and sports. top center for each team page used to be the most current game with direct links to box-score and recap/preview. below that was news with stats and division standings in a sidebar. everything I wanted on one page. Now it's split into multiple pages that aren't well interlinked.
only thing I can think of is they get more money with more pageviews
Sounds plausible. By far the plurality of complaints on that page have to do with the loss of customizability. It's as if Yahoo desperately wants people to flip through several pages of unrequested information from sports scores to stock quotes, where one custom page would have sufficed before.
This also ties in with the overall industry trend of using more pixels -- in the form of unnecessary whitespace and large fonts that, again, can't be customized by the user -- to display less information. Once again, the company gets more ad revenue as users struggle to access content that was previously displayed in a more compact format.
These days, beleaguered behemoths like Yahoo and Microsoft focus their business strategies on their wants and needs rather than those of their users. Obviously, this kind of abuse will only work until they're replaced by more customer-centric organizations.
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Except they 'fixed' stuff that wasn't broken, like Groups.
and sports. top center for each team page used to be the most current game with direct links to box-score and recap/preview. below that was news with stats and division standings in a sidebar. everything I wanted on one page. Now it's split into multiple pages that aren't well interlinked.
only thing I can think of is they get more money with more pageviews
Sounds plausible. By far the plurality of complaints on that page have to do with the loss of customizability. It's as if Yahoo desperately wants people to flip through several pages of unrequested information from sports scores to stock quotes, where one custom page would have sufficed before.
This also ties in with the overall industry trend of using more pixels -- in the form of unnecessary whitespace and large fonts that, again, can't be customized by the user -- to display less information. Once again, the company gets more ad revenue as users struggle to access content that was previously displayed in a more compact format.
These days, beleaguered behemoths like Yahoo and Microsoft focus their business strategies on their wants and needs rather than those of their users. Obviously, this kind of abuse will only work until they're replaced by more customer-centric organizations.
Groups? It had the horrible, horrible interface! And it didn't work properly with different encodings.
Yes, indeed.