Posted on 04/18/2016 12:24:07 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Yahoo goes on sale Monday. At least some of you reading this are thinking, "Yahoo? Are they still around?"
Yes, this company founded in 1994, is ancient by Internet standards, but, according to the measurement company comScore, Yahoo sites are the third-most trafficked on the Internet. Among its properties are Yahoo Finance, News, Search, Mail, Tumblr and Flickr.
Why is Yahoo on sale? Despite having a billion monthly unique visitors — as the company claimed in its 2014 report — Yahoo just hasn't been able to make its investors happy.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Flickr is where I have all my photos. Mail is where I have all my mail. Tumblr is where I have all my Tumblr.
Ya Who?
Yahoo has long handled all email for ATT. Last November, they switched to something called U-verse for their business customers. Almost everybody in my company has been locked out of their email since November, and I’ve had enough and switched the whole thing — Internet, Web page, and phones to Time Warner. Bye, bye ATT. This is the end of a lifetime relationshiip for me.
At some point about seven years ago....I had a blog which I wrote and was on a Yahoo site. One day...the Yahoo management folks announced that rather than going to the next version or updated version of the blog feature from Yahoo....they were dumping all blog content/capability——period. They gave everyone about 90 days notice. I sat there....kinda peeved...but accepted it. The thing was....they hyped up and talked about a down-load function which they would put up and allow you to take your old blog with you....to another site.
So I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited.
About seven days prior to the end....they said sorry....they couldn’t make the down-load function work....so you were basically screwed.
I sat for an entire weekend....copy page by page in some text file....probably sixteen hours of my time to save three years of a blog. I was angry, with thousands of others who had used their service, and I would have even paid for the blog capability (a reasonable amount)....but they had no interest in developing some pay-back system.
From my prospective...the top level management have no idea how to run a company, or make a profit. Even for a simple email account....you ought to be paying them $20 a year for the service, instead of a free option as it is today.
Then there was AltaVista. It was instantly obvious that Yahoo's model was a dead end.
Then there was Google. It was obvious that AltaVista was a nice try, but Google gave better results with less work.
It's been obvious ever since that search rules, and library science isn't.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-download-guide-with-15-awesome-examples/
Humans should think. Machines should work.
I'm perfectly OK with Gmail. No reason to be paying $20 for what should be free.
Of course, if you've got an NSA problem, then you should be using something else. Or at least something else on top of Gmail.
If you've got a body of content you want to show the world, you should host it locally on your own hardware. Then you should buy a domain name, host it somewhere, and sync your local version to the hosted version whenever it changes. That way, if the host goes south, for whatever reason, you don't lose your content, but instead, you rehost it somewhere else! Or, if it's really hot, let the likes of Wikileaks or Cryptome mirror it!
The bottom line being, you always have a full copy in your possession. That way, no need for wget!
If they’re anything at all like their email service oh hell no...: )
Can’t even get to your email without click bait traps all over the place and that’s with the paid version...
Left AT&T too because the bills kept climbing higher and higher and the constant nagging calls to upgrade service so the salespeople could replace my plan with something “better” (in other words so they could earn more sales commissions)
All things Google concern me. I don't use Chrome or Google Search, and while I do have a Gmail account, it's my designated SPAM email address -- the one I give to companies I suspect will sell my information.
Not that I have anything to hide. I just take offense at the government looking....
I wouldn’t buy it. I haven’t heard about one internet company coming back from the dead.
I’ll look into hushmail.
Thank you for the tip.
Yahoo needs to die. It was once reliable but since the 90 day wonder Melissa Mayer took over it has gone down hill like a snowball.
She got docked 15 million for poor performance and still made 35 million. Are these people really worth this much?
>>Can’t even get to your email without click bait traps all over the place and that’s with the paid version...<<
Here I sit using WinXP Pro and Outlook for my mail. AdBlockPlus keeps all the ads off my screen. NoScript keeps the other invaders away. No I’m not going to update to Win10.
Oh, I haven’t had a virus in about 10 years. That was what prompted me to quit updating every week.
So where is the FR backup site these days? Went to Yahoo and got a sign in page. Didn’t have to sign in before to read the posts.
When Marissa Mayer took over, Yahoo sank. She changed the look of the email and the types of stories on it’s home page.
Nothing but dead people stories and how great liberals are and news stories which are just ads. The email screen is laid out all wrong. Don’t worry about her, she has received $365 million for 5 years and will get $37 million when she is fired.
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