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Yahoo! Sports Redesign Sparks Controversy, Disdain From Users

Posted by timothy on from the so-people-like-plain-and-readable-formats? dept.

coastal984 writes "Yahoo! launched their latest redesign over the past couple of weeks, revamping their utilitarian Yahoo! Sports section with a new-age, modernized look, which features a much darker, graphical background, and light, larger text. Only problem is, the sports buffs that frequented Yahoo! Sports loved the basic, easy to read and comprehend presentation that the old site used (Which was a predominately plain white background, and smaller, dark text. Thousands of users took to Yahoo's uservoice page to express their discontent, begging for the old design back."

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  1. One word by kodiaktau · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terrible.

  2. Everybody wants to be Bing by istartedi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everybody wants to be Bing. Why, I have no idea. Of course Bing didn't invent background images, but it seems like Google got scared by Bing (once again, why?) and started laying more eye candy on things. Then of course there's the infinite scrolling fad, which I call "tantalus scrolling" after the figure from mythology who was condemned to drink from a cup where the water level always lowered just below his lips. So. Yet another crappy Yahoo design doesn't surprise me. A lot of us defected from Flickr over this.

    Anyway, long story short is that the web design community has collectively hit the crack pipe, and users have to live in the ghetto they create.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?