Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update

Posted by Unknown on from the everyone-hates-change dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The new NEO format of Yahoo Groups is being rolled out to users and there is no option to go back. Users and moderators are posting messages asking Yahoo to go back to the old format. Yahoo is responding with a vanilla 'thank you for your feedback we are working to make it better' comment. Most posters are so frustrated that they just want the old site back. One poster writes 'Yahoo has effectively destroyed the groups, completely, themselves.'"

6 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Yahoo by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm becoming convinced that Yahoo is the secret troll branch of Google.

    --
    It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
    - E. Debs
  2. Re:Is this news? by Mitchell314 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I didn't know yahoo had a dedicated enough following to have a revolt. I learn something new every Mercurial day.

    --
    I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
  3. Re:Ignoring your users is the new mantra by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot to end your sentence with a period.

    Thank you for your feedback we are working to make it better.

  4. Re:Change is hard - Extrapolated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Change is hard for a lot of people. Yahoo Groups, unfortunately is stuck running some really ancient "forum" software that really isn't designed to be a forum at all. It's designed to be an email list. I use Yahoo Groups daily, and it really needs to incorporate modern features. Neo brings a lot of basic forum features to Yahoo Groups, like inline attachments. The people asking for the old format back, change is hard, embrace it and move forward. Ask Yahoo to fix bugs you find in Neo, that will be much better for the community than to continue being stuck in the old ways.
    Joseph Elwell.

    Her's a kick in the balls.

    I know change is hard and you want to go back to not having swollen-blue-balls, but embrace it and move forward. Sooner or later, you'll become accustomed to me kicking you in the balls. Don't be so resistant to change.

  5. Re:Lesson not learned by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Product stages:
    - crap << current Yahoo Groups
    - alpha
    - beta
    - pray
    - live!

    Unless you are Google, Then it goes

    Product stages:
    - crap
    - alpha
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - beta
    - Product Canceled due to excessive usefulness or popularity!

    --
    You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
  6. Re:Lesson not learned by FatLittleMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Then there's the Microsoft release cycle:
    - Crap
    - Alpha
    - Crap
    - Alpha
    - Crap
    - Alpha
    - Crap

    --
    Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.