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Yahoo's fantasy football was super popular, why was no effort put in to make a competing product to Draft King?

Tumblr acquisition was not a good one. It was too web oriented and users were moving more to mobile.

It takes a long time to reverse momentum, and to try a lot of things.

I work on Daily Fantasy at Yahoo and would just like to point out that we do compete with DK/Fanduel :) https://yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

Daily fantasy has very annoying pop up on Yahoo! Sports. Also, I guess daily fantasy product resulted in killing of NCAAF and NFL picks against Yahoo! Experts and Yahoo! Users. The Picks link goes to message "something went wrong, we are working on it" page now for several weeks. Instead it Should be 404 and Picks link removed.

don't know why this is broken, but I'll file a bug. thank you! One of these days, I'm going to run a bot that crawls all pages on yahoo.com and reports non-200 responses...

Or let users help you identify such pages. Instead of showing a vague message that indicates temporary failure due to time out, show the 404 with option to report the broken link.

I miss picks because that's how I kept track performance of results from my own algos and compare with supposedly experts and crowds.

Why write a bot? Doesn't yapache log such events? Just run a Hadoop job on the error logs.

I'd run it across the entire site. Sure, we do have logs, but it's not easy to access them for all *.yahoo.com. Logs from each property are ingested into different places. The infrastructure is way more complex than it should be making bare-minimum monitoring like alerts on non-200 responses on all properties difficult to maintain.

Shouldn't the yahoo.com servers already log when they return error responses? :)

Each property has their logs ingested, indexed, and archived differently. I only have access to my little arm of the company infrastructure. Logs should be monitored properly by the responsible owners of each property (or in a more sensible way), but unfortunately this is not the case... :)

oops, in my defense, I have never seen that product till now. Draft king throw their ads everywhere.

Edited.

It looks like the parent comment removed it. It would be polite to edit yours as well.

Of course. I was genuinely curious.

https://sports.yahoo.com/dailyfantasy/

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