Comments on: Welcome home to the new Yahoo.com

By: matt

matt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:07:30 +0000

wow, i just set my home page to igoogle, what a relief. i didn’t realize how much stress those mouse overs were giving me, i’ve been avoiding reading the news and sports scores, email, etc. just because of that simple thing that could have been fixed,

sorry yahoo, google mail is next

By: matt

matt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:04:09 +0000

others agree about the pop ups i can’t look at the page, i will try google too

i get so angry

By: matt

matt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:00:38 +0000

i can’t stand all the mouseover popups for the menu items, i tend to roam with the mouse and these popups keep getting in my way, and i have to close them everytime.

ugh

By: awa

awa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:58:03 +0000

i wish to go back to the new version of yahoo

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:36:14 +0000

The new yahoo home page was fun for a day or two. I agree with all of the sentiments that if you can’t choose, or at least, turn off the annoying advertisement to try the new home page, it’s goodbye for me and many others. With all of the apps now to check yahoo mail remotely, why would I use this home page just to get badgered and annoyed? Better still, perhaps I should just drop yahoo mail as well, because their perennial project of a “new improved email” is still….a project. I am embarrassed for them. Move forward or move aside, Yahoo.

By: Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:41:51 +0000

I don’t like the new yahoo because:

I have to be careful where I hover or leave my mouse otherwise a page pops up and blocks out everything (extremely annoying).

Yahoo seems like they’re trying to get me to sign-in rather than surf ‘anonymously’ (they won’t allow customization for logical links on the page unless you’re signed in).

By: sylvia

sylvia — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:27:59 +0000

Get rid of the pop ups, soo annoying! If I want to sign up for something, I’ll go there, but don’t put it on my face every time I move my mouse!!! Lose them.

By: watermelon

watermelon — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:51:52 +0000

yahoo, why did you take away the old page?im glad your proud of your new page,but it wouldnt have hurt to keep the old page.i guess its gone forever now…but next time you make a new homepage just keep the old one,it will give better feedback.so please yahoo…please

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:07:26 +0000

I have tried over and over again to stop the blue popup bar from coming up. I don’t want to sign in and customize my home page. you guys are so fixed on getting peoples information and what they are looking at and trying to direct them to your adds and it’s only turning them away. does anyone read this page ? I think not.

Here is a comment I would agree with
When you want to set the new Yahoo! as home for Firefox;
it gives you the drop down icon to drag onto home icon..the URL points to http://www.yahoo.com.

Now if you’ve chosen the new page version, the cookie should redirect to the new Metro version.

But; even tho you set it as home, it still shows ‘Make Y! your homepage’. I’m done trying fix this. maybe yahoo can sell a pop up blocker to make money

By: Chy

Chy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:10:06 +0000

mouse over pop ups have got to go. I am so annoyed with it I have changed my homepage to msn which is not exactly my cup of tea but it’s better then having all these pop ups flying all over the place if your mouse is at the wrong point of the page. Terrible new page. Really miss the old home page.

By: nancy

nancy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:22:57 +0000

What a worthless rewrite… I no longer can see weather, email and news at a glance. Everything requires manipulation. So, why bother.

By: Tony in KY

Tony in KY — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:27:28 +0000

The popups on the new site are some of the most annoying features I have ever encountered. I like the new look but the other crap that came with it needs to go because the seemingly random events are too frustrating.

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:55:40 +0000

I do not like the new home page. It is difficult to find things that were so easy to find before. I had a hard time finding compose and then when I did, I could not and still cannot find my address book. What a mess. Please return the old page to me.
Thank you

By: andy

andy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:56:26 +0000

Carol has completely turned me off of yahoo forever. Im forced to use their email address until i find out what I have under the @yahoo.com email,then its permanently google from now on.
She seems to think changing things will bring in new users.. and its painfully obvious that you cant bring in new users, if old users are unhappy.
It all started with yahoo mail. They changed mail, but left us the option to use ‘classic’. However, they changed ‘classic’! You cannot change something and call it ‘classic’, its a basic rule.
Then we changed Yahoo News. Instead of giving the people that actually used this service, stories, they thought they would bring in teenagers by making it look like a myspace page.. Ridiculous graphics, oversized font, and a mixture of 9 different font sizes.
The dreadful yahoo homepage redesign is the final nail in the coffin. Who on earth, thought that a mouseover on every link on the left column of the page was a good idea?
Ive had yahoo set as my homepage for over 10 years, and last month, I finally went too my google.
Yahoo, you are killing yourself with the redesigns. If you cant keep people happy, good luck with the sponsors.

By: George Clark

George Clark — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:47:37 +0000

New Yahoo Home page is bad. Mouse over “flare ups” drive me crazy. I’ve used Yahoo for many years and this is really annoying.
Give us the option of the classic page, PLEASE.

George

By: J. Hughes

J. Hughes — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:46:45 +0000

The New Yahoo! Home Page Is Annoying

I have been using Yahoo since Yahoo began, and I have to say that I really, really don’t like the new front page. The part that annoys me the most is the left-hand selections that suddenly explode into huge pop-up panes that almost cover the rest of the screen (did you all happen to try it out on 1024 x 768 notebook sized screens?). I’ve been dealing with it now for a while, and each time it happens it just chafes me to no end. I don’t want a web page jumping up in my face, I just want it to respond when I click on things.

