Excuse me fellow orgers, but I'm very pissed off this Wednesday morning!

I'm just waking up and sitting in front of my desktop, clicking on my broswer and going straight to my home page.

And then without warning, I notice that Yahoo! has gone freaking mobile smartphone mode on MY DESKTOP!!!!

Who OR What in the hell is responsible for this crap?!? You know, I really sick and tired for some people in the tech world going all "anti-desktop" with every damn thing.

This machine I'm using is a desktop computer, NOT a got damn smartphone OR tablet. I want my original Yahoo! home page back!!!

The same happened to me!! Everything was normal this morning, then I go out to do some errands and come back, log on and Yahoo had changed!!!!!

they seem to do that every so often ... then it changes back...

whenever it happens ... i just think .. they do it ... and everyone complains ... and then it is "whallah" it is back to normal ....

I'm so sick of their ignorant & poorly-written stories.

People still go to Yahoo?

That happens to me sometimes. There should be a link near the bottom of the page that says "Desktop|Mobile" where you can click which orientation you want.

TonyVanDam said:

Excuse me fellow orgers, but I'm very pissed off this Wednesday morning!

I'm just waking up and sitting in front of my desktop, clicking on my broswer and going straight to my home page.

And then without warning, I notice that Yahoo! has gone freaking mobile smartphone mode on MY DESKTOP!!!!

Who OR What in the hell is responsible for this crap?!? You know, I really sick and tired for some people in the tech world going all "anti-desktop" with every damn thing.

This machine I'm using is a desktop computer, NOT a got damn smartphone OR tablet. I want my original Yahoo! home page back!!!

They didn't give you an option to keep it desktop?

Timmy84 said:

People still go to Yahoo?

It's one of the few homepages allowed at my job.

Timmy84 said:

People still go to Yahoo?

Yes, and I've been using Yahoo since 1994, the early years of the World Wide Web. Not everyone is part of the Google or Bing bandwagons. And besides, there is no shame in having plenty of e-mail addresses. Yahoo's maps are also just as good as Google's.

As for search engines, Dogpile & Startpage are better.

Timmy84 said:

TonyVanDam said:

Excuse me fellow orgers, but I'm very pissed off this Wednesday morning!

I'm just waking up and sitting in front of my desktop, clicking on my broswer and going straight to my home page.

And then without warning, I notice that Yahoo! has gone freaking mobile smartphone mode on MY DESKTOP!!!!

Who OR What in the hell is responsible for this crap?!? You know, I really sick and tired for some people in the tech world going all "anti-desktop" with every damn thing.

This machine I'm using is a desktop computer, NOT a got damn smartphone OR tablet. I want my original Yahoo! home page back!!!

They didn't give you an option to keep it desktop?

Hell no! And THAT is one more reason why I'm piss with Yahoo at the moment.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

They didn't give you an option to keep it desktop?

Hell no! And THAT is one more reason why I'm piss with Yahoo at the moment.

That's weird...

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

People still go to Yahoo?

Yes, and I've been using Yahoo since 1994, the early years of the World Wide Web. Not everyone is part of the Google or Bing bandwagons. And besides, there is no shame in having plenty of e-mail addresses. Yahoo's maps are also just as good as Google's.

As for search engines, Dogpile & Startpage are better.

I've been on Bing for a while now but I might check out Dogpile and Startpage.

It's sort of a mixture between the old page for desktops and the newer pages optimized for mobile devices. It's workable, I think. The buttons are ridiculously oversized for desktop though.

Why don't they just utilize scripts that will optimize the dimensions of the page based on what type of a device you happen to be using? If pages can track down pretty much everything else (what version of Flash you're using, where you're from etc.), why not that?

GOOD NEWS: There is a way to get most of Yahoo back in desktop mode.

All I have to do was click on My Yahoo, then scroll down to the bottom of the My Yahoo page and click on the desktop option. Problem solved!

But I still hate that f***ing mobile mode. And I also don't like the fact that the deskop option is not on the main page (meaning the mobile page) for Yahoo users to know about it right away.

omg fuck Yahoo, that thing is a relic omg

TonyVanDam said:

Excuse me fellow orgers, but I'm very pissed off this Wednesday morning!

I'm just waking up and sitting in front of my desktop, clicking on my broswer and going straight to my home page.

And then without warning, I notice that Yahoo! has gone freaking mobile smartphone mode on MY DESKTOP!!!!

Who OR What in the hell is responsible for this crap?!? You know, I really sick and tired for some people in the tech world going all "anti-desktop" with every damn thing.

This machine I'm using is a desktop computer, NOT a got damn smartphone OR tablet. I want my original Yahoo! home page back!!!

That is because peeps are buying more smartphones than desktop computers now...

I predict smart phones will take over from lap tops and desk tops.

They are already a computer, phone, camera item all in one.

The way of the future.

The way of not getting anything done due to the limited interface.

luv4u said:

I predict smart phones will take over from lap tops and desk tops.

They are already a computer, phone, camera item all in one.

The way of the future.

.......and a watch & a (soon to be) digital TV.

I also predict that typewriting skills will fall at the waste side right along with cursive handwriting. But it doesn't make it right.

My Yahoo! still looks the same.

PurpleJedi said:

My Yahoo! still looks the same.

The My Yahoo section is mostly the same. But it's no longer the main page of yahoo.com because of the current mobile mode that replaced it.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

People still go to Yahoo?

