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What did Yahoo do to Answers this time?
Today I go to Y!A and the main headers such as "Recommended" and "Newest" are gone, and I have to hunt around just to find where I can go to my saved searches. When I get there, I'm seeing questions from literally 4 years ago, and no apparent way to display only the most recent and/or open questions. My question is directed at the Yahoo administrators: why do you keep messing with things that work and making changes that don't need to be made, especially once people are used to the previous "new" look? Just stop it. All you're doing is pissing people off.
Editing my saved searches to display only things posted within the past X days (I chose 7 days) does nothing to prevent it from displaying things from months or years ago. This is beyond stupid.
I haven't been off the site for a while. I visit every morning and check on my saved searches for new questions, as well as going to the recommended questions once the saved search things run out. "Recommended" was there literally yesterday, 24 hours ago, and yesterday the saved search feature worked just fine. Today, "Recommended" is not on the menu of my Y!A home profile page, which is where I was finally able to find saved searches. Normally that's what comes up from the main Y!A home page.
The problem I'm experiencing is only happening on a Windows computer. On my Linux computer, the site displays perfectly fine, exactly as it did yesterday.
1 Answer
- Son of T3Lv 77 years ago
The Saved search problem is a glitch just reported by some, although I changed/edited mine and it worked fine. Since it appears you have been off the site for a while, you may need to recreate them in the new format.
As to the "Recommended" being gone, that was long ago, from its old location. Users for years have asked for everything in one spot, so Yahoo created the "Answers Home" profile where everything you do or have done flows. "Recommended" can be found there in the main menu.
