Not MyYahoo
I have been a satisfied user of MyYahoo since as long as I can remember. I never thought once about switching or making anything else my home page. That has all changed in the last 72 hours. I am now thinking of checking out Netvibes or Pageflakes (Benchmark Company) for my home page. (See this Mashable post)
I clicked on a link to check out the "new" myyahoo. Now I can't seem to get rid of it and get my old MyYahoo back. This one has brought all sorts of problems:
1. To stock market pane has expanded to company names and takes more screen real estate but cuts off some key info like % change. On one of my portfolios I can't even see how much the stock went up that day when I load the screen. It is still missing key content like snow reports which keeps a smile on my face when I engage in wishful thinking about getting back on the slopes again this season.
My scoreboard has been expanded with big team logos but that has come at the expense of my RSS feed headlines which now pushes more of my RSS modules down the page. As many have pointed out, it now has this annoying ad in the upper right corner. While everyone has the right to make money (especially Yahoo since I own the stock), this is a downgrade of the user experience that we have all become used to.
I could go on and moan about the missing features and the annoyances of the change but I will leave you on these two notes:
1. I hope someone can send me a cookie cleaner or utility that can restore my old MyYahoo.
2. I hope that this is New Coke deja vu and that Yahoo will bring back Yahoo classic.
I clicked on a link to check out the "new" myyahoo. Now I can't seem to get rid of it and get my old MyYahoo back. This one has brought all sorts of problems:
1. To stock market pane has expanded to company names and takes more screen real estate but cuts off some key info like % change. On one of my portfolios I can't even see how much the stock went up that day when I load the screen. It is still missing key content like snow reports which keeps a smile on my face when I engage in wishful thinking about getting back on the slopes again this season.
My scoreboard has been expanded with big team logos but that has come at the expense of my RSS feed headlines which now pushes more of my RSS modules down the page. As many have pointed out, it now has this annoying ad in the upper right corner. While everyone has the right to make money (especially Yahoo since I own the stock), this is a downgrade of the user experience that we have all become used to.
I could go on and moan about the missing features and the annoyances of the change but I will leave you on these two notes:
1. I hope someone can send me a cookie cleaner or utility that can restore my old MyYahoo.
2. I hope that this is New Coke deja vu and that Yahoo will bring back Yahoo classic.



1 Comments:
I just had the same thing happen as well and like you, not totally thrilled with the newest incarnation of MyYahoo.
To go back to the "old" MyYahoo", scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and you will see "Switch to original My Yahoo!"
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