I just use a direct link to news sections I'm interested in so I don't have to see it.

However, HuffPo's homepage is covered with way too much celebrity rot and related stupidity.

Not recently. It's been shitty for years.

Yahoo has always been shitty.

Every change they make is a change for the worse.

Their email system has gotten much worse, forcing you to click through unnecessary screens so they can show you more ads.

Yahoo Finance, in particular, is getting less and less usable. The internet was a great equalizing device in terms of investment information, giving the home investor access to nearly as much current data as the Wall Street guys. I have watched, over the last ten years, as the quality of that information has declined, become less available, and more difficult to access.

I had better access to investment data in 2005 than I do today.

i use it mostly for junk mail that i don't want sent to my real addy. serves a purpose, i guess

Why they have insisted on staying afloat and providing a subpar service is beyond me.

It used to be a pretty good news portal. But that was a few years ago.

Used Mindspring many years ago. Really miss it.