Why did Yahoo decide to go from an orderly, easily navigated website to this disorganized, hodgepodge?

Just over a year ago Y!A upgraded the system and added further options and made some changes that were OK but unfortunately the present purple format has too many frequently recurring glitches that require prompting, refreshing, jump starting and rebooting. Because of this Y!A is now a lot less popular than it used to be with the old green format.

The previous green format had a lot fewer glitches and was much easier to navigate.

Yahoo has advanced to declining middle age. I'm serious. Entertainment platforms like this are like television shows, and the best television shows usually have a life span of around 7 years or so. They tend to reach their creative peak at about 5 years in. Then at the height of their popularly the original creators often jump ship, using that popular success as a springboard to other ventures. Upper management is fine with this, because retaining the original creators (i.e., renewing their contracts) would be expensive.

What's left behind are the lesser talents to run the show, or lesser (and also cheaper) talents are brought in. Sometimes these lesser talents rise to the occasion and continue to deliver an inspired product but usually they do not. In the case of television shows, what you generally see around this point is the introduction of a baby who is "ohhh, so cute!" For a show or two. Then it's like "Ugh, that cooing over the baby is so annoying!"

In the case of Yahoo Answers, the "baby" was the switch to the Purple Format, which really didn't even get an interim "oh so cute" moment before it progressed to "so annoying!" But this evolution within the Yahoo structure has not been limited to Yahoo Answers alone; the entire organization seems adrift, in search of the perfect baby to save it but in the meantime just mucking things up with load after load of messy diapers.

I can only imagine a couple of reasons:

a - it uses less resources (and thus they need fewer servers to operate the site during peak periods)

b - it allows for more ads and - therefore - more ad income

c - it is much more mobile-device friendly (I think this is most likely)

I'm not sure if any of those is true!

Here's my follow up question. Is there any way to change it back? Remember when they forced us all to the NEW mail but then gave us the option to go back to "classic" mail? Why isn't there some way to do that with the main page?

It's obviously time to jump ship since the use of the product is no longer usable. I have no use for this type of idiocy.

The Yamster works in mysterious ways.

Always making backwards "improvements".

they need to fix the blue coward's avatar, it server no useful purpose.

And the silliness of moving categories....well, silly!

I don't think they are really trying to improve it...I don't know what the hell they are thinking.

It's time to collect all my yahoo data and move somewhere else.

Apparently, this is what us users wanted! Funny, I don't remember asking for this...

According to the email they sent me, they're convinced the new format is much easier to use.

I don't mind the organization, it's the idiotic inquistr articles they have now.