Why has Yahoo! chess lost so much popularity, it's now #17 of top 20?

Question

It's been #17 for over a month and not coming back to #2 (used to be #2).

Answer 1

Yahoo has done a poor job of making it easy for people to play chess there.  How many questions have you seen in this category by people asking how to clear their cache so they can play chess on Yahoo.  When nobody gives them a working answer you are just forced to quit going to the site.  Also there were lots of jerks with robots on the Yahoo site.  I know for a fact that this happened to me, because I suspected this was the case and brought out an earlier version of Chessmaster to play against him.  His robot smoked Chessmaster 3000 and his rating would have suggested otherwise especially with the speed and precision in which he moved his pieces.

Answer 2

The players suck and it's a poorly-designed site. There are better places to choose.

Answer 3

Plus there's all that stupid booting you from tables c**p (that's why I left).

Answer 4

Yahoo! Chess has become troublesome for people to sign onto.. so most have stopped playing.. or moved on to another site.

Answer 5

I would say its all the new games coming out.I love chess personaly and even have a corrispondace match going on with a gentleman in russia