New Yahoo Mail GUI: Love or Hate?
niceguy1966
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I logged on to Yahoo Mail this morning and it's been updated.
I was greeted by a pop-up showing me they had added themes (I tried a few, and they all made the text harder to read, so I decided against having one).
After using it for a few minutes, I realised "tabs" are gone. You used to be able to have your inbox, search results and multiple messages open in separate tabs so it was easy to switch between them. I don't see the removal of tabs as an improvement!
Are there any new positive features I've missed? Or is this a style over substance refresh that has made Yahoo Mail worse?
I was greeted by a pop-up showing me they had added themes (I tried a few, and they all made the text harder to read, so I decided against having one).
After using it for a few minutes, I realised "tabs" are gone. You used to be able to have your inbox, search results and multiple messages open in separate tabs so it was easy to switch between them. I don't see the removal of tabs as an improvement!
Are there any new positive features I've missed? Or is this a style over substance refresh that has made Yahoo Mail worse?
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Why do they keep trying to change things?
I'll take a peek in a minute but surely it can't be as bad as the Yahoo! Groups revamp?
The previous incarnation (ie. until yesterday) introduced some unwanted features, I particularly disliked that when I moved/deleted the message I was viewing after it had been scrolled up, the next message displayed scrolled so I had to scroll back down to view the start.
The default is the wrong way around for me.
i was going to get rid of Yahoo when they got rid of classic mail, but i don't want any one to have the email address, so i have got a couple of news letters still going to that account and will log in every week at least just to keep it going.
I had to go back to Basic to see the contents of the folders.
If I click on the folder icon and wait a couple of seconds, the list of folders appears.
I hope that works for you too!
I get the list of folders but can't open any of them
To open the folders I have to go into Settings, Viewing email and switch to using Mail Version Basic.
I'm using Chrome. Which browser are you using?
I'd recommend Chrome or Firefox for most things.
I use Internet Explorer 8 (or it might be 9...).
I have found how to open the Folders. Use Settings; Viewing emails and un-tick Enable Conversations. Problem solved!
I signed out and signed in again, but oh no it was really happening.
What do I think? It's blinkin' awful.
For a start, it seems all emails to and from the same person are batched together. So you get the sent emails in the same folder as the inbox emails.
And when you've read a message, it takes its place in with all the other emails from that person, and you have to scroll up a new message until you find it.
A nightmare. And it looks horrific.
I cannot understand why they don't stick to Yahoo Mail Classic. The best ever email format.
And there is no option to go back to that either.
A person got feel comfortable using a UI, if you get too much bling and other crap it not only slows things down, it just makes using the product a pain.
The problem with Yahoo, Microsoft and even google to a lesser extent is that they are trying to put more and more integration into email and i don't understand why?
As much as I am not fond of Google, their Gmail service is pretty basic and the only thing that is integrated is their chat service and that is only a small thing on the left hand side. No doubt at some point Google will try and integrate gmail into google+ for some reason.
conversations in email, why? Email is Email.
This is one thing I don't like about modern mobile phones the way they put SMS as conversations. it is not a conversation it is a text message.
but i presume you can go to basic email?
Thanks for that. I didn't know you could opt out of conversations!
In fact I kind of like the style... I just wish they'd kept the tabs as they were very useful.
I couldn't find anywhere to feedback this to yahoo either.
Same issue here today. I have to click on "Inbox" to get the list of messages back.
It was bad before, it's getting worse.