portal from now on… face it, Yahoo used to be the best thing going, free wheeling and very little crap…

Now they start messing with peoples computers and settings without informing them, and it does not stop at the homepage. eversince they nailed Me with the “M.” crap a get this pretty little green “loading bar” on every website I go to… which tells me that yahoo is not only messing with my homepage and yahoo settings but has placed intrusive malware to track every keystroke and site visit.

Lets see if we can track down this bit of code that is doing it, and if it conforms to the legal description of “Spyware/malware” as defined by the new legislation here in the states… then file a HUGE Class action Suit…
All We need to show is that they have caused “potential harm and security risk” as well as “unauthorised intrusive invasion of Privacy”.

I am sure the NYC lawyers here will be chomping at the bit to nail them to the wall.

jimbo | May 19th, 2009 at 10:29 am

As may be noted, I am more than displeased. after 9 years with Yahoo, they may be right, it IS time for a change. I am removing yahoo , it’s toolbars, flicker can be flicked.
As of today I am shifting to Google, I will set up a new mail account there and notify my contacts of the change.

Maybe a year or two from now yahoo can get a second glance from me again, but right now they are about a step above AOL… which aint saying much.

I would like to suggest you look back at the history of your company when you were cutting edge and refigure Why you appealed to the net savvy. Yes… thats it… we wanted non bloated, functional easy to use brwser and engines because of the sour taste we had received from using crap software like AOL.

CJ | May 19th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

I hate it! I’ve really liked Yahoo’s easy access and simplistic layout, but this time around, they’ve made it just plain bad. The layout is unpleasing to the eyes (the colors are more pleasing, but not the layout), plus I don’t need “Favorites”, that’s what I have “bookmarks” for. I don’t need all this junk on my homepage…if they keep it, it won’t be my homepage anymore.

screw this | May 21st, 2009 at 5:13 pm

This is the worst web page ever. I never signed up for this horror of an experiment. I’m going back to google mail and boycotting yahoo mail until this is fixed.

Lisa Greenberg | May 22nd, 2009 at 9:33 am

I HATE the new layout, give me my classic view back, PLEASE!!!! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I’ve grown accustomed to the classic view layout and I don’t want it changed unless I ask for it.

R | May 23rd, 2009 at 5:02 am

I would like to go back to the old version. I like the old version better. I would like to switch back.

Philip G | May 23rd, 2009 at 1:05 pm

The new m.yahoo sucks. Thanks God my Mozilla ad blocking add-on blocks the huge ad, so I am not even talking about that. The site is starting to look more and more like the MSN. I switched to the plain Google as a startup page when Yahoo added a bunch of ads and news to their front page long time ago, but I still liked reading the news in their format. Not, if that m.yahoo sh!t becomes permanent there will be no Yahoo for me. I might as well read the news at MSN or other junk news sources.

BTW, the way to remove m.yahoo.com from your computer is to go and delete the yahoo.com cookie from your browser. I did that and I am good for now. Whew.

katie | May 26th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

just make email easier to get to and more prominent.
and add an answers link to the homepage.

everything else seems fine.

Sr Rachel | May 27th, 2009 at 10:30 pm

Dear Sir, please send this to the right person as I need an answer!
I am an oldie, and your new homepage is just a nuisance to me. When I click on Yahoo Classic it goes there but the next time I open up it is back to the new. I regret that I ever tried it!
Thank you for your help. I don’t imagine you read these and I don’t imagine that you answer. But I am trying!!! alll the same. God bless and have a good day anyway.
Sr Rachel in Kenya.

Sharon | May 28th, 2009 at 5:45 am

I really, really want the old Yahoo homepage back, I can’t even follow this one, nothing makes sense and I can’t find anything. Does anyone know how or if you can change it back? I find it hard to believe anyone would approve this look, it’s awful. Shame on Yahoo!!! Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!!!

