My main experience with Yahoo! Answers is that it's more of a trolling platform than anything else. The questions are trolls, and the answers are trolls.
Nevertheless, I'm going to miss it. The trolling was fun to read, at least.
That is worrisome. If I get my wife's baby's baby pregnant (please read the linked post before commenting!), in the case that the little one needs a C-section, will that harm her mother, grandma, or my wife?
Do you have any recommendations on how to find more content in this genre (dysfunctional humor / best of dumbest internet content)? It's hard to come up with search terms that would lead me to find this kind of video.
YA has little value in providing actual answers, but it's a great source of entertainment and possibly even illumination into how a certain subset of the population think.
Yahoo Japan was a JV between Yahoo and SoftBank. It’s pretty much a huge if not the biggest platform in Japan because of this. Yahoo Japan is not the same as yahoo globally.
Japan it's basically it's own little world. Their local version of Yahoo is not only still very popular, but it looks like it's stuck in the early '00s for some inexplicable reason.
It's not Japan's web design that confuses me, it's the rest of the world. Since the late '00s it seems like removing half of your content and replacing it with larger fonts, huge margins and just blank space became the cool thing to do.
Someone somewhere said of content "let it breathe" and that got repeated until breathing content became a cargo cult. That cargo cult summoned the demons of flat design. They brought with them Metro, Material Design, Bootstrap 3, and iOS 7.
Content started breathing heavily, fonts got almost too skinny to read, and it's almost impossible to tell if text a button.
Makes sense to me. It looks cleaner, it's easier to read, and it's less confusing. If you have a ton of things, it gets confusing and overwhelming. Keep it simple. And stop with the tiny text damn it, there is no reason for it to be tiny. cough hackernews cough
Because most people accessed the internet on their clamshell phones and not through a PC/laptop. So most websites were designed to be mostly text and easily browsed from clamshell-phone internet browsers. Now that smartphones have become ubiquitous more sites are finally being designed to look nice on smartphones - sometimes still at the consequence of desktop use. It took a few years after the iPhone release (aka: for it to get widespread market adoption) for JP websites to start "catching up" with Western web design.
There are some other reasons too - but I'd wager the above is the #1 reason and others are more of an "in addition to that" type thing.
Japan gets a rep for being technologically forward thinking, but given their heavy use of faxes and paper records in banking and government, they seem to have shown they are very slow to move forward in broad ways.
Yahoo! JAPAN is most familiar website brand for older people, but not very well for younger people. Maybe they use apps like Twitter, Instagram, and LINE rather than websites. I think that's why their design isn't refined.
Is that the experience of someone who actively used it for a period of time or of someone who just heard of it offhandedly. The latter would clearly only hear of the memes and trolling, since those bubble out much more than helpful answers.
Nevertheless, I'm going to miss it. The trolling was fun to read, at least.