Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties

Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by camus2 on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:54AM (#7345557)

> Still, I imagine the grand plan is to make Yahoo “cool enough” that people will actually want to use a Yahoo ID consistently. We’ll see how that one goes.

For what? as a consumer,what service Yahoo does offer that would make me want to get a yahoo id?

As a developper ,Yahoo has a few interesting services but that's it. Yahoo's shopping spree is over but it did not make it more relevant.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by specialp on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:59AM (#7345741)

Yahoo runs many services that have traffic that most start-ups here would die for. Number one finance site,number one news site, huge fantasy sports, Flickr, Delicious, significant search traffic. People on HN tend to dismiss them but we are indeed talking one of the most trafficked websites on Earth. I would say there is more value having a Yahoo ID than most other sites due to how much they offer.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by kevincrane on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:29AM (#7345830)

It's not popular but I think Yahoo Mail is way better than a lot of people give it credit for as well.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by mattmanser on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @04:23AM (#7346123)

A brief bit of googling shows Yahoo mail has similar numbers of users as Hotmail and Gmail, somewhere between 200-400 millionish, hard numbers aren't often announced.

So it's popular, though has lost it's top spot.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by kevincrane on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @06:47PM (#7350822)

Oh right, I guess meant "not trendy". I know it's pretty widely-used, but it unfortunately and unfairly tends to elicit the same response as when someone tells you they use AOL for their internet.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by dhimes on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @08:51AM (#7346878)

And Yahoo mail has taken over verizon mail, at least in some hubs.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by joecomotion on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:07AM (#7345770)

Delicious left Big Purple long ago.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by frankc on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:02AM (#7345594)

Yahoo has a good fantasy sports platform. They might be the leader there though espn may have passed them by now.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by alook on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:25AM (#7345665)

Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Seems like they're giving people a reason to use their products, and then making a play to have an OAuth-level relationship with the users. Maybe they want visibility into how a user authorizes third-party apps (FB gets an awful lot of insight from FB connect!) or maybe they just want to solidify their user lock-in.

Either way, I can't imagine they justified the engineering work for massive redesign on seemingly not-profitable properties like Weather/Flickr without having a solid long-term plan for how to capitalize on that.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/15/yahoo-weather-android-red... [2] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/05/20/a-better-brighter-flick... [3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/03/yahoo-sports-gets-ios-7-red...

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by danieldk on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @03:26AM (#7345963)

Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Actually, the recent changes made me quit Flickr. It's now an ugly mixture of new and old (especially if you use the organiser, etc.) and when you are logged in (which is likely when you use Flickr) you get an unremovable, ugly, purple Yahoo bar.

I was a paying user since 2009. Now Smugmug gets my (and my wife's) money.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by okasaki on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @05:15AM (#7346239)

The Flickr redesign has been the worst UI change I've ever seen on the web. I've been on Flickr since 2007 and really enjoyed its interface - much like reddit (pre- custom subreddit styles) it was clean and fast. Now it's ugly, confusing and very sluggish.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by mark_l_watson on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:32PM (#7348309)

I really like the new Flickr, but I usually just use photo stream and sets.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by jsight on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:43AM (#7347155)

FWIW, I have started to avoid Yahoo Sports since the redesign. The site is much slower and more difficult to navigate than it was before.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by PakG1 on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:34AM (#7345686)

This is the main reason why I have my Yahoo ID. I've been involved in many fantasy leagues on many platforms and Yahoo's has consistently been the best one year-in, year-out.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by ghshephard on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @01:48AM (#7345714)

Yahoo has an excellent Financial Portfolio / Stock Tracking Site. I go there pretty much every day to track how things are doing.

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Re:Yahoo to End Facebook, Google Sign-In on Its Web Properties by chris_wot on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @02:50AM (#7345882)

The same services that you would use had you logged in with Facebook or Google?

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