Yahoo homepage

[KYSportsWriter]

Anyone noticed the changes Yahoo! made to its homepage recently?

I hate it, and wish there was a way to get the old homepage back. Anyone know of a way to do that?

 

[dooley_womack1]

It's variable; sometimes you get the old one, sometimes you get the new one. Sometimes the new one gives you an option to go to the old one, sometimes it doesn't. But I hate the new one, too. I actually prefer the one they had 10 years ago; didn't have to worry about some MMA or Speidi crap jumping out at you.

 

[jimnorden]

in two weeks everyone will forget what the old one looked like and why the liked it. always happens when a site changes its look.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Um, just like I forgot all about Yahoo's look from 10 years ago? And the clean look ESPN used to have?

 

[jimnorden]

yes. yahoo is better than it was 10 years ago and espn is the cleanest its ever been.

 

[dooley_womack1]

ESPN is an unholy mess, and it's harder to find mail and messenger on yahoo. The point is, I doubt your initial premise is even close to universal. There are tons of people in St. Louis who are still pissed at the Post-Dispatch for its design change. Changing design is not just jigsaw puzzle masturbation that automatically will be adjusted to and eventually loved.

 

[jimnorden]

people get pissed for a few weeks then learn to love the new version. lots of people are afraid of change ... then forget all about it.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Not true at all. You've been talking to at least one exception, for god sake's, and I assure you I'm not sui generis. Ask the geniuses behind New Coke about just being able to throw anything out there and have it accepted.

 

[jimnorden]

i'm sure a small percentage never get over change, for one reason or the other, but for the most part people raise a stink, then forget what they were raising a stink over.

I think espn.com has never looked better. they actually made their homepage easier to navigate. it's much cleaner than it ever has been and is a lot easier on the eyes.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Like with New Coke, right?

 

[fishwrapper]

What about the hit Coke Zero?
Meaning, you're not going to know unless you try.

 

[dooley_womack1]

True nuff. But diet cola is a much more ripe area for monkeying around than the flagship brand. The point is, jimnorden insists that any old change is fine, people will just accept it. And I don't necessarily buy that. Change shouldn't be made for change sake.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

people get pissed for a few weeks then learn to love the new version. lots of people are afraid of change ... then forget all about it.

Couldn't disagree more. ESPN.com used to be much cleaner and easier to navigate years ago. But some design firms must feel like they have to justify their existence.

Fine to occasionally fix something that isn't broken. But don't put more breakable parts and more difficult components in something that was acceptable in the first place.

 

[sostartled]

Very bottom, right hand side. Option to change back to classic view. Problem solved!

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

It's never automatically switched me to the new version either.


I had to click on the option to see the new Yahoo. I did that once, then quickly found the link for classic yahoo and it's stayed on classic since.