yahoo tv screws up. badly.

Merrystar and I are both relatively content Yahoo! partisans; Merrystar even more so than me, I think. Which makes this post that much harder to write.

Yahoo! really fucked up, and badly. They released a new version of their TV listings pages - one of the only pages I could be reliably counted upon to hit, night after night - that not only gives worse performance than the old version, it doesn’t work in Safari.

Or Firefox.

Whaaaa?

No, seriously. Let me show you. This is what it looks like in Safari:

tv.yahoo.com home page Hosted on Zooomr

tv.yahoo.com listings page (safari) Hosted on Zooomr

And this is Firefox:

tv.yahoo.com listings (firefox) Hosted on Zooomr

By the way, the performance in Firefox is absolutely terrible. In the time it’s taken to write this post, I still haven’t gotten the new page to load.

I rarely call a site redesign absolute shit, but I think this might qualify. This is absolute shit. Did they not test it? What the hell were their QA people thinking?

Yahoo!: If you are reading this, please bring back the old TV listing. Please, please, please. Call this a beta, give us a link to the old stuff that actually worked. Otherwise, we’re switching to Google. Or TV Guide. Or anyone else.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Brett

(Please feel free to give the Yahoo! TV team a piece of your mind. They say they’re listening.)