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

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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