A survey reveals that the majority of Y!A users dislike the new interface and want all or part of the old one back.

This is the survey link: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20141002133256AA9eORN

It emerged that the main culprits (and the ones worthy of prioritary consideration) are:

- Numbered navigation replaced with "infinite scrolling".
- Not being able to choose a category before submitting a question.
- Cartoon avatars replace by "white on gray" avatars.
- Being sent to the beginning of the list of questions after submitting an answer.

I'd like to know if you already made a research and if yes why you didn't act on them, otherwise, I'd be glad if you considered to soothe users navigation experience (especially that "inifinite scroll").

1. Allowing all level 7's to change any question into any category is nonsensical and is encouraging abuse on the site

2. There is not enough action on spamming and trolling on Yahoo Answers. The entire site is now a trolling playground.

3. Not allowing users to delete any of their content whenever they want is unreasonable.

4. The anonymous feature is only encouraging further trolling

5. Not allowing users to choose their category before posting is not user-friendly or efficient whatsoever. Its causing a lot of questions to be posted in incorrect categories

6. Too many questions not posting in the live feed

7. The overall design looks over crowded and squashed

8. Answers should always be ordered in date and time order. And no answer should ever be hidden unless it has been reported for a breach of the CGL

9. The new Yahoo Answers advanced search (or lack there of), is no where near as efficient as the previous system under the green skin design. Useless

10. Comments per day is too limited and they need email notifications so users know they have received them.

11. Email notifications on individual questions needs to be returned. We don't want notifications for all questions, but only certain ones. Taking that feature away was poor judgment

12. MySpace category? Will you just retitle that to Twitter already. MySpace is dead and nobody cares about it.

13. You need to make it way worth users while to climb up the levels. If needs be create an 8th level with unlimited posting privileges. You should be encouraging users to post more not less. Yahoo receives a revenue from ad sense. Your current limitations are costing you a loss of money.

To limit abuse of this, you could not only require users to have an extremely large point amount to reach Level 8, you could also make it a requirement that they also must have an 80% or higher rank for Best Answers. And if you really want to limit abuse of this Level 8, you could also have the requirement of the user not having any reported content in the past year (reinstated content through appeals would be an exception). There are really knowledgeable users on this site, and they should be awarded for it in some manner. Creates a good atmosphere an incentive to post better content. I would also suggest that should you introduce a special Level 8, that all level 8's should be given a special "Knowledge Master" badge around their profile pic; visible on posts and Q&A profile.

14. Most websites these days offer a customer service assistance through a live PM system. This is something Google, Amazon, Netflix etc all over. Yahoo should do they same for a more proper way to deal with issues or concerns (especially technical difficulties).

15. Start advertising new changes on Yahoo Answers again. I have not seen any such advertisement in over a year

On many occasions I see questions where the asker has added some extra detail, but not by updating/editing their question. Instead, the asker has submitted an answer to the question to add the additional information.

There are two problems with this:

1) It is not immediately obvious that the extra detail has come from the same person that asked the question.

2) As the answers are displayed in different orders depending upon when they were submitted and what thumbs up and thumbs down they have received, the extra information can appear completely out of context.

I propose that Yahoo modify the Answers system to prevent askers from adding extra information as an answer. They should only be allowed to update/edit their question to provide the extra information.

ALL English-speaking questions are now lumped together, which is a major inconvenience for those of us who are using categories that tend to be country-specific such as Politics, Law & Ethics, Law Enforcement & Police, Current Events, and so many others.

Not only has Yahoo removed the filter, but they removed the individual flags that used to be under people's questions when they asked a question which clearly denoted which Yahoo site they were using. Why?

Now we have so many well-meaning people giving completely irrelevant and unhelpful answers on certain topics such as law because they're from another country.

Surely Yahoo should know this sort of thing is driving people away?

I hope they fix this ASAP.