Comments on: Fixing the Yahoo News Toggle

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:10:13 +0000

Thanks a lot for this tip, I’m sure many others are grateful too :) What could possibly prompt Yahoo to implement such a feature is entirely beyond my comprehension. I find the button to be a nuisance, somewhat comparable to a toddler who throws a fit and sh*ts his diaper everytime mommy walks into the room. A few times I have actually decided to close the page instead of clicking the infernal button to read the rest of the story :p I agree that the new Yahoo layout is an overall improvement though, it’s not like Myspace or Youtube where updates are typically dreaded by users.

By: fred

fred — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:02:24 +0000

Thanks for that fix, Dan! I’ve bumped your comment.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:33:34 +0000

Looks like Yahoo lets you toggle this off yourself, with a cookie. From Yahoo’s own help page: At the bottom of the page is an option to turn OFF expand/collapse. If you turn this off, you will not see the “Read Full Article” button anymore and will see only single, open pages.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/news/expandpage.html

By: fred

fred — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:58:28 +0000

Looks like Yahoo has changed the Javascript, so this will no longer work. I’ll see if I can fix it.

By: andy

andy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:35:03 +0000

I believe yahoo butchered the news site. The font is 6 points too big, there are far too many gaps between the stories making them difficult to read.. and yes, the read full article button..

By: fred

fred — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:23 +0000

Yeah, it is especially annoying on an iphone. It takes forever to load. I don’t know what Yahoo was thinking, it really ruins a nice redesign.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:51:18 +0000

thanks for the tip, having to click for the full story was really annoying. I hope someone writes a greasemonkey script or yahoo comes to its senses and stops making us do this!