Comments on: Yahoo launching front page open to others' content

After months of testing, the Web pioneer opens up its new home page with the hope of attracting more active users and more lucrative advertising.

[Jonathan Machen]

Thank you, Stephen, for making reading about browsers and their attendant minutiae fun!

[HlLLARY CLITON]

I hope they fix the email...its been so slow last few months

[odubtaig]

They've been titting about with the mail code. One surreal result is that they've tried to AJAX up the Classic mail interface with the result that it has no new functionality but now you don't get any real feedback on loading progress, browser history is occasionally broken and they've reintroduced a bug that was fixed about two years ago in that it won't go to the absolute newest mails when you click 'check mail'.

Can't imagine why they're not kicking Google's arse.

[samwcook]

I used yahoo mail until a couple years ago, but gmail won me over it is very good! Competition is always nice though.

[kcopen]

now if they can get rid of the crappy teeth whitening, lose fat and other horrible front page ads along with the redesign, maybe i'll come back

[flickrz]

Very true. If they are making money only off of those ads; they are doomed.

[ofmyony]

I hope it works better than it looks. That screen shot is messy. The expanded view needs to take over the whole page not just a pop-up. Not good so far

[ofmyony]

Maybe they can block out the background or dim it somehow I think that would help.

When is this link (http://yahoo.com/try new) supposed to be working, because it surely isn't yet ...

[Shankland]

Check back in the afternoon of July 21--probably after 1 p.m. PDT some time, but Yahoo wasn't specific--for the new home page option. The company will start in the United States and gradually spread the new home page to other regions this week, next month, and next year.

[n3td3v]

It's a typo by the journalist, the correct address is http://yahoo.com/trynew

The journalist added a space inbetween try and new by mistake.

I like the sidebar preview idea, but why didn't they reuse my settings from their other systems?!? Why do I always have to replace the default weather city, the stocks I am watching etc I am doing the same thing with multiple Yahoo products (One Search, My.yahoo.com, widgets...) I spent a lot more time to customize my.yahoo.com and I don't really want to redo all that.

[Rod Roddy]

Uhhh??....I believe AOL has been doing something similar to this for months.....??????

[jessiethe3rd]

Yahoo = turning into AOL... portal with their search business probably being sold off.

[ca5ter]

After the home page Yahoo is a mess of different designs. It doesn't even feel like one site, but a bunch of sites tacked together. For all the employees Yahoo has, you would think they could at least have a consistent presentation layer.

[TV James]

They should fix the spam problem with their email. I don't give out the address and get 800 spam in my spam folder each month and another 10-20 that they miss.

[bpob1977]

I still think the new home page is terrible. The old page, while not the greatest, at least was quick to load and fairly straight-forward. In particular, I feel like I'm playing whack-a-mole with links on the new page as they seem to consistently move around and hide themselves.