Curtis Bailey | May 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

I really think that yahoo is being very invasive for not asking before putting me in their homepage test. I am a creature of habit and do not like change if it is not condusive to improvement. I dont see what the new layout has over the old one. I don’t like it at all. I especially don’t like being forced to participate in this test.

llm | May 28th, 2009 at 8:03 pm

don’t like it

Ryan | May 31st, 2009 at 11:50 am

I hate this new layout, I’m about to dump yahoo and Google more.

Ryan Miller | May 31st, 2009 at 1:33 pm

THIS HOMEPAGE SUCKS!!!!!!
I want the good yahoo back because this one is retarded and I have to click 4 times while with the old one i could just move my mouse over and see how many mails i had before i did anything so i didn’t have to waste my time.
Also it looks STUPID,UNORGANIZED, AND RETARDED!!!!!!
Please just give me the old yahoo back!

Lissyjohn | June 3rd, 2009 at 1:06 am

I’m all for experimenting to find a more pleasing layout, but not at the expense of the user. I find it most annoying to sign in, create my sign in seal and then find the homepage has changed!
Without reading any other comments, my own personal view is, yes make it a bit more ‘upbeat’ but my advice is to leave access to mail/messenger etc on the right. Most homepages you’ll find have it on the right. It causes confusion if it’s changed too much, especially for newish users or ’silver surfers’. Less is more, your new layout is confusing.
I really don’t appreciate having just logged in, to have to clear my cache/cookies etc just to get my old layout back. For anyone who doesn’t know what is happening, they make think that their account has somehow been hacked or attacked by a virus, and I must admit that I thought the same the first time the ‘new layout’ suddenly appeared without warning.

David Whittingham | June 3rd, 2009 at 3:36 am

I want the old version back, and for furture reference, don’t ever make changes at radom on my machine ever again. This crap sucks.

Erica | June 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 am

I was apparently one of the people chosen at random to test the new homepage and I absolutely HATE it. I can’t find anything and it’s a pain to get to my e-mail. Is there any way I can get back to the old homepage?

Karen | June 5th, 2009 at 10:37 am

I’ve been using Yahoo forever and liked it just fine. I spent several hours trying to figure out what happened to my homepage – hijacked, etc. It would have been nice to have been informed of the change beforehand.
I do not like the new page and will no longer be using Yahoo!

Tyler Whidden | June 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

The M yahoo is not good in any way. I’d like the old one back please. AND PUT FANTASY SPORTS AS AN OPTION ON THE FRONT PAGE, for the love of god.

Zillion | June 6th, 2009 at 11:45 am

New page is NOT useful at all. I am an old user and the old page is just fine for me. I don’t need anything but access to email and I don’t need or WANT to have to make more the a few button clicks to get to my inbox and messages. STOP changing things just to change them. It is not justified.

Leaving Yahoo | June 6th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

I have two computers at home. One is still on my old Yahoo homepage, (Thank God) the other was changed without my permission to this highjacked looking page. It’s just like when they tried to switch to “new Coke”. Eventually you will figure out some things shouldnt be fiddled with. I switched to Google on highjacked computer. and won’t come back until they return my old homepage. Shame on Yahoo for switching me without notice or permission. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it. The A-hole who took it upon himself to use me as a test subject gets my opinion. YOU SUCK!!!!

Darth.Roach | June 7th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

please for the love of god if you are going to screw with the website have a button that says “classic yahoo” so i dont have to spend 15 minutes guessing where you hid the tab for maps when i need a directions to a place ASAP.
if your going to screw with the website with out warning an make it hard/impossible to get back to the old one, I’m going to find a different website that is a lot more reliable, and “gasp” user friendly.

MrBlonde | June 8th, 2009 at 6:13 pm

I had it up for a few days when I finally figured Id wipe cookies ,etc and it went back to the old page…then after two days, guess what, it went back to m.www.yahoo.com.

I have to agree with alot of peoples comments. i dont like it! I want my old yahoo back as well……permanently! You guys really need to make a link to take us back to the old page. I have used yahoo so long, when I signed up my original password for my account was red..lol. a three letter word. Thats how long I have loved and used yahoo and your services. As many others I think im gonna find a new home page and just check my mail with yahoo messenger so I dont go to that awful front page.

