I really hate the redesigned Yahoo! email program. As is usual with programming changes that are arbitrarily instituted without customer/user input, they're a disaster.
The thing doesn't even properly display in my Firefox browser. I have to hover over little boxes to get a pop up that tells me what functions lie underneath. And of course they had to do away with lots of useful functions that I've come to rely on, such as the ability to edit a forwarded email. Nope, can't do that anymore, so you can forget cleaning them up before passing them on.
I don’t like it either.
I don’t want my emails looking like an instant message box.
Yahoo Groups is also a disaster. It wasn’t broke, but some asshat decided they know better than everyone else. The new design is a “charlie foxtrot”.
Gmail was great before they changed it.
For all serious uses, I employ Gmail.
Without Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo would be but pale shadows of their current inadequate selves.
Of course, if you need Snowden-level security, you should not be using any internet service. You should be using only your own stack, end-to-end encrypted. It's OK, even desirable, to use service providers. But the payloads must be utterly opaque!
Yahoo stock doing great so like she cares???
I use a very old machine and just loading the screen takes over twice as long as it did before.
Don't notice that on my wife's newer i7 quad core machine with Win 7 however, but it's really slow, flakey and buggy with my older one.
Oh well, time for a new machine anyway, support for Win XP is going to be ending fairly soon.
The changes at Yahoo really suck. I used to go there only for Sports and Finance.
They used to have the best Sports section on the Internet - easy to find scores and news about College Basketball and Football. Now it’s terrible. I rarely go there now.
I hate the new email look. I’m never sure the email is actually sent because when you hit the send button, the screen reappears with the message still on it - totally confusing. The inbox screen is now a dark blue which is hard on the eyes. They gave you an option of adding a light blue background and I took it - not a dark blue. Don’t know how to change it back.
Yeah....and it doesn’t give the library of e-mail contacts
When the women escape the kitchen it only has one outcome.
Try using "ctrl" "+" or "-" to change the text size. Maybe that will fit things better.
I hated yahoo mail so much before the redesign that I dumped it for gmail. Yahoo’s ads slowed everything down to a crawl and would sometimes freeze my browser. Gmail doesn’t do that.
The new mail doesn’t work across my various Operating Systems and I am a paying customer.
One of the dumbest marketing moves a company with majority market share can make is to mimic an inferior competitor. Coca-cola did it with its New Coke. Microsoft did it with Windows 7. And Yahoo did it with everything.
I dunno, I adapted quickly. It’s okay I guess.
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.
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?
Yes, it is terrible. It is probably NSA compliant. Better to see you with...
Maybe, like Obamacare, it was designed to fail.
Email (communications) providers... health insurance providers. Same shiite different sites. Seems like the goal is to herd the masses in one direction only, where the PTB demand and can control.
Not content to jam up the margins with targeted ads, these email sleazoids now put “sponsored” spam at the top of the inbox list. Yeah, who really pimps email addresses to spammers? Oh amen for the spam catcher spambox!!! /s It’s like the government that creates the crises for which they conveniently find solutions.