Just have a quick look at the board and you’ll quickly find more negative respons than otherwise. And many people are thinking (if not already done so) of moving away from MyYahoo to use other front pages.

I myself have started setting up my iGoogle with the same contents I had for MyYahoo. If nothing happens then it will be goodbye MyYahoo for me too.

Yeah agree the new MyYahoo! is a little over the top. Its a little like mobile phones today – loads of people only want to call someone – and don’t need a all sining dancing photo taking music box.

With closing a service – I can only agree up to some extent. I think its a good idea to concentrate on core stuff and keep focused. I have all respect for Google closing down Answers – cause it didn’t really work for them.

Users will be confused and angry – but 1. we can try to make a move for them as seamlessly as possible and 2. sometimes loved things just go away – reminds me of The Wonder Years – I loved that show and was pretty upset when it was gone.

But, then, I was also a loyal Yahoo!360 fan.

Given the scale of web-services, a mere million contented users can mean a service is deemed a failure – in need or repair or disposal. Change is demanded, rewarded, and then… two or three hundred thousand users are left angry or confused over what happened when (for them) everything was going so well.

Improving services by shutting them down (is that like destroying a village in order to save it?) or dramatically changing them is sensible in a “big company – big picture” kind of way, but it’s hard on users.