Yahoo Groups' new interface...

[Guest guest]

I know I'm not the only one who's a bit thrown off by the new user

interface on Yahoo Groups' web site. It *looks* somewhat cleaner, but

looks aren't everything.

First of all, they've set the default monospaced font, used for

reading plain-text posts, to Courier New. *Courier New*... what an

ugly font, in my opinion. I much prefer Andale Mono or Bitstream Vera

Sans Mono. I ought to edit my userContent.css file for Firefox to

enforce my font preferences at Yahoo Groups...

But even beyond the font, there's one really irritating thing about

the interface. It's built backwards from what would be logical.

Reverse chronological order makes some degree of sense for a weblog,

where posts are generally independent of one another, but for a

mailing list where dialogue is the norm, chronological order makes

more sense. Not only that, the posts are still numbered in

chronological order, so the definitions of 'next post' and 'previous

post' are the opposite of what would be logical!

Seriously... did they get *anyone* to beta-test this design before

rolling it out? I doubt it.

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Cody B. / " codeman38 "

cody@...

http://www.zone38.net/