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What to do instead of Yahoo! Answers?
Yahoo! has officially and unrepentantly ruined Yahoo! Answers for everyone everywhere, and the last bastion of blessed green sanity, http://f.answers.vip.bf1.yahoo.com/, is now apparently a dead link. As the cons of the new format greatly outweigh the pros of Yahoo! Answers existing in the first place, I have decided to leave, as I hear many others have done.
All I need at this point is a website to use instead. Something convenient, user-friendly, and filling roughly the same function as Y!A used to not so long ago (Q&A-format preferable, but not required), with a large enough userbase to be able to reasonably expect an answer, and a design that isn't aesthetically repulsive.
My only regret is that I used AdBlock Plus the entire time I was here, so Yahoo! won't suffer any losses in revenue (no matter how small) from my departure.
Okay, good news! http://f.answers.vip.bf1.yahoo.com/ isn't a dead link after all. Just overloaded because everyone would rather be there than on the rubbish version. But seeing as it is only a matter of time, the question is still valid, albeit for future reference.
@June@ Seriosuly? Surely you're smart enough to realize that there was never any comma as "part of the link", just a comma that I typed *after pasting the link* into the description so that the sentences would be correctly punctuated.
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- Me firstLv 47 years agoFavorite Answer
i wonder how long that link is available for use of the original version of yahooanswers until it turns into this awful new format or until it's no longer there. I dislike this new yahooanswers format. I'd like to have the old format back.
- ElmbeardLv 77 years ago
I had a panic this morning too, when I suddenly got dead links. I had to go offline and recover as much as I could from the cache, and console myself to having to give up Y!A after nearly six years. It co-incided with an email from Yahoo informing me that they are centralising their entire European operations onto Ireland, and I would be expected to agree to new terms and conditions from 21st March.
Luckily it's come back for now. I think many of us are rather fed up with this constant battle with Yahoo's managers and new-style code stylists, who think they know what's best for us. Interesting that what's happened was an overload, due to so many of us doing what we can to avoid the Purple exit strategy.
- Anonymous7 years ago
it is not a dead link - you have included a comma at the end of your link
this link that I have bookmarked for the old format is still working
http://f.answers.vip.bf1.yahoo.com/
and now you have posted the correct link under Additional Details and it is working for you because you corrected the link by not copying the comma
