The Yahoo! Answers team answers your questions about the new homepage & search

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Over the past few weeks we’ve made several exciting new changes to the overall Answers experience including changes to the look and feel of the site, as well as a new search experience  for Yahoo! Answers.

While these changes have taken place, many of you have had questions about where we have relocated your favorite features, and what changes lie ahead. Below you’ll find some of the most commonly asked questions and their answers.

Q: Previously, I could click on “My Profile” to go straight to my profile page. This link is gone—how do I get to this page now?

A: To easily access your profile page, you can either click on your name next to the “Hello” message, or, click on the “My Activity” tab to jump straight to your profile.

Q: Below my name there’s now an “invite your friends” link—what does this do?”

A:   Clicking on the “Invite your friends” link allows you to easily invite any of your friends to join you on Yahoo! Answers.  From this page, you can easily enter in the email addresses of your family and friend and encourage them to join you on Answers—that way if you’ve recently asked a question on Answers and think your Aunt Sally may know the Answer but know she’s not on Answers, you can easily get her on board, and, get her to answer your question!

Please note that if you’re a Level 1 member, instead of seeing “invite your friends” you’ll instead see a link reading, “What are points and levels?,” encouraging you to learn more about Answers. For members who are level 2 and higher, you’ll be seeing this link added in under the “About” tab in the near future.

Q: How do I see my suggested questions?

A: If you have suggested questions, they’ll show up on your homepage as they did before. Currently, we don’t have a message in place that tells you “there are no suggested questions available at this time” but we’re looking to add this back in the near future.

Q: How do I see my recent activity details?

A: To see your recent activity details, just click on the “My Activity” tab—from here, you can see your activity summary, your activity details, as well as your questions, answers, starred questions and your watchlist.

Also from this page, you can easily click on the “Edit My Preferences” link to edit the content found within your Answers profile, or, if you’re elsewhere on the Answers site, just hover back on the “My Activity” tab and click on the “Edit My Preferences” link to be taken to the same edit screen.

Q: Now that you’ve changed the look and feel of Answers, what’s next?

A: We always have a few tricks up our sleeve, so be on the lookout for new things heading your way. In the meantime, we still love hearing your thoughts about the new homepage and the changes to search, so please keep the constructive feedback coming!

If you have additional “how-to” questions about the new homepage or search, or, just want to tell us what you think, please leave a comment below or stop by the Suggestion Board!

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  1. I have had some time to get use to the new look
    when someone asks about levels points instead of
    using the link to this
    I would say please click on the about tab
    scroll down the click on points
    Also I got this printed for reference the day it came out
    I still use links not as many

    Comment posted on March 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm by blue_cat_tours
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    Comment posted on March 24th, 2010 at 5:14 pm by julio
  3. so far, i don’t like it. i have NEVER had so much trouble posting answers – all day today, i have to hit “refresh” and “submit” a dozen or more times for each answer because i keep getting the “unavailable” screen. if i cannot answer because of server overload (or some other, let’s admit it, sorry excuse), then the “answer” button should be greyed out or some other notification given. i put a lot of time and thought into my answers – on a public computer, yet! – and it drives me MENTAL when it doesn’t go through over and over again.

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  5. I have had 3 days of Yahoo Answers unavailable when I either try to submit an answer or question. Really frustrates me as I can not remember everything I write when it is a big answer. Hope it works again soon as I am getting really annoyed with it am about to stop using it for awhile, but doubt that will make a difference. Ugh.

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