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Is it my imagination or is the new Y!A getting even more buggy?

What's going on? I'm finding it harder and harder to navigate Y!A, and certain problems like dropped "+" signs are still not fixed. We can't leave comments like we used to, there is no follow up. Is Y!A trying to drive away the math regulars?

Update:

That's a good idea, folks, thanks for the tip. "Go international", it works. But I wonder for how long.

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  • 8 years ago
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    The new Y!A took over my laptop and I tried hard to find a solution to go to the normal Y!A. It turns out that if you go to international and click on a country, you are led back to the normal Y!A. I agree that the new Y!A has some issues!

  • 8 years ago

    ...and the programming & design regulars.

    An interesting bug is to edit a post with formatting and then save it. All line breaks seem to disappear, with your pretty post collapsed into a block pararaph.

    I nearly left Y!A when I saw that. I went back to edit again, thinking -- no, that's not right, I really wasn't thinking if I was about to repeat the same step and expect different results -- and there was the post as I originally typed it! Sigh, I deleted and retyped a newline or two, clicked Save and got the same blob. Big surprise.

    Then, for some reason, I hit F5 to refresh, and the newlines came back. All was well as if nothing amiss had ever happened.

    Nope...I'm not seeing any bugs here.

  • 8 years ago

    I don't like this new YIA because

    I can't find a way to edit an answer

    once I post it. I agree: You have

    to go international to be able to

    do this.

  • 8 years ago

    It is going buggy. Its display is more attractive but it is clumsy and not as easy as the regular YA! that we have been accustomed to

  • 8 years ago

    I believe Yahoo wants Y!A to go away. They ARE driving people away. Nearly always I now goto ca.answers.yahoo.com now ... not nearly as many questions ... but question quality has really dropped anyway.

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