[camus2]

> Still, I imagine the grand plan is to make Yahoo “cool enough” that people will actually want to use a Yahoo ID consistently. We’ll see how that one goes.

For what? as a consumer,what service Yahoo does offer that would make me want to get a yahoo id?

As a developper ,Yahoo has a few interesting services but that's it. Yahoo's shopping spree is over but it did not make it more relevant.

[specialp]

Yahoo runs many services that have traffic that most start-ups here would die for. Number one finance site,number one news site, huge fantasy sports, Flickr, Delicious, significant search traffic. People on HN tend to dismiss them but we are indeed talking one of the most trafficked websites on Earth. I would say there is more value having a Yahoo ID than most other sites due to how much they offer.

[kevincrane]

It's not popular but I think Yahoo Mail is way better than a lot of people give it credit for as well.

[mattmanser]

A brief bit of googling shows Yahoo mail has similar numbers of users as Hotmail and Gmail, somewhere between 200-400 millionish, hard numbers aren't often announced.

So it's popular, though has lost it's top spot.

[kevincrane]

Oh right, I guess meant "not trendy". I know it's pretty widely-used, but it unfortunately and unfairly tends to elicit the same response as when someone tells you they use AOL for their internet.

[dhimes]

And Yahoo mail has taken over verizon mail, at least in some hubs.

[joecomotion]

Delicious left Big Purple long ago.

[frankc]

Yahoo has a good fantasy sports platform. They might be the leader there though espn may have passed them by now.

[alook]

Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Seems like they're giving people a reason to use their products, and then making a play to have an OAuth-level relationship with the users. Maybe they want visibility into how a user authorizes third-party apps (FB gets an awful lot of insight from FB connect!) or maybe they just want to solidify their user lock-in.

Either way, I can't imagine they justified the engineering work for massive redesign on seemingly not-profitable properties like Weather/Flickr without having a solid long-term plan for how to capitalize on that.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/15/yahoo-weather-android-red... [2] http://blog.flickr.net/en/2013/05/20/a-better-brighter-flick... [3] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/03/yahoo-sports-gets-ios-7-red...

[microtonal]

Under Marissa Mayer's watch, Yahoo has been investing tremendous effort in refining the UX on their web/mobile properties like Yahoo Weather [1], Flickr [2], and Yahoo Sports [3].

Actually, the recent changes made me quit Flickr. It's now an ugly mixture of new and old (especially if you use the organiser, etc.) and when you are logged in (which is likely when you use Flickr) you get an unremovable, ugly, purple Yahoo bar.

I was a paying user since 2009. Now Smugmug gets my (and my wife's) money.

[okasaki]

The Flickr redesign has been the worst UI change I've ever seen on the web. I've been on Flickr since 2007 and really enjoyed its interface - much like reddit (pre- custom subreddit styles) it was clean and fast. Now it's ugly, confusing and very sluggish.

[mark_l_watson]

I really like the new Flickr, but I usually just use photo stream and sets.

[_ea1k]

FWIW, I have started to avoid Yahoo Sports since the redesign. The site is much slower and more difficult to navigate than it was before.

[PakG1]

This is the main reason why I have my Yahoo ID. I've been involved in many fantasy leagues on many platforms and Yahoo's has consistently been the best one year-in, year-out.

[ghshephard]

Yahoo has an excellent Financial Portfolio / Stock Tracking Site. I go there pretty much every day to track how things are doing.

[chris_wot]

The same services that you would use had you logged in with Facebook or Google?