Baffling to some HN readers perhaps, but Yahoo is still one of the biggest online destinations. It has a DAU count an order of magnitude larger than say Reddit, and it monetizes those users far more effectively.
Citation needed.
Yahoo.com, rank 12, Reddit.com, rank 19.
I would say that Reddit, despite its popularity, is notoriously mismanaged, so it's actually quite an appropriate comparison. Reddit is just culturally more relevant :-)
I know for sure that it has always massively undercounted reddit traffic for example but I'll bet it is fairly accurate for Yahoo, since "runs Windows and random toolbars" is their target audience.
Plus my main point was that Yahoo is still a huge site. Maybe not in our circles, but a lot of people use it.
That's what an MBA would say.
Incidentally, they've also lost all my mail from before year 2001, when I actually use them for personal communications, meaning all those emails are now lost (well maybe I have a backup somewhere...). What a fucking useless company.
It seems like if you haven't used it in 12 months they just delete all your old emails. No warning whatsoever.
https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com
(Again, whatever that means.)
But I think they have a few valuable properties. Sports. Finance. And for whatever reason, the old folks in my family love their Yahoo Weather app.
The only reason I get yahoo email is because there was a vulnerability a few years ago and everyone's account got broken into.
Verizon may be getting out of content. With antitrust regulation picking up, it's quite likely that telcos will be required to get out of the content business. Historically, the US made movie companies stop owning movie theaters, and car companies stop owning dealers. Although Yahoo is now such a loser that it's hard to make an antitrust case against Verizon owning them. AT&T and DirectTV, though...