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? asked in Society & CultureEtiquette · 8 years ago

Who's happy with the new format of Y!A?

I haven't been on here lately so I'm not sure when it changed but I'm not seeing it as a change for the better. Can I no longer see my contacts and fans? Not as user friendly as far as I'm concerned. How's everyone else feel about it? Just curious. Thanks.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    Actually, I this is what I needed in order to spend less time here.

    YahooAnswers is no longer user friendly.

    There is no space to report people who are sexually disgustingly gross or bigoted racists.

    Where is spell check?

    Nothing is seen at a glance any longer.

    Where are my previously asked questions?

    This new "format" was a terrible decision.

  • 8 years ago

    Not user friendly. You said a mouthful. They've made it harder to navigate, and it takes longer to load pages. Sometimes I have to refresh the page, or leave the site and come back just to get a page to load.

    The design itself is more cluttered, with redundant features. When I type an answer, the formatting is completely erased, so I have a huge wall of text. I have to reload the page to see it correctly formatted. There's no preview feature.

    The visual demarcations between page elements are not distinct, which again makes navigation more difficult, and causes eye strain. The color scheme and some of the smaller default fonts cause eye strain.

  • J-Dawn
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    There is nothing about the new format that I think is an improvement over the old. In fact, I think they've pretty much ruined Answers. It's not user friendly. I wish I could see my answers in one place, listed in order like they were, and my questions in another place easily viewed. Half of my saved searches no longer work.

  • Antst
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I hate it.

    The box for answering questions has moved down, so I can no longer see the question when I answer.

    Also, the new color scheme means that everything blends together, so it is hard to find things.

    And there's a bug with the "edit" facility. Sometimes when we edit answers, the paragraphs disappear and we end up with one huge block of text that is hard to read.

    I have seen drama over the fact that people now see who has ranked their answer.

    I don't understand why Yahoo never quite gets anything right.

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  • 8 years ago

    Oh, the new format sucks, honey. I can't think of a single thing that is better about it. I've complained and they didn't even acknowledge it.

    Common Sense answered with one benefit. It is SO AWFUL that I now spend far less time here.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I hate it. Yahoo answers could of just been updated by colour and they could of changed the graphics but kept the layout the same so we all knew how to use it. I think the new format sucks bad.

  • I HATE this new format. I have switched to basic format and that helps but I want the format they had before the switch. So hard to read!!!

  • 8 years ago

    I personally really don't like it, it's not as user friendly as the old yahoo.

  • 8 years ago

    Nope.........and if I may cast 8 more votes for friends of mine who may not get the opportunity to vote: That's 9 OPPOSED // And 0 IN FAVOR.

    Truth be told. What it is, yo!!!!!!!!!

  • 8 years ago

    I hate it it's too confusin the other one was better

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