Used Audi | June 9th, 2009 at 3:57 am

I am unable to see this new design of Yahoo.com

Please let me know how can get access to http://www.m.yahoo.com

atomic1fire | June 9th, 2009 at 3:26 pm

personally I find the new site cool, but as I am a google user,
not something I would use in the long run,
that, and the cool yodel button is gone. (hide a new one or something)
make a javascript button to turn it off or on, and I think more people would be happy.
I deleted my cookies but would gladly reinstate the test cookie or whatever to do more playing with the design.
add more notice to yahoo’s intentions, and include an opt out.
When it’s time to release the new design, take in other considerations, such as speed or monitor size, before expecting everyone to go along with the design,
and highlight good things about the features,
overall I think that would make it much more sellable (in terms of speaking) to users

becca | June 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

i HATE the test page with a passion, i can’t get onto the yahoo website and check my mail or anything..i want the old yahoo page back asap!!!

ike | June 10th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

this new format is terrible. get rid of it

Kevin | June 11th, 2009 at 8:33 am

Actually, I prefer the “classic” version. It had what I needed, and I didn’t have to make multiple mouse clicks to see what I wanted to see. And that also goes for the recent changes made to the “classic” MyYahoo page. I really hate having to click the screen two separate times in order to “refresh” a particular area such as financial information or email. The new format doesn’t save any browser real estate, so there’s no “user value” to the change. But it has increased my irritation level.

The combination of *forcing* me to test the new Yahoo format without my consent and the useless change to MyYahoo has me looking at moving to a different site as my home base.

Good luck, Yahoo, with your plans… and your survival.

habib | June 11th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

the new yahoo stinks. stop fixing whats not broken!

Brian | June 13th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

The new site is great… but wow, what a bunch of whiners on here complaining!

The new site has far less clutter and is easier to get to previews and mail.

Unfortunately, I cleared by cookies and history and now cannot get the new Yahoo page anymore but I want it back!

Anyone have any ideas how to get it back?

MsKittten | June 15th, 2009 at 2:00 am

I’m not a fan of this new Yahoo page can you please take me out of this Beta and give me back my Old Yahoo page I hate to even just check the weather on this new version. Thanks

Gumby | June 15th, 2009 at 8:28 am

I do not like the m.yahoo page please return my old Yahoo homepage. I also do not want to be included in any future testing withiout be asked first.

Tyler Stein | June 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

please leave yahoo alone, I do not like this new version.

Bryan | June 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm

HATE IT!!!! I have been a long time user but I will switch do to this garbage

slawek | June 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

m.yahoo? get me out of here!
‘new’ does not mean better.
I think it sux and as soon as I figure out how, I am going back to yahoo.com. (kill cookies they say).
Remember ‘new coke’? Keep ‘classic yahoo’.
S.

Gabe S. | June 16th, 2009 at 1:11 am

I don’t know what people are whining about. People always feel the need to whine when any website changes their layout. Change happens, get over it.

The new layout is very refreshing, and I think it’s very simple to use. It certainly has more visual appeal than the “classic” layout. I just wish I could find a way to use it on all my computers. Would it be possible to dig up the cookie file and save it on another computer?

Stefania | June 16th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

Please change it back!
I did not want to be part of the test. I don’t like the new page and was very happy with the old one. Why only some have changed? How can I change it back? I just dont Like the way it looks and how it is set up.

Jesse | June 17th, 2009 at 8:59 am

I like the design of m.www.yahoo.com but the one thing that irritates me to no end is when the focus is placed in the search bar. Many times I launch my browser, go to my homepage but then click on the URL bar to type in another website and next thing i know, part of the URL is written in the search bar. Very annoying. Let the user choose the focus.

Wayne Lites | June 17th, 2009 at 9:01 am

I don’t know how this got on my computer, but I want it off. I have tried getting rid of the cookies and that does not work. What I hate about this site is it won’t allow you to edit the apps without signing in. Which is stupid. Also when ever My mouse accidentally cross it it will open up which is very annoying. How do I get back to my classic and get rid of this?

