Yahoo redesign unusable
It is a move that reminds me of Pathfinder.com. It was early in the internet years, 1994, and they had an internet portal that served as a news aggregator, similar to Google News and Huffington Post.
This was slightly before Yahoo started their original directory, and the year before they got the domain name yahoo.com. Although Pathfinder was a web hit, Time Warner considered web portals a failure, so it was converted into the present format, a link page to magazine websites. Traffic dropped off, and Time Warner eventually moved on to destroy the also-popular web portal America Online.
Well, that reminds me of Yahoo, which has recently changed its website to a frames-based system, which is a throwback to the late 90s, when frames were introduced. You still see the obviously dated remnants from the days when a top box contained static links, a side box more static links, and a tiny box for content.
Yup. They went back to the tiny box. Even worse, the browser reports the webpage "done" while scripts are still loading, and buttons have no visible effect. Eventually if you just wait, it might do what you want, but there is no way of knowing that in advance.
And for the 10% of internet users still on dial-up? Goodbye. Yahoo doesn't serve you anymore, unless you have an hour or so to update one of your contacts. What is it doing the rest of the time? Loading stuff back into the side box that doesn't change. The top frame doesn't do anything either, except reload content that would have been static in the old design. The tiny box is where you must expect your awaited content.
Ouch. Another good website dies from feature bloat, because someone didn't know enough about the internet to leave it alone. Those of us who remember, will miss you.
This was slightly before Yahoo started their original directory, and the year before they got the domain name yahoo.com. Although Pathfinder was a web hit, Time Warner considered web portals a failure, so it was converted into the present format, a link page to magazine websites. Traffic dropped off, and Time Warner eventually moved on to destroy the also-popular web portal America Online.
Well, that reminds me of Yahoo, which has recently changed its website to a frames-based system, which is a throwback to the late 90s, when frames were introduced. You still see the obviously dated remnants from the days when a top box contained static links, a side box more static links, and a tiny box for content.
Yup. They went back to the tiny box. Even worse, the browser reports the webpage "done" while scripts are still loading, and buttons have no visible effect. Eventually if you just wait, it might do what you want, but there is no way of knowing that in advance.
And for the 10% of internet users still on dial-up? Goodbye. Yahoo doesn't serve you anymore, unless you have an hour or so to update one of your contacts. What is it doing the rest of the time? Loading stuff back into the side box that doesn't change. The top frame doesn't do anything either, except reload content that would have been static in the old design. The tiny box is where you must expect your awaited content.
Ouch. Another good website dies from feature bloat, because someone didn't know enough about the internet to leave it alone. Those of us who remember, will miss you.
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