I use Yahoo a lot, particularly for email (for which I’m grateful, thank you) and I can overlook the cutsie cartons and cheesy photos on the mail page. But I also rely on Yahoo! for a lot of my online news. Lately, however, I’ve been looking for alternatives. I am seriously considered dropping Yahoo!, after all these years, at least until someone can figure out how to make the home page less obnoxious.

Please get rid of the stupid pop-up panes. It looks amateurish, it does nothing to help the Yahoo! experience, and they are annoying.

By: yann

yann — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:46:42 +0000

I hate the pop-ups when you scroll over or even close to left side bar..going back to old yahoo homepage or maybe another site.
Yahoo people: haven’t you already gotten enough complaints about this?…come on, get with it!!!!

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Just to add my two cents – this new page is terrible. I have been a loyal Yahoo user for years but this page is a mess. Does anyone really want all these annoying rollovers?

It is sad. On my way to Google.

Charles

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:11:29 +0000

Stinks in every possible way. I like news, not ads. I hate the format, which seems to all users are alike. I liked being able to set my defaults once, not every time I visit the page. I liked not having to read a “Problem loading” message every time I retrieve my mail. Now it’s just a pain in the neck. It’s like a bad beta-dream!

By: Adios Yahoo!

Adios Yahoo! — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:09:28 +0000

Proof yet again that “new” doesn’t always equate to better. I don’t need the aggravation of dealing w/ mouse over pop-ups and navigating away from the homepage is now much, much slower as is navigating between websites. I don’t know anything about the technology but I am certain this issue started at the same time I was no longer given the option of returning to “classic Yahoo!”. I naively communicated w/ the Yahoo! team to express my concern. Polite response however the bottom line is ‘it’s a done deal’. I will also be moving to a different homepage if for no other reason than for the principle of being forced into what I view as borderline malicious software built into the new Yahoo homepage.

By: S

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:11:12 +0000

Those rollover features are terrible. I’ve had Yahoo as my homepage for many years now but I’m switching my homepage.

By: db

db — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:28:22 +0000

I HATE the new YAHOO homepage!!! WHY OH WHY cant we keep the classic if that is what WE want??? WHY shove the new one down our throats??WHY not let us choose??? why run a dictatorship like this? I hate manuevering and navigating this stupid new homepage BRING BACK THE CLASSIC!!!

By: JC

JC — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:47:21 +0000

Seriously we want Classic back. Many of us hate the pop ups when you roll over Sports etc. You click on sports, the pop up causes the pointer to move up to movies or messenger and you end up clicking into those links. Also, I hate having to move my pointer far left or right when I’m trying to read, the pop ups just get in the way of the headlines.

Please provide us with classic. I’m been with Yahoo from the beginning and now looking to go to GOOGLE full time. I don’t want to but this new page is too frustrating.

By: Choices

Choices — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:11:04 +0000

Why force a change? Give me the option to choose — new page is NO good for me. Mouseover pop-ups are horrendous.

Some people really like the page — some people really DON’T like the page.

Format choice would be great.

Any instructions available for Firefox to show the old page would be greatly appreciated.

By: DJ

DJ — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:58:35 +0000

Looks like I am not the only one who hates the new Yahoo home page. With no options to return to Classic Yahoo my home page will be changed. Too bad Yahoo doesn’t listen to their customers. Your page designers got an idea stuck in their heads and won’t let it go. You lose Yahoo

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:58:25 +0000

I, too, hate the new page and especially the annoying rollovers and popups. A new page should be customizable to make it work more efficiently, not more frustratingly! Time to look elsewhere.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:50:10 +0000

New page design stinks, reminds me of something Microsoft would do. keep classic view.

By: sybil

sybil — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:47:57 +0000

I do not like the new homepage. It’s very annoying. My major complaint, there’s too much interference when the arrow/cursor moves over several key subjects written on the left hand side of the yahoo page, visuals keep popping up. I don’t think that was well thought out. Many times you are not conscience about your cursor navigating over several words. You just move it all over to get where you want to go and the pop ups slows the navigation down. Maybe you need to size down the visual box. Also, the list on the right side of the page is too long. Too many options/choices. It should be more tailored or key subjects should be separated i.e. yahoo messenger, weather, horoscope, etc. and put into a graphically done category of their own, similar to yahoo classic. Important and regular used subjects should not be clumped in subjects i.e. hot jobs, etc. And don’t force people to keep something when they already had a good thing going with yahoo classic.

By: R. MacDonald

R. MacDonald — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:02:58 +0000

Dear Yahoo. Please do what Coke did in the 80’s when they switched to New Coke and realized what an idiotic decision that was. Although it took longer then it should have they then realized their mistake and brought back Coke Classic. Why mess with a winning formula unless you want to decrease market share, reduce revenue, and alienate customers?

By: Bri2459

Bri2459 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:57:59 +0000

Cant stand the new page been using yahoo for over ten years ill be on msn in a month if this garbage layout stays.