Hate M.Yahoo | June 18th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

PLEASE tell me how to get rid of this awful test yahoo. I want my old one back!!!!!!!!!! Hate it!!!

monad | June 19th, 2009 at 11:20 am

i hate it.
i have been using yahoo since 90s. (email+search engine)
i want my old yahoo back.
i started a g-mail account because of that, and i am actually enjoying it a lot. if i don’t get back my old yahoo in a couple of days, i’m dumping my yahoo account!
(email+homepage)

Frances | June 19th, 2009 at 7:45 pm

I am switching to GOOGLE. DO not hijack my home page. Google has it together. The old page was good, better than Google. This makes it harder to navigate. This Purplely page is for aesthetic illiterates! Try harder, please.

Marco | June 21st, 2009 at 1:41 pm

Dont’t fix it if it isn’t broken.

LaRisa Morace | June 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm

GIVE ME BACK MY OLD HOMEPAGE!!!!YOU HAVE ROYALLY HACKED ME OFF!!!! THIS IS THE SECOND STINKING TIME I’VE BEEN DONE LIKE THIS, AND I AM SICK SICK OF IT!!!!OLD YAHOO HOMEPAGE!!!NOW!!!RIGHT NOW!!!!ASAP NOW!!!!!!!!!

Rob | June 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 am

Okay, so I missed the warning’s about this m.yahoo thingy. I have always preferred Yahoo and I am fairly easy going, aside from cheating employers and people who try to keep you down, but popping up a new web page without asking, making me wonder if it was fraudulent, is annoying. I’m all for improvement’s, but I hope you’re not going to go all AOL on me next. That would really suck.

Robin | June 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am

Yahoo has been testing this website on me and I’m sick of it. I’m not one to complain, but I’m tired of seeing the old site one minute, and then the new one the next. This new website is horrible. Instead of just one click to get to mail, I now have to do several. It’s just irritating. And the design is awful. It doesn’t look appealing. And the one that is being tested on me is not the one in the screenshot. I want the old yahoo page, or a better new one. I would like to know if and when this webpage will be officially up, therefore I can switch to another site for my info and mail.

Robin | June 23rd, 2009 at 11:50 am

Yep, GOOGLE from now on!

Chris | June 23rd, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Looks good, and change is good, but i really dont like the purple, i think you should have made the YAHOO! black in color, and the words and background red and white, this should be pleasing to all ages, while maintain the hip look to reel in and keep the younger viewers/users. To be totally honest, i almost changed google to my homepage JUST because of the colors. You only have seconds to intrest people now a days and keep them like , oooh, whats that say, or wow, that font looks nice. We are in bad times and i think small things like color, can make someones day!

Jim | June 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Again? You guys did it again? I’m with the other posters, this sucks. You have to stop this crap. You just can’t switch someones homepage. I understand you need to check out new layouts but you guys are getting to be a bit “New Coke” on me. Are we going to have Yahoo and Yahoo Classic?

Diana | June 24th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

This new homepage is difficult and time consuming to navigate. I have already switched and will not go back to Yahoo unless it changes back!

Kimberly | June 25th, 2009 at 2:06 am

Hello:

I dislike the new m.www.yahoo.com as well. I am tired of these “improvements” that companies force upon us, and try to convince us that the changes are beneficial to us somehow.

The feature should be optional; Users who want it could have it, just as they can customize their home pages, but the rest of us could stay with the original version if we so choose. It really isn’t fair to people to be forced to participate in the trial, to see how they’ll adjust when they become “used to the changes.” Some of us use our Yahoo accts for business email, and switching servers would cause a lot of extra and unnecessary work for us.

If they want to improve something, they should focus on the notorious Ymail login problems instead! It can take me five-six attempts sometimes to access my email, and tech support has been of no help. I’ve heard from others that this is a common problem.

