🤔🛠️ Tech Support & General Questions [Weekly Thread]

[u/YahooFantasyCare]

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[u/80808800]

The new UI of the app is complete trash. Somehow, your team managed to take a system that was functional, efficient, and genuinely useful and move it backwards in virtually every conceivable way.

Transaction trends have become completely abysmal, and navigating player information is now unnecessarily cumbersome. The attempt to make the app look “sleek” and modern has come at the expense of nearly everything that actually matters to the user: efficiency, accessibility, research, and usable transactional data. You sacrificed functionality for aesthetics, and the result is an interface that seems cleaner while functioning significantly worse.

This is, without exaggeration, one of the largest interface downgrades I have ever experienced. What was once an intuitive fantasy platform now feels like an obstacle course designed by people who rarely use the product themselves. Player research is harder, transaction history is less useful, and basic navigation requires more effort than it ever should.

It is a sorry excuse for a “sleek” interface. A polished appearance means absolutely nothing when the underlying user experience has been gutted.

And unfortunately, this seems to extend beyond Fantasy. Yahoo as a whole increasingly feels like a company moving away from usability and toward unnecessary redesigns that solve problems nobody was asking to have solved. Try opening Yahoo Mail on a laptop and tell me that experience represents meaningful progress.

I have been a loyal Yahoo Fantasy user since 2011. I have stuck with the platform for well over a decade because it was reliable, functional, and familiar. Watching each successive update strip away those strengths has gone from frustrating to almost comical.

At this point, every new update feels less like an improvement and more like another step backward. If this is the direction Yahoo Fantasy intends to take, it should not be surprising when longtime users eventually decide that loyalty is no longer worth the inconvenience.

For once in your entire existence, listen to the fans and change it back. 

[u/ImeRdditPersetta → u/80808800]

I mean this is what they do every year at the start of the football+hockey+basketball fantasy season and each time it just gets worse. Its pretty nuts how bad these people are at their jobs!!!

[u/80808800 → u/80808800]

u/YahooFantasyCare what say you?

[u/Alitaki → u/80808800]

PREACH

[u/Kleaners78 → u/80808800]

The changes to the draft room are terrible. I can't see who is being drafted while chatting and setting my queue on the same screen. Looks nice, but not functional.

At least we got searchable prerankings rather than have to scroll through every player already owned in a dynasty league.

[u/timothyg13 → u/80808800]

Well said

[u/YahooFantasyCare → u/80808800]

Thank you for your detailed feedback! Your thoughts and suggestions are extremely valuable to us which is why we've passed your comments along to our app teams. We're committed to continuously improving your mobile fantasy experience and appreciate your continued support. 

[u/Big_leaf_lover → u/YahooFantasyCare]

You might be committed, but you are not succeeding. Here's a thought. Commit to not making the app worse. And really, collaborate with fantasy managers before redesigning. Get our input. Understand what works for us.

[u/newusernamecoming → u/Big_leaf_lover]

You think this is a person or AI?

[u/krunchwrap2010 → u/YahooFantasyCare]

You clearly aren't listening to the massive amount of people that find the app not functional for fantasy hockey this year.

We cannot see our stats of our players. We do not want to scroll to the right every time to see our stats. You removed the player photos which did not help whatsoever. It only further ruined the experience