Hi everyone,
Every day, we try to create the best possible My Yahoo! experience for you. Throughout the course of the “beta” phase for the new My Yahoo!, we read your constructive feedback on how to improve the product. Much of your feedback has been related to your ability to control your page. As a result, we are changing and evolving our approach to advertising on My Yahoo!.
Less Intrusive Advertising
If you use the new version, the current advertising unit that you are accustomed to seeing on your page has been removed. We feel that this will enable you to better control the layout of content on your page. As we continue to improve the product, we will be examining alternative ways to find the right balance between advertising and the best possible My Yahoo! user experience.
Retiring the Original My Yahoo!
In addition, we want to let you know that on July 14th we will be retiring the original My Yahoo! and moving everyone into the new version. At that point, access to the original My Yahoo! will no longer be enabled. The new version of My Yahoo! was built for you and similar to our recent advertising change, we will remain committed to improving the product based on your feedback.
If you haven’t had time to explore the new My Yahoo! yet, we invite you to check out these tips we created to help get you started and make this transition as easy as possible for people who are accustomed to the original My Yahoo!.
Enjoy the new space!
Adam
- My Yahoo! Marketing
[...] As planned, we transitioned everyone to the new My Yahoo! yesterday. We’re excited about this version because it provides a solid foundation for us to more quickly innovate and respond to your needs and requests. We still have a lot more in store for the product, and will be continuously improving it with the additional display controls and module enhancements that we know are important to you. [...]
I like the new my Yahoo, but I just recently was able to afford to switch to broadband. It comes in through a dish. I live in a rural area and most people I know have dial up around here on very old, analog phone lines. No fiber – optic here! I could not load Beta *anything* on dial up. I take it people who are stuck with dial up are just being tossed by the wayside? We were lucky to get 26.6 Kbps on a GOOD day.
Adam,
Please offer your customers the option of using the original version of MyYahoo. This can be accomplished by adding a “classic view” or “old school” version to your Beta format selections.
I have been a loyal Yahoo customer since it’s existance. Please consider this suggestion strongly, as I am considering switching from using Yahoo as my Homepage.
And BTW who ever paid attention to the ad(s) anyway!
The limit of 10 headlines is almost a dealbreaker for me – why change from before? Overall it is an improvement though, the tabs were needed a while ago.
I think it’s the trend on all commercial pages: They make it hard to view it except on full screen…so they can expose you to the maximum number of ads or messages possible. SPRINT did the same when they “updated” their page. The sign-in is all the way to the right and if you don’t use full screen you have to scroll to the right – before the sign-in was at the left edge, so no matter what size your browser was set, the sign-in window was right there, no need for horizontal scrolling.
Oh! well it’s free they say
If you are a stock trader it stinks. I will have to find something else. I don’t have time for this, too slow and not user friendly
I import data from my yahoo stock portfolio to Excel using Excel’s import tool. In the old version of Yahoo, Excel would highlight the table containing my portfolio and the table would be imported to my spreadsheet as shown in Yahoo. In the new version the table is highlighted as before but along with the portfolio data I also get a lot of extraneous text that does not show on the yahoo page. The table I want is buried in all this. I am sure I am not the only one doing this. Why did this get changed?
I have made a lot of suggestions and comments, and I’m sure some of them will eventually show up in the options on the home page. They are not just sitting on the new Yahoo, so just keep watching.
The old version would mark a stock symbol with an asterisk when the stock had a news item posted within the past 24 hours. The new version does not do that; it has annoying white cartoon boxes next to the symbols. Now I have to click each symbol to determine if a news item has been recently posted (or otherwise hold my cursor over the white cartoon boxes and wait for the recent news to load!) and this is very inefficient and time consuming. Please mark the symbols again when a recent news item is posted so I can hone in on it!!!!
Where does the indicator appear showing a stock has a recent news story, like the previous My Yahoo!?
How can I have a module span three columns at the bottom of my page? (TV listings)
the minus sign is missing from the stock change value as well. this makes copy and paste worthless.
The missing AD is geat. I do not like the new mail much… when i click on In box for mail takes forever to open another page? Why ? Should it not just open? Also everytime i try to do anything it says at the bottom” waiting for yeildmanger…. ? Keep trying tho – ya’ll git er done some day!
TV listing on myway.com spans the whole screen, and you can high light your favorites in red.
last message from me. i finally fixed my page. one of the content modules was way too wide and thus stretced out my page (the music videos module). once i deleted it everything shrunk down exactly the way it should. now my page looks great and actually a lot better than the original my yahoo. play around with your modules a bit till you get what you want is the best advice i can give.
And yahoo! Fix this issue up and just give us the option to resize our modules manually please!
Its great but wat happened with the avatars?I loved the avatars. I made soo many cute ones.We NEED avatars!!!
I can’t get my Mail to show up on my home page. This is a very important item for me. I’ve tried searching for Mail Preview but it comes up with two results but neither of them will open. Also I now have 5 My New Tabs at the top of the page – how do I delete them? Thanks for the help. I kinda liked your old page better. Sorry.
bill c
I use three columns without scrolling. They fit just right.
Looks nice, but when using Firefox and returning to the home page after having navigated off the page to read and article or whatever, it always snaps to the top of the page. It doesn’t matter how far down the home page you’ve scrolled, when you navigate back to the home page, it always starts you back up at the top. Very irritating – I don’t use Yahoo much anymore because of this.
To add your Yahoo! Mail Preview, click “Add Content” > “My Yahoo! Essentials” > “Yahoo! Mail Preview” > “I’m Done”.
To delete a tab, click on the tab name of the tab you would like to delete. An “x” will appear next to the tab name. Click the “x” to delete.
I feel it be good to have more richer color schemes,with mixing multible colors ! And if you want to keep your old yahoo
Is there any way to stop the page from always starting at the top of the page, after returning from a link that you have read? Its so annoying having to navigate the site every time you read an article to find where you where up to. Tend to just give up after a few times.