Does anyone else hate the new Yahoo email??

[ailsagirl]

It's AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!

Time to make gmail my default, I guess.

[In_The_Wind]

1. Me! I hate it so much I stopped reading my Yahoo emails.

[SlipperySlope]

2. I hate the fact that it doesn't work

I click on a message to read and just get that spinny circle thing. How long am I supposed to wait?

[ailsagirl]

10. Not only that...

when I clear out my spam folder, it gives me a clever little message:

You are my Anti-Spam hero.

There are no emails in your Spam folder.


What the hell????

[texanwitch]

3. I have two Yahoo email accounts I don't read either one.

Just call me, text me.

I have yet to set up a email account on my smart phone.

I was never good about answering emails anyway.

I do have a gmail account, which I never read.

I just go in and clean them out once a month.

[KamaAina]

4. Yes.

But I don't think switching to Gmail is gonna help. Yahoo! Mail 2.0 is supposed to be a copycat of Gmail.

[ailsagirl]

9. Wonderful

I haven't used this smiley for awhile... (thanks for reminding me it exists!)

[MizzM]

12. You are exactly right, KamaAina

I have had a Yahoo account for years. I recently added a Gmail account, and I found it confusing after using Yahoo for so long. Now the Yahoo account changes, and it's so much like Gmail - and just as confusing to me.

[ailsagirl]

13. I can't get into gmail

that is, I don't like the interface

For some reason, I'm unable to use Outlook on my PC, so that leaves Hotmail (no thanks).

To all those well-meaning Yahoo developers:

IF SOMETHING AIN'T BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT!!!

[Incitatus]

5. I haven't been on my Yahoo email in months, but the new Yahoo Answers design sucks. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. Yep. I noticed it seems a lot less busy over there now.

[ailsagirl]

6. What were they thinking??

Is this a joke??

[patricia92243]

7. They have also changed the calendar, movie listings. etc. - several times. I would change, but I

would have to go all over the net to change my email and my calendar is full of stuff. It is just too much trouble to change.

[ailsagirl]

8. I know-- they kind of have us over a barrel

And to think I PAY for this abomination!!!


Grrrrr....

[pengillian101]

27. You have to pay?

Mine's been free since forever, but I don't have anything fancy or anything. Just a basic free account.

[ailsagirl]

28. You're right-- the basic version is free

but I was inundated with ads and so I sprang for the "enhanced" version which enables me to block emails, create disposable email addresses, etc.

It's not that expensive and it protects me, I think.

[pengillian101]

36. Ok. thanks.

[ailsagirl]

37. You betcha' !!

Sorry-- couldn't resist

[marmar]

11. It's truly awful.

[pokerfan]

14. I hate the new Yahoo everything!

Their sports pages used to be so clean, informative and eazy to navigate. Now they are a jumbled mess.

[ailsagirl]

15. I'm just finding that out-- I'm sorry to hear that

I keep finding out MORE things Yahoo screwed up in an effort to be cool. Or whatever.

Ninnies

[pokerfan]

22. They're making changes just for the sake of making changes

which is what drives me nuts. I hope David Pogue can straighten them out but it's probably too late.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/david-pogue-yahoo_n_4136518.html

[ailsagirl]

38. Maybe he can -- let's hope so

[Incitatus]

16. Maybe they hired the guy that designed FreeRepublic to redo their site. nt

[EvolveOrConvolve]

17. First thing I did when the new Yahoo mail client came out

Was change the settings so it looked like the old Yahoo mail client. They tried to copy GMail with its conversations and archive features that EVERYBODY hates. I literally know zero people who like the conversation view.

Also Yahoo, the goddamn reading pane goes on the bottom - don't make me open a fucking email to read it. I want to be able to quickly browse all my emails without leaving the page (like Outlook does). Luckily, this is one that I was able to change back.

[ailsagirl]

18. I guess that's asking for too much

I can't find anything and I resent having to learn some ridiculous interface-- as if I asked for it.

Can't help it-- I had to vent, hence the thread

I thought I was the only one who hates it

[gvstn]

21. One thing to do is turn off Conversations

Go to the cog at the top right and select Settings then View Mail then untick the box for