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- Matrix_Prime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12the entire TV listings on the site is now useless. I enjoyed just going to the site and see what shows were on in prime time without clicking anything, that's out the window.
- sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I totally agree the update is horrible. I used the old TV guide feature, but now its harder to navigate and there are way too many crappy show ads all over the place. You now have to login to view local TV listings. What was yahoo thinking?
- airiox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Personally I'd check tv.yahoo.com every night. But the thing is broken, dont give us a beta. give us the old simple thing that actually worked.
Switched to http://tvlistings5.zap2it.com gee it actually works... w2g yahoo - shortstack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10i kind of hate it.
i liked the old layout, as everything loaded immediately. this new one doesn't load sometimes. and i'm on a macbook pro, so its not outdated tech - JimMessenger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I agree with the author's comment, "The problem is the design placement. The most pertinent information is not close enough to the top. I have to scroll down too far from the Scrubs, Ugly Betty, and Grey’s Anatomy promos before I get to the “My TV” grid, which is the reason I would go to this site in the first place."
Aside from the terrible placement of the listings grid, the design is way too busy for my taste.
As webtech stated above, "I think it looks good but certainly could be more functional." - Moskie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Look at http://tv.yahoo.com/listings
Content dynamically loaded as you SCROLL??? That's so ***** retarded. This is some of the worst "Web 2.0" stuff I've ever seen. - misterpony, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Wow. It's awful. The layout is terrible. Finding the little tiny link to "Full TV Listings" is a pain in the ass. And when the Full Listings design totally sucks: it's long and cluttered with gratuitous "2.0"-style shading and oversized font. They completely screwed this up.
I didn't go to Yahoo's TV page to read gossip and see all this crap. It should be quick and easy to get to the listings and easy to see every channel at once for comparison and quick reading. Looks like I won't be going back. - thomasoa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There are so many things that suck about the changes at Yahoo! TV, and specifically in the Schedule interface.
(1) They no longer tell you when the episode is a rerun.
(2) Clicking on a show gives you a much abbreviated listing for the show compared to the information in the previous version. In particular, there is no cast list.
(3) Too much AJAX for the sake of AJAX. The pages load really slow.
(4) Hey, I want to look at the schedule from 8PM-11PM, but they only list 3-hour intervals starting with multiples of 3, so I can look at 6PM-9PM or 9PM-12PM. Even worse, if it is 2:45PM, they list 12:00PM to 3PM, which is completely not what I want.
(5) Yesterday, the page completely failed to render in Safari. And the AJAX stuff didn't work all the time.
(6) They no longer give you a way to find out when the next showing of a show is. The old version, if you clicked on a movie or TV show, it would list upcoming times for the shows, and this was great if you found a movie on TV that you wanted to watch, but you missed the beginning, or a Nova episode you knew they'd rerun at 4AM for Tivoing.
Basically, they completely screwed the pooch. I switched to using Yahoo! TV a few months ago. - drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The new design is *****. I've basically stopped using it because its too slow and awful. My computer doesn't need upgrading and my browser is brand new and up to date. Every other web page I surf to is fine, except the new Yahoo TV.
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Over the last two years I have been using tv.yahoo.com for my online TV listings needs. Now that yahoo has rolled out their new Bloatware 2.0 TV listings. I can no longer use this service. in its current form I can not get it work or in either Firefox or Opera. There is no way I am going to fire up IE 7.0 just to access this one site.
- elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Everyone fill out their feedback form
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/tv/cgi_feedback
Tell them how much it sucks. - interiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Wow. Try to view the Dish network full listings now... it's completely unusable. For some reason, it shows more channels now (all 9000 channels), but it will only load a portion of a webpage once you scroll to it., which makes it load much slower. Result: If you're interested in a channel in the middle, you have no idea where to scroll to, and it could take forever to find the right spot.
And as others mentioned, I've got a fast computer, but it slows my computer down for a few seconds when loading a new portion of the page. - nigeltufnel123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It sucks
- knazo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5agreed...new yahooTV is terrible. Too busy, incredibly bad layout, not functional...why is it so hard to do things "simply" simple? Yahoo should fire whom ever designed or forced this page. Nothing interesting, groundbreaking, nice or easy to navigate here.
- docjeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They take TV Guide channel off my cable lineup (moved it to digital) and now they make Yahoo completely unusable. ***** this. I want listings not flash and advert-o-bombs. Christ.
- adolfojp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used to visit the old site every day for my tv listings.
Now not only is the interface almost unusable but it does not show me any listings at all.
Thanks a lot Yahoo. - WildBil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This sucks hard and they will lose users with it.
I know they lost me.
Cox Listing now - Cwluc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh man, so there goes another site out the window due to the lack of understanding that not everyone wants crap stuff down their throat...and with the awesome connection at school it takes forever for the listings to show up..by the time I see it I'm done looking for something on TV...oh wait the best part me logging in to get my provider...What about when I'm in two places and I then need to change my provider instead of having two different bookmarks like before.
I'm with the guy who wants Google to do TV listings next. If I can't use bookmarks and see the page in a few seconds I'm out. - eclectro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It was completely unusable for me. I was totally disapponted in the changes, and had to find another site for TV listings. I really really liked how the old interface worked, though it seemed that the html had been broken for my firefox 1.5 browser for the past month. Yahoo is starting to suck in more ways than one now. I'm glad that I'm not the only one that noticed this major "downgrade." Also, I'm not going to go out and buy a new computer to view their crappy website. The thing is., I used to set everyones homepage to yahoo. Not anymore.
