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Mod42 – YES!!! Thanks! Now I am reconciled to eveything. That link solves all my significant issues; that’s what I’m going to use. Thank you all!
Mod99, thanks for that tip regarding seeing all the articles chronoligically. A bit strange to have all the articles in full detail, takes up alot of space, alot of scrolling, takes getting used to but I think I DO prefer it to the current new YW. Bottom line, I still have what I want – everything in order with the ability to see what I want and not miss anything. (These are comments, not complaints.) the old is still better but if I can’t have that, this may be a good compromise. Thanks!
To YW editor – thanks for the response, but I NEVER missed a story this way before. And from what I see, it will be happening alot now.
I generally check your site a dozen (or more) times a day. Here and there, there are tmes when i don’t have access for a day or two at a time. As was obvious to you, that happened now between friday midday and sunday morning, so i missed when you say this story would have been staring me in the face.
But in the good old days, I STILL wouldn’t have missed it.
What about my suggestion, that one of the categories should be an everything mixed category like in the past? Then maybe you can make everyone happy? 🙂
Here’s a case in point of exactly what I was talking about his morning. My husband called and said “did you hear about the whiskey?” NOw, whenever my husband calls in and says “did you hear?” my ansewr in the past has always been “Yes, I saw it on Yeshiva World.” Now, my answer was “no”. He proceeded to tell me about this new realization that one of the major distillers is Jewish and alot of whiskey etc is chometz she’ovar uluv hapesach. He said “it’s got to be on yeshiva world – i heard all the other frum sites have the story prominently, with a list. So i looked. once i looked, i found it, down on the bottom with the kashrus alerts that you’ll never see unless you scroll to the very very bottom. In the old days, a breaking story was seen – period. didn’t matter what category or heading it belonged to….PLEASE make some changes….
I delayed responding immediately because I tend not to like change and figured it would be more fair to give it a chance. I really, really don’t like the new layout. I agree with many of the problems other people are raising.
To me, the two most serious are:
the way many of the headlines fr anything besides for the top two stories are truncated, (ditto the beginning of the article) such that I can’t really figure out what it is about. You may feel that then we are more likely to click into it and see (curiousity?) – I can only speak for myself – I just turn away and say forget it, I can’t waste time on this site the way it is now. There’s so much to do, so little time and with it all, I used to read so much on yeshiva world – because I could see so much of interest to me. But it’s not worth having to click into every story to see if it is or is not of interest to me. I will first forget the whole thing. So far, I keep checking in to see if you’ve made changes based on the comments, but I don’t know how much longer I can keep it up.
Then there’s the issue of the separate categories, which is nice for people who have only specific interests. But what if you have no specific interests or very wide ranging interests. Why do yo have to scan every single one of ten different headings? Isn’t it obvious that for people who want to keep on top of everything, there should also be a section where everything is posted sequentially without regard to topic, much like the old version? This doesn’t have to be instead of your new categories – just in addition. Why can’t a story show up both places? It would be soo much better!
I’ve loved your site until nw, had no problem with your last redesign, but please bring back some more of the old. This is so much more just like the other frum jewish news sites now….