Recent changes to the Yahoo TV section of the Yahoo website drew irritated responses from users and several screeds from bloggers denouncing those alterations.
Yahoo TV website received a Flash and Ajax makeover, which established a more compelling visual environment for their users to enjoy finding their favorite TV show-related content.
Or did they?
The users may not have received the memo, especially the part that told them they now have to sign in, or sign up for a Yahoo account if they don't have one, to see the TV listings that had been available without a login through a relatively simple search form.
Changes made to the site without accounting for their users' preferences or tastes make the recent anecdotal remembrances of Yahoo TV hankered for a simpler experience. A smattering of commentary from those postings should prove educational for site publishers who would prefer not to anger their userbase:
I can't believe that you are now forcing an inconvenient signin to view localized listings! What a cheap, worthless stunt!
After trying to figure out your new tv site, I now know why your stock is falling and Google is beating you…
Why did you try to fix something that wasn't, to our minds, broken? Worse yet, why did you break it in the process?
The new site isn't just a little buggy here and there. It's not even just bad. It's Waterworld bad, it's Iraq-occupation bad, it's ‘62 Mets bad.
Unleashing a site update before an event like wondered how this update and the less than joyous response could have happened.
"Why was there no trial period so that die-hard tv.yahoo.com users could voice their opinions before being forced to use the "improved" interface?" he wrote. "Why did we manage to toss both "simple" and "useful" aside and substitute "flashy" for them?"
But Sal Taylor Kydd of Yahoo TV 
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