The above bears repeating.
Posted on 10/15/2013 12:39:02 AM PDT by Windflier
Yahoo Mail users are furious after the company debuted a major resign of the popular email service that eliminated many features and, some claim, left it looking like a knock off of competitor Gmail.
Observers say the 'beautiful' new look of Yahoo Mail is a product of new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer - and it has backfired.
The mail service's 275million users were 'surprised' on October 8 with the redesign and tens of thousands have complained about glitches and reduced functionality. Many simply don't like the look and feel of the new product.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We have very high speed FIOS, but Yahoo mail is Veeeerrrrryyyyy SLOW, very slow on composition of new emails, screws up opening of emails, and gives annoying ads to boot.
Going back to Outlook. Pure email.
The employees at these companies (Yahoo, Google, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, ebay, etc.) have to keep writing themselves a job. CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE.
Customer "wants" be damned. And yes, they often break functionality for various browsers (Opera for instance).
Customers are over a barrel since their options are "give up (and 'retire' from the service)", "change to a competing 'free' service" (that will do the same to them), or "accept it".
Bingo! They are basically saying "To hell with the customer." They are getting more web traffic for now, but they will end up losing customers in the long run. If I owned Yahoo stock, I would consider unloading it right now.
I dunno, I adapted quickly. It’s okay I guess.
The above bears repeating.
All the easier to spy on you!
I have had a Yahoo mail account for years. Suddenly, I was no longer able to sign in. I use a 3rd party mail reader and it was still accessing to account. Many others had similar problems accessing their original account.
YahooMail directed me to enter a new account name and password. The result was a NEW email account. That was NOT what I wanted — I had several subdirectories of archived emails and I wanted to recover some of them.
The 3rd party mail reader continued accessing the ‘original’ account. Finally, last week, I tried again to access the old account through my browser, and it worked — and had the older interface. I guess Yahoo got a lot of complaints from users who could not access their old accounts.
Yahoo and my ISP email have changed their interfaces several times over the years. Each attempt is atrocious. Why can’t these places leave things alone? Newer is NOT always better.
I have 2 accounts one free one I pay for. I cannot access both like in the past .Talked to yahoo , they said functionality was still there .It is if you go back and keep trying 10 times or more .I need to send myself emails to load up the account so it will open. Still a turkey shoot . Old email was never a problem .maybe someone at yahoo will read this and do a fix.
Much of the time, I use my Yahoo! Mail and Gmail via some other proxy (such as the Mail app on my iPhone or Mac), and rarely use either website, though I do sometimes when accessing from my “other” computer, a Linux box, since I’ve never gotten the mail client (Evolution) to work right with either of them. [To be fair, it’s an old box running an outdated version of Fedora - core 14 - because it lacks the hardware for anything more recent.]
Frankly, I’m considering weaning myself off of both anyway, if I can find a reliable mail provider that’s not going to strip-mine my messages for advertisers (or more nefarious use) for my real personal email, leaving the others as basically throwaway accounts/spam-catchers. Any suggestions?
Seriously? The 'send' button is now at the bottom of the composition window and all of the useful tabs are now gone (or moved). Not only that, you can't edit any of the content of forwarded emails like before.
That's a real problem when you're sharing customer emails between office personnel, and then want to reply to a client without them seeing all of the office traffic.
Attachments now also show up at the bottom of the page, along with the editor controls. That's a pain in the azz to work if you're navigating a long email because the reply window is still on top.
Then there's the whole grouping feature that users are complaining about. For some reason, the program now groups all of the replies on a particular email into a thread instead of treating them like separate communications. If you want to pick out one particular email from that 'thread' to send elsewhere, good luck. You can't even copy and paste it into a new email anymore.
The list of downgrades are too numerous for me to go over in one reply. It's just frustrating as hell, and a real issue for folks who use this program for business.
I must have read a hundred complaints at the feedback page where users stated that the new Yahoo layout mimics the Gmail layout. The complaint is, "If we wanted the stupid Gmail layout, we wouldn't be here!"
What's blowing my mind, is that this has blown up bigger than any screw up in their history, and a week later, Yahoo hasn't done a thing to address it. There must be ten thousand angry comments about it on their feedback page -- and yet, nothing.
If Yahoo doesn't give its users the option to switch back to the previous version soon, I might have to migrate back to Mozilla Thunderbird.
This 'new and improved' version of their email program is anything but. It's a colossal fail and needs to be corrected immediately.
That's one of the chief complaints of Yahoo mail users. They seem to be changing the product solely for the purpose of changing it - each time, undoing some feature or function that users like and depend on.
This time, they've gone and changed nearly everything about how the program operates. It's essentially a completely different product, and not one that is better in any way. It's a major downgrade, and their customers are furious about it.
Hey, at least John Rob was responsive to the complaints of the FR community. He’s got a great layout now that nearly everyone loves, and he’s not forcing tweaks and changes to it down our throats every few months.
It's been a number of years now, but I used to love Mozilla's Thunderbird email program. I'm considering going back to that if Yahoo doesn't get their chit together in the next couple of weeks.
I’m seriously frustrated and may have to start having my email forwarded. The majority of the time I close an email, I have a blank screen for my inbox. If I open an attachment, I get stuck there and have to reload the program. I loved the tabs. I could use them for reference easily when writing emails, have important ones readily available or ones I still needed to be reminded to respond to. I absolutely hate it now. Excite.com lost me as an email user when they changed their program many years ago and made it, too, nothing but one frustration after another. I miss the days of Eudora and not having to use Pine anymore. Now that was a sweet email change.
I should have phrased my question better - it’s not the email client that concerns me, I’m looking for suggestions for a back-end service that plays nice with IMAP/SMTP so I can have the convenience of a webmail account without having to deal with their websites, and preferably one that doesn’t treat my email as a corporate data-mining exercise. (Short of end-to-end encryption, I don’t expect to avoid the feds data-mining my email.)
I had gotten accustomed to the way I could follow a thread (they ALL were displayed in one page, if I remember correctly) and one day, the threads refreshed only themselves
WHAT!!??
How COULD you ??!!??
It took about a day or two, but he DID do it once before (that I know of)
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