Why YAHOO ANSWER has changed the layout? Before it was organised better, by categories.?

[corncrake]

I agree with you, it was far clearer before but i guess it's all geared towards how it looks rather than user satisfaction. You can still (if you want to) select the catagories but then you have to filter out between english and uk/ireland answers only whereas before you didn't need to do anything which puts you off. I've started to visit less after the update because as a whole i understand the site in general needed an update something worked perfectly fine and should have been left.

Market forces i guess as you only have to look at google's update of youtube/gmail etc to see yahoo are not alone in stuffing up perfectly good systems in the way of so called "progress".