A Categorical Change
Over the last few days, we’ve been rolling out a new design to the category pages that should help you find the questions you care about more quickly. Starting today, these changes will be a permanent feature in your Answers experience.
Here are some of the changes that we have made:
• Easier Category Navigation: We’ve moved the list of categories and subcategories to the top of the page instead of listing down the left-hand side. This should make it easier for you to move to a different category without needing to scroll down the page.
• More Space on the Page: Just like we did with the question page last year, we wanted to offer you more space in the category page by moving to a wider page design which is optimized for a higher screen resolution.
• More Prominent Leaderboard: Who doesn’t want to be famous? The right-hand side of the page now lists the top 10 answerers for the category or subcategory you are browsing. We wanted to give more prominence not only to the category leader, but to rest of the top contributing answerers as well. We also heard from you guys that when a category was being sponsored you still wanted to be able to see how you were doing in that category’s Leaderboards. The new category design allows this.
• More Prominent Question List: You visit the category page to look for questions to answer, right? We’ve made the question list wider and more visible to help youyou’re your answers in there faster.
• Sort by “Most Popular” Questions: We’ve added a “most popular” sort filter on the sidebar so you can see what the community is most interested in with just one click.
• Sticky Question Tabs : Open, resolved, and in voting tabs are now “sticky,” meaning that as you move between categories, your tab choice will persist for the session even as you vote for questions in different categories.
We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for you to use and participate in Answers, and we hope these changes continue to help you find the questions that may be most interesting to you.
As always (but especially when we change stuff on Answers) we would love to know what you think. So why don’t you check out the new category page and leave us a comment with your feedback?
Yahoo! Answers Canada Team
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This sucks I like the old yahoo answers better.
this is not a good blogspot
Old one was better.
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How many times must we say this…FIX what you have BEFORE adding/changing NEW THINGS.
{shaking head}
SO glad I am no longer paying for your crappy service.
Old was a better.
love it. After a while, hopefully others will enjoy it too… It is easier to find what you are looking for.
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I should be used to this change of the categories
ans where they are.
I have had occasions I was looking for them on the side
Other than that I find the categories very well
and they are easier
Just a question are you doing away with the leaderboard because the top ten answerers are on the right?
If you spent as much time ferretting out trolls and other cheats as you do “designing” new page formats, YA would be a better place. Hey, here’s an idea………… get rid of the points system, and you get rid of cheats!
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