I'm talking about Yahoo.com. First they started deleting clubs without explanation, then they refused to list any club that they deemed to be of an adult nature (they still carried them, they just didn't provide any way to find them). Finally, they changed all the clubs, which worked well to "groups" which ware much slower and which have ads on every page. A few years ago, Yahoo changed their privacy policy to say that they would sell your private information unless you told them not to, and they thoughtfully defaulted everyone to "Yes". A month or so ago, they made another change, that unless you told them not to, they would use something to track where you go on the net.
The last straw for me was that they recently bought one of the best game review sites on the net, www.gamesdomain.com and completely ruined it. Games Domain used to have indepth reviews of hundreds of games, each with screenshots, and they would give you their honest opinion of the games. If the game was crap, they weren't afraid to say so. Some reviews even had a second opinion. Yahoo bought this site and raved about how they were going to turn it into the greatest games site ever, because they're *YAHOO*. All the reviews are gone, replaced by a one-paragraph description that looks like it was taken off the back of the box, no screenshots and a link to buy it from one of their partners. They've turned a great game review site into a glorified shopping site!
I sent them feedback and asked what happened to all the reviews and other content that Games Domain spent years compiling. Their response? "The feature you have requested is not available at this time."
You seem to be disappointed with certain "side features" that Yahoo has to offer....none of which I use.
Ever since I got this p.c. which was my first and only, I've used Yahoo for pretty much everything.
Yahoo.com is my homepage and has been for nearly 4 years now.
My brother's memorial website www.corychapman.com was created by me using Yahoo web hosting.
My family pays them $8.99 per month to maintain that website and it is well worth it considering the tools and extras they offer for that price.
It is a good deal.
That's why we use their services.
Yahoo has always been very straightforward and easy to use for me.
They have a s**tload of features and extra stuff, almost all of which are free so I have no complaints.
I can understand your disappointment for Yahoo screwing with those side features but since they do not affect me personally, I have no problem with them.
And dude, I've met 2 decent and attractive girls that live here in my city in the last year through Yahoo Personals and got laid by both of them so Yahoo is cool in my book!
No joke...I really did.
Any online service that gets me laid is great in my opinion.
Hehe!
I stand by Yahoo and will continue to do so.
Post Edited (03-21-04 08:50)
ASHTHECAT wrote:
> Ever since I got this p.c. which was my first and only, I've
> used Yahoo for pretty much everything.
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> Yahoo.com is my homepage and has been for nearly 4 years now.
>
>
> I stand by Yahoo and will continue to do so.
>
This is good stuff to hear, ASH. Since I work for a reseller of Yahoo's Yellow Pages selling advertisement space, it's always good to know there are folks out there who use it!
> Any online service that gets me laid is great in my opinion.
> Hehe!
http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypResults.py?stp=y&stx=8120393&city=New+York&state=NY&uzip=10007&country=us&msa=5600&cs=4&ed=lJt4lK1o2Ty2L84EwYIL9s.EdfJDCVIxzAKB8NbvFtcN&toggle=1&old_stxEsc=escort&qry=escort&ei=
Now THAT'S advertising!
I use Yahoo for their Fantasy Football every year (I'm a fanatic) and you certainly can't beat the price for the quality of FF that they give you. Am I happy about them selling my information? Not at all but I figure they're not the only ones to do it (which doesn't make it right) and they need to make money so I can live with it.
Hmmmm....
I clicked on that link Noodle and "Busty Yvonne" sounds interesting!
A "hot beef injection" is forseeable in my near future.
So THAT'S what the slip of paper inside that fortune cookie I cracked open last night meant!
WOW!
Hehe!
Post Edited (03-21-04 08:44)
Welllllllllllllllll .............
I use Yahoo Groups, and am fairly happy with the performance of same (Thumbs Up). However, this has generated enormous amounts of spam at my works e-mail (Thumbs Down). And the search function is well dodgy - it lists hardcore porn sites when I'm looking for "Solo Wargaming" (Thumbs Down). But it is free (Thumbs Up). However it does have that wretched "Yahoo Groups is an Advertiser Supported Service" message and divert (Thumbs Down).
Er, how many thumbs is that? Yeah, well, copecetic.
No.
"BATEMAN!!!!!!"
>You seem to be disappointed with certain "side features" that Yahoo has to
>offer....none of which I use.
When you think about it, most all the services listed in this thread are side features. Yahoo started out as just an indexed listing of various web sites. Now they've even screwed that up since their search box now defaults to doing a Google-like search of the web rather than their own index. You havet o go to individual categories before you're given the option of searching only Yahoo.
>I use Yahoo Groups, and am fairly happy with the performance of same
For me, clicking on a message in the groups takes about 20-30 seconds to bring up that page. In the clubs, reading individual messages used to take maybe 5-10 seconds each. Plus, I hate the way the messages are organized, you have the dates, which then show you a selection of messages that sort of cover the date in question, but usually overlapping with other dates. Clubs used to be organzied more like this board. The files section uses some weird protocol that only seems to work with IE. Maybe it works with other browsers, but it doesn't work with download managers like GetRight, so when the download aborts at about 75% (which most files over a meg usually do), there's no way for me to resume the download.
I have a Yahoo Group for my old Navy unit, but really all we use it for is a mailing list.
I still use it as my search engine.
I use it for email (with most of the "send me spam" things not checked) and news.
> I can understand your disappointment for Yahoo screwing with
> those side features but since they do not affect me personally,
> I have no problem with them.
>
> And dude, I've met 2 decent and attractive girls that live here
> in my city in the last year through Yahoo Personals and got
> laid by both of them so Yahoo is cool in my book!
> No joke...I really did.
Those cost anything to sign up for? Thinking of using them not that I'm just trying to get laid mind you... (although I won't complain if that turns into one fo the side benefits...)
Actually it does cost to sign up but I don't have a membership...the two girls had memberships and they contacted me!
You can post a free personal ad but if you want to contact anyone you have to cough up the $$.
It's like fishing...wait long enough and you'll get a bite and reel in a good one.
I didn't expect to get laid either...it just sort of happened but only after I had talked and dated each girl for at least a month.
Good luck!
Post Edited (03-24-04 19:10)
Sounds good enough for me! :)
Why anybody still believes Yahoo to be a good site is beyond me. Not only are almost all of their features poor when compared to equivalents offered by other sites, they buy excellent sites like gamesdomain.com, as JohnL mentioned, and completely ruin them. Urgh, I need a knife so I can go and kill somebody I think. And a new place to search for game reviews.
>And a new place to search for game reviews.
Try Game Rankings (http://www.gamerankings.com). They link to reviews on other sites. I see they've already pulled their Games Domain links. They still list the score that GD gave each game, but the links are gone.
Well I only deal with Yahoo because I have a group. Originally there was OneList and Egroups. Then Egroups took over OneList, and then Yahoo took over Egroups and it became Yahoogroups. I did belong to some Yahoo Clubs at one point and I think they were deleted because Yahoo probably thought it redundant to have both a groups site and a clubs site.