As others have pointed out, there is a way to get rid of the new version of the Yahoo main page – delete your history, cookies, etc. I am on Windows Vista, and it didn’t work when I deleted just the cookies – You need to delete the browsing history and add-ons as well.

Kimberly Savino

Pete Weisell | June 25th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

I do not like the new look. I am tired of my home page being changed with no notice. I am also tired of having to spend the time searching to find how to change it back. Stop doing this. We should be able to decide on our own if we want it changed. If we decide that is what we want then it is up to each one of us to make that happen.

I want to have the information as to how to change back to Yahoo Classic sent to me.

Regards,

Pete Weisell

Randy Brockman | June 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Tell me how to get to http://www.yahoo.com, or tell me good-bye.
I DO NOT WISH TO BE HIJACKED TO http://www.m.yahoo.com, period.

It’s my way – or the hiway for yahoo!

Ashley Hopkins | June 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

Hello,
I hate this new home page!
1) I can’t find my mail.
2) I can’t hover over my horoscope to read it!
3) It is confusing me, and I don’t have patients like that!
4) Everything takes longer!
5) I like it better with my whether, horoscope, and mail…ect. In one place where I really don’t have to click on any of it.
I am tired of you guys changing my home page when it is easy and I can actualy get to my mail. It should be up to me if I want to change it. I don’t like having to go through a huge process, JUST to get my old Yahoo! back, when I Loved the old set-up.
Quit changing my Yahoo!
~Ashley Hopkins

Raul R. | June 25th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

The new main page is a piece of junk. Horrible, terrible.

Why I was put in the list of testers?
I don’t want to test it and I didn’t ask to be a tester.

I want the old yahoo main page!

THEO | June 26th, 2009 at 1:07 am

Boooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want my old one back

If i wanted something new, I would have switched to google

greg | June 26th, 2009 at 6:38 am

It stinks, and I cant go back to the old yahoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do I go back to classic?????????
I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss Deviance | June 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am

Fortunately, I haven’t gotten forced into the test group (yet), but I have several friends who have and they were furious.

I can assure you, Yahoo is going to go bankrupt if they continue these kinds of practices!

My friends have already switched their home pages to other providers. They are LIVID.

Especially in today’s environment of forced government takeovers and mind control, people are getting extremely resistant to any kind of big brother manipulation.

What’s next? A Yahoo home page with a watermark of Obama’s face and a raised extended hand?

Bad move.

jim | June 26th, 2009 at 10:01 am

I want my old yahoo page back!

Terrible | June 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Absolutely terrible!

There should be a ’switch to classic’ button for the home page similar to as they did for yahoo mail.

I’ve switched my homepage outside of yahoo, too. If the new yahoo homepage is here to stay with no option to switch to classic, I won’t return, and I’ll cancel my email accounts, too.

Why do people think ‘new’ is better? WRONG!

Jeaf | June 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

WTF i want my old yahoo back!! I’m glad I found this page and everyone seems to agree this new site is absolutely horrible. For a moment there i thought my browser had been hi-jacked. Up yours Yahoo, give me my page back.

David A | June 27th, 2009 at 2:54 am

this is the worst web design i have ever seen GIVE US OUR DAMN WEBSITE BACk….years of yahoo loyalty for this CRAP

StevenProops | June 27th, 2009 at 4:54 am

In mozzila firefox – if you clear out your cache and cookies (press ctrl, shift + del to bring up the clear private data box) and then type in uk.yahoo.co.uk you can get the old style back. I was so annoyed by the change that i switched to another homepage for the last few weeks before stumbling on this fix – now its back to the comfortable norm – YAY.

Tammy | June 27th, 2009 at 7:51 am

i absolutely HATE the new yahoo site…. I want the yahoo classic page back :(

Jake | June 27th, 2009 at 6:46 pm

I hate the the new site. If I do not get switched back i won’t use Yahoo any more.

Riverina | June 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

Hi,

I don’t like it because you did the changes without first asking me. I have cleared my cookies and history files and I still can’t get to the old http://www.yahoo.com page.

