The wildly popular Yahoo Answers has gotten a bit more than a facelift. According to the Yahoo Answers blog, the revamp is pretty intense and in depth.
The homepage and navigation have been entirely redone. On top of the the Answers banner, there are four new, navigation tabs: Home, Browse Categories, My Activity, and About. These tabs and the green Answers banner stay up constantly, so reaching important parts of the site is a snap.
Home brings you to a standard screen from which you have several choices. The link to the Answers Blog is now on the right hand side, as well as the most recent questions. You can also see the Best of Answers rotating module. My activity lets you go directly to your Answers profile and view your network/ your network activity or edit your preferences. About allows you to get a refresher on Answers and the Community Guidelines, and view the leaderboard, Suggestion Board, and Answers Blog.
Browse categories has been greatly updated. Previously all of the categories were permanently displayed on the left hand column on the homepage. Now they can be accessed from the top hide-away menu and you can browse the category tab to reach a page where you may view all of the questions that are open, resolved or in voting.
The Yahoo blog states:
“Over the past few years we’ve heard from quite a few of you that you love the Answers green but it’s just a little too green. So we’ve taken your feedback to heart and have toned down the green just a bit and have replaced the white background with a light blue that is a little easier on the eyes. Our smilies have also received a facelift and look a bit more polished throughout the site.
Additionally, you’ll notice that the page feels a bit wider—one thing we heard from you when we introduced the new category pages several months back was that you liked the extra space. This extra space allows us to display even more questions on the homepage, making it easier for you to jump right in.”
In addition, some backend bug fixes are included in the update as well as feature requests such as updating the category leaderboards daily instead of weekly.
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