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1. Yes, it’s great and we can have more pages than on the old My Yahoo! which was limited to 6 pages (I currently have 8 pages with topics such as: “news” , “internet” (with tech blogs, Yahoo! blogs, …), the first page named “welcome” with the most interesting feeds, … ).

   But at the same time we can’t have so many modules as before. Why are we now limited to 300 modules ? It’s good to have a limit but I find it too low and anyway on the old My Yahoo! it was OK to have more than 500 modules, why change the limit ?

   Therefore, because I have something like 460 modules (on 8 pages) on My Yahoo! Beta, like I had on the old My Yahoo!, I can’t add new modules anymore (unless I add an RSS feed on the RSS reader of Yahoo! Mail Beta). Could you set the limit as it was before ?
   Thanks.

   Comment by Michael — July 3, 2007 #

2. Please, people - this isn’t new. This isn’t different. This isn’t something that someone who is saavy enough to know they want a personal start page doesn’t already know about.

   Where are the widgets? Where are the direct pipelines into other Yahoo! properties? Where is the functionality that sets MyYahoo! apart from iGoogle, Netvibes, etc. and puts you out front like your were three or four years back?

   I have to tell you, it gets more and more difficult to be a Yahoo! enthusiast; bad enough you drop the ball and let the competition overtake you from WAYYYYY behind, but then you serve up old functionality and pretend it’s new just because the UI has changed.

   C’mon, people - take this in the spirit it’s intended. I started using Yahoo! because you were the leaders; now I stay because I *like* you, but with all the cool things coming out everywhere BUT HERE, that’s not only not going to be enough soon - it’s just not going to be, period.

   Comment by Jeff — July 3, 2007 #

3. How the heck can I get the skinny column back over to the left side of the page?

   Comment by D King — July 4, 2007 #

4. Wow guys!!!!!!! your easy breezy new update is over the moon!!!!
   i LOVE the aquarium theme. other people complain too much. all these cool features and its FREE!

   come on people give yahoo a standing “o”

   kat

   Comment by kat — July 4, 2007 #

5. I agree with Jeff, It’s time to get ahead. Ask your Y! Widgets team to collaborate with you…

   Comment by Allan Ruiz — July 4, 2007 #

6. What Jeff said, but even some minor incremental enhancements would be nice: Being able to change the sequence of the page tabs and designate which page is the default when you click “My Yahoo!”

   Comment by Mick — July 4, 2007 #

7. I have to agree with the original poster. Yes, the eye candy is prettier than the other services mentioned above. How about some real improvements, like popping up a tooltip on mouse hover in the weather module or popping up a tooltip on mouse hover in the calendar module? how about at least a visual cue in the month view that certain dates have scheduled items? All three suggestions are already implemented elsewhere, so what’s so hard?

   Comment by John — July 4, 2007 #

8. If you folks have an agreement with Verizon for the Yahoo “Premium” service, when are you going to let us vzw users access to the “my yahoo beta”?

   Comment by Alan Yandow — July 5, 2007 #

9. I also have to agree with the first comment from Jeff.

   Comment by Taylor — July 5, 2007 #

10. Alan, support for Verizon will likely be available in the coming months.

    Comment by onehotRSS — July 6, 2007 #

11. I would ask that you please fix the currency converter. Somewhere in the change it lost the ability to be customized to currencies that I want to know about and be shown on the My Yahoo page.

    Comment by Ken — July 6, 2007 #

12. Where did all My Bookmarks go?

    I just checked out the beta version of My Yahoo!. At least half my bookmarks don’t show up there. But when I go back to the “classic” version of My Yahoo!, they’re all there.

    Anyone else have this problem? Will the problems go away or am I going to lose my bookmarks?

    Comment by Christy — July 10, 2007 #

13. i don’t think i have a website yet, im still learning thanks to yahoo and my yahoo everything is getting much simpler.i am looking at some online job resources and will want to set up my own web in the future and my yahoo i know for a fact will be there for me so i close know with a big hearty thank you. we love you out here in the wild world.

    Comment by roger yawn — July 10, 2007 #

14. I *love* the new ability to drag content to another page, just by dropping it on the button for my other page. Sure, it seems like a small thing, but has really made it so much easier to play with my pages, experimenting until I have just what I want.

    Thanks!

    Comment by misterpapugee — July 11, 2007 #

15. Family is one of the great social institutions. What we want from the web is to be able to share our digital lives using a complete communications package (including rich media) over a nationwide (worldwide) network, with family and friends (separately) who are located in disparate regions of the Earth. That means sharing calendars, contacts, IM, blogs, etc. with them and no one else, all at one web address. Remember KIS.

    Can you do that Yahoo!? Start thinking about cost per family too. Keep it down. Sure I’d like to get paid for the idea. Thanks.

    Comment by Dennis D. — July 23, 2007 #

16. My yahoo beta is good. Need to be able to select preference for text colors. Many of us choose white so we can have high contrast. Using light Blue for text is not good.

    Also would be good for white background if the secondary back ground was a little darker. Would greatly enhance.

    See AT&T Yahoo. Why are they a step ahead?

    Comment by Billg — July 23, 2007 #

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