Can you please tell me how to get back to the original screen, as nothing I seem to do gets me back there.

riverina

WTFthanksyahoo | June 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

What a crappy thing to do. My choices are delete my cookies or live with this new page, which is definitely NOT an improvement. Doesn’t even have a GROUPS button on the side. As in YAHOO groups. Hate you pulling this. I foresee a new homepage, one that doesn’t have *.yahoo anywhere in the URL…

Shawn | June 29th, 2009 at 6:50 am

I DO NOT LIKE THIS NEW YAHOO! I WANT THE ORIGINAL BACK, IF NOT I AM SWITCHING MY HOME PAGE TO SOMETHING ELSE AND I WILL SWITCH MY EMAIL TOO! TELL ME HOW TO SWITCH BACK!

Daisy | June 29th, 2009 at 3:13 pm

I don’t like it, adn I especially don’t like having it tested on me with no easay option to revert to the original which I prefer. When it’s official, I suppose I’ll get used to it: in the meantime, how do I stop it hijacking my preferered front page??

NOYB | June 29th, 2009 at 6:17 pm

I loathe m.yahoo.com. It’s horrible. I miss the old Yahoo & I’m upset that I’m not given a choice. I don’t want to be a tester. It sort of makes me not want to use Yahoo anymore, especially since the new features don’t even load right.

Nancy | June 30th, 2009 at 7:02 am

I do not like the new yahoo. I can’t get to any of the places I “go” without opening a new tab or a number of extra clicks. Frankly, I don’t have time to “explore” new options. I also do NOT appreciate being a Guinea Pig for your trials without my permission. Please find a way to try new formats while allowing your users to revert to the old if they desire. I’m disgusted and extremely frustrated!

Patti | June 30th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

I hate it. I can’t get anywhere with the pop up windows as you mouse over the news. Takes way too long to close the news windows out, and if I didn’t close them, I would not be able to see anything else on the page. Maybe I should change my home page? I think I might have to do just that. I would personally like to go back to the old. Quit trying to fool everyone. This is BAAAAAAAAAD.

Anasis | June 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

At this point, based on all the negative response here, the Yahoo design team needs to just stop. stop. You’ve already done too much damage.

The designers of the old version of the Yahoo web page must be fuming! This is what you’ve come up with? This? The new web page is so rediculously bad that I can’t begin to enumerate the problems. You won’t be able to correct a thing here or a thing there, or even start from scratch with a new design at this point. I’m afraid you’ll need to fire everybody involved with this atrocity (including their managers, perhaps particularly so) and maybe start a new company. Short of that, perhaps you can re-hire your previous designers and managers, assuming they’re still willing to talk to you.

krazy | July 1st, 2009 at 11:46 am

of all the comments i have read there hasnt been a positive one yet :-s

i personally like the new page

all though would have liked to been asked to try it first lol as like many others i thought my page was hijacked lol

i love the new page to me its alot more simple an easy to navigate an the hover over links on left makes it all so much better

an best u can add or remove wht u want to see not whats already there

for me it suits my need better tan the old yahoo page

Melissa | July 1st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Let me put it simply:

This new design SUCKS

I HATE IT..DESPISE IT…LOATHE IT

I am switching to a new homepage, because I can’t seem to permanently switch back to yahoo classic.

So, this is what I get for using your homepage for YEARS?

GOOD…BYE.

Jason McDermott | July 2nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm

PLEASE put it back to the old version….this absolutely sucks….i will have to open a gmail account and use google or another homepage…i have had yahoo homepage since 1994…

but i cannot stand this new layout…it is awful….and please tell your loyal customers that some will be beta testing a very ugly and awfully thought out homepage…i recommend hiring new creative talent…like the ones that change up the yahoo logo for different days or events. I can only assume with the piss poor layout that you must be outsourcing to India.

Richard Curtis | July 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm

I HATE THE “MY YAHOO” CRAP!!!!! I have been a yahoo user for several years and everyone in my family has yahoo.com as their home page. Now I can’t mine back to the “CLASSIC” look. GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! This new site SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!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