Yes, and I've been using Yahoo since 1994, the early years of the World Wide Web. Not everyone is part of the Google or Bing bandwagons. And besides, there is no shame in having plenty of e-mail addresses. Yahoo's maps are also just as good as Google's.

As for search engines, Dogpile & Startpage are better.

You know Yahoo is run by Marissa Mayer, who prior to becoming the CEO at Yahoo was a major executive at Google since the beginning?

Essentially, her mission at Yahoo is to bring some Google magic to the much-beleagured Yahoo who have been haemorraghing money for the better part of a decade.

And no, Yahoo Maps are nowhere near as good as Google's.

ColAngus said:

they seem to do that every so often ... then it changes back...

whenever it happens ... i just think .. they do it ... and everyone complains ... and then it is "whallah" it is back to normal ....

I'm sorry, but

Militant said:

TonyVanDam said:

Yes, and I've been using Yahoo since 1994, the early years of the World Wide Web. Not everyone is part of the Google or Bing bandwagons. And besides, there is no shame in having plenty of e-mail addresses. Yahoo's maps are also just as good as Google's.

As for search engines, Dogpile & Startpage are better.

You know Yahoo is run by Marissa Mayer, who prior to becoming the CEO at Yahoo was a major executive at Google since the beginning?

Essentially, her mission at Yahoo is to bring some Google magic to the much-beleagured Yahoo who have been haemorraghing money for the better part of a decade.

And no, Yahoo Maps are nowhere near as good as Google's.

1. Well turning Yahoo into Google Nexus-wannabe is NOT a good idea at all. Again, there is too much of this anti-desktop agenda going around in the tech world right now.

2. And I for one use Yahoo Maps a lot more often than Google's Maps. It just works.

TonyVanDam said:

Militant said:

You know Yahoo is run by Marissa Mayer, who prior to becoming the CEO at Yahoo was a major executive at Google since the beginning?

Essentially, her mission at Yahoo is to bring some Google magic to the much-beleagured Yahoo who have been haemorraghing money for the better part of a decade.

And no, Yahoo Maps are nowhere near as good as Google's.

1. Well turning Yahoo into Google Nexus-wannabe is NOT a good idea at all. Again, there is too much of this anti-desktop agenda going around in the tech world right now.

2. And I for one use Yahoo Maps a lot more often than Google's Maps. It just works.

It isn't anti-desktop agenda at all. It's pro-mobile agenda. Look at the sales of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) compared to desktops and traditional laptops. Look at how Windows 8 is designed for mobile devices. Look at Canonical launching Ubuntu for Android. Mac OSX is becoming more and more like iOS every day. That's the future of computing. The traditional desktop paradigm will be completely obsolete within 15 years.

And that's fine with what you prefer to use, but the level of worldwide detail in Yahoo Maps is years and years behind Google Maps. For simple functions I am sure it is competent. But you'd be mad to try and use it for any advanced or in-depth functionality.

TonyVanDam said:

luv4u said:

I predict smart phones will take over from lap tops and desk tops.

They are already a computer, phone, camera item all in one.

The way of the future.

.......and a watch & a (soon to be) digital TV.

I also predict that typewriting skills will fall at the waste side right along with cursive handwriting. But it doesn't make it right.

PurpleJedi said:

My Yahoo! still looks the same.

Did you clear your cookies/history recently? My Yahoo page changed right after I did, and I hate the way it looks now.

It strikes me as odd that many people prefer viewing the internet on the smallest of screens (smartphones & tablets) now, while simultaneously demanding televisions with screens that get bigger and bigger.

Militant said:

TonyVanDam said:

1. Well turning Yahoo into Google Nexus-wannabe is NOT a good idea at all. Again, there is too much of this anti-desktop agenda going around in the tech world right now.

2. And I for one use Yahoo Maps a lot more often than Google's Maps. It just works.

It isn't anti-desktop agenda at all. It's pro-mobile agenda. Look at the sales of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) compared to desktops and traditional laptops. Look at how Windows 8 is designed for mobile devices. Look at Canonical launching Ubuntu for Android. Mac OSX is becoming more and more like iOS every day. That's the future of computing. The traditional desktop paradigm will be completely obsolete within 15 years.

And that's fine with what you prefer to use, but the level of worldwide detail in Yahoo Maps is years and years behind Google Maps. For simple functions I am sure it is competent. But you'd be mad to try and use it for any advanced or in-depth functionality.

If it's a pro-mobile agenda, then Yahoo should have their mobile mode on smartphones & tablets only and keep that shit off of desktops. Period!

And don't get it twisted. I'm fully aware that desktop computers will fad into the background like the microwave oven. But I will not stop using desktops just because of the pro-mobile agenda of having tablets (with or without hardware typing keyboards) to replace desktops full-time.

Good grief, laptops suppose to replace desktops back in the 2000's. What happen? I tell you; Laptops have their limitations. And the limitations of smartphones & tablets are also going to be the reason why desktops will not die anytime soon.

The page seems to retain the right dimensions when you zoom out two levels (e.g. press "-" or "ctrl + minus key" twice). Beats me why they don't automatically detect what platform the user is on and just scale the dimensions according to that.

The old page looked really cluttered, so anything should be an improvement. I just can't get over how silly those oversized buttons look on most "redesigned pages".

For that matter, I live in Helsinki (Finland) and the new page shows the current temperature outside in Fahrenheit.

So they're able to detect where I live, but can't be arsed to display the temperature in Celsius degrees?

Great work, guys.