The question I have, if wasn't broken, why try and fix it? Is this a case of programmers having too much time on their hands?? - mrRB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Web 2.0: Resistance is futile, you will have rounded corners.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Garbage. Simply garbage.
I had my TV listings bookmarked and with the URL, I switched it to be a 4 hour block that updated to whatever time it was when I checked it. It was small, lightweight, and efficient. This is garbage and I am looking for a different tv listings site to go with now. - thomasoa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2techpimp,
The old listing pages rendered relatively quickly, but the new interface, with AJAX calls to populate the listings, seems very slow to me. I have recent browsers on all my machines, and I saw this slowness on all of them. - instinet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When will google add tv listings?
- geonet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As a dedicated couch potato I have probably spent more time on Yahoo TV than any other site in the past few years. I was really pissed when I saw that Yahoo had turned the best TV listings site into the worst. Zap2it is okay, but not nearly as good as the old Yahoo TV. Somebody should get fired.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Not only that, but you can't search within the page for a show, because it hasn't loaded the entire listing. What genius thought this up?
- loveandrockets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's really bad. I like the table with the shows listed in boxes. You click on a title, you get an HTML page about the show. Not this AJax crap. Takes a long time to load, uses a lot more resources, it sucks.
- macbth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yahoo are you reading all this
- give us an option to go back to the old format-please - emad95, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm not a fan of the new look or the interface. I've decided to move on and find something else.
- dimdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm digging because it is news, but many thanks @airiox for the link to http://tvlistings5.zap2it.com
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The makeover is a nightmare. The listings page takes forever to load (in fact the listings are built as you page down which is rediculous). It went from lightning fast loads to built-as-you-pagedown and is a hassle to get any good information compared to the way it was.
Ajax is ruining good websites.
I found Zap2It and it loads fast, its configurable and quick loading with a nice clean interface. Bye-bye YahooTV. - elpepe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I noticed this tonight. It is a major step backwards. TV listings are a simple grid and should be displayed in simple HTML!
- glitch222, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I seldom comment here but this is as good a reason as any. Yahoo!TV went from the best to the worst. Everyone here agrees that it is unusable, but what can we do? Sure we can go somewhere else but they need feedback to know that they can fix it. How about a classic view button? A low tech version for the ones who want to find a show then watch it. I guess they are in a hard place as they want you to stay on the page as long as possible to view ads and info, but we just want to see the details for Heroes and move on.
- mattjb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm another disgruntled user of Yahoo TV, the listings has gone downhill. Even if it is beta, it's no excuse for putting out an offering that is considerably worse than the previous iteration. I can't believe the management at Yahoo greenlit this, which leads me to believe there's a major level of incompetence there. They need to update their hiring guidelines.
I ended up switching to TV Guide's listings, Zap2It wasn't as intuitive as I'd like it to be. - fuzzynyanko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow. I used to use that all of the time. Now, it just stinks. The alternative, www.tv.com, is okay, but the old yahoo TV was just handy (especially compared to tolerating the TV Guide Channel).
- msgyrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I deleted my bookmark when I saw this "update". I'm not farking registering a Yahoo account just to see my local TV grid, especially with as many ads as they subject you to.
10:1 odds it gets redesigned in the next few weeks when they see a sharp decline in page hits. - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1crap on a stick
remove and wash and sanitize the crap off and keep the stick
aka tv.yahoo.com/listings - thomasoa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I forgot:
(7) If a show started before the current start of the listing (say, an 8pm movie when you are looking at 9pm-12pm,) it often does not display the show title. - instinet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1bye-bye yahooTV... going to tvlistings.aol.com
- Moskie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's something wrong with the time zone settings. From here in CA, it says the 6 o'clock news is on at 9. I've got the provider set to my local area... am I missing some other setting?
I suspected that tv.yahoo.com was getting a facelift, and I was excited at first... but now that I see it, I want the old one back. :( - 2006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yahoo7 (Australia's Yahoo website) has had a similar layout for quite a while now:
http://au.tv.yahoo.com/tv/ - geekwhite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4slow and clunky. TVGuide.com is much much better.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pathetic. Yahoo! is still completely ignoring the anyone that isn't using Microsoft Windows or Apple systems.
It looks as if they will be streaming flash, but as soon as you click the play button you are sent to a page telling you to update your Microsoft or Apple media players.
It will get a Bury as Lame setting from me. What's the redesign? Pretty pictures be moved around - who cares. Make you content accessible to all - use Flash also. - ronjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It says it is beta, but there is nowhere to leave feedback for the programmers.
- interiot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why didn't they notice that their users didn't enjoy the change?
- pillowfactory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I thought this blogger had a pretty good explanation of it's failures... http://deepthoughts.orsomethinglikethat.com/2006/12/06/goodbye-yahoo-tv-hello-tv-guide/
- FyberOptic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Not only has Yahoo failed to support Opera for years, but they've barely supported IE for months now. There were javascript errors even on their last design on certain pages. It's truly sad when a website giant has such a poor development team that they can't develop cross-platform code. It's entirely possible, they just refuse to do so. And as a result of this horrible excuse of a makeover, I've stopped using their TV listings. I'm using MSN's now.
- macbth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like that link-thanks
- greenslash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This reminds me of the yahoo email avatars - useless.
I now use excite tv http://tv.entertainment.excite.com/index.html - glitch222, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0if anyone from yahoo reads this . . . . please note the sadness. You had a functional, informative, and clean site. Now it represents all that sucks with advertising.
Do I really need ads in my face when I search for something else to watch during commercials?? - veektor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You mean, you watch Tv?
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