Companies keep changing their web sites in the interest of “improvements”, but they more often make them more complicated and user-unfriendly.
I’ve been using Yahoo! Finance for years to get daily quotes for a small list of stocks. I made the request from a very obvious text block on the home page. Then either Firefox or Yahoo! Finance stopped allowing drag and drop, a very long-standing feature of the Macintosh. Then Yahoo! Finance moved the quote text block somewhere else. All in the name of improved interface for the users.
Boy! I never did make it through all the user complaints about the changes. I gave up on Yahoo! Finance and used TD Ameritrade instead.
Even with Ameritrade and its constantly changing home page it took me awhile to figure out how to consistently get the quotes I wanted.
But Ameritrade’s news page is a humble-jumble of hidden information
Where are the numbers in
Net Investment Income
Net Realized ST Cap Gains
Net Realized LT Cap Gains
Return of Capital or Other Capital Source
They are off the screen and can only be gotten by copying the area and pasting into a text document. Even then, the lines are all a humble-jumble.
Google’s Blogger has also been “re-designed” by making text alignment non-workable. I think I’ve sent feedback twice on this, but I guess Google is too busy on more “beautiful improvements”.
Even that great promoter of user-friendliness gives great features and takes away great features. Once upon a time Apple worked very hard on ease of use. Now they seem more concerned with “beautiful” document and spreadsheets. I’m sorry I don’t want charts with bubble points; I want a chart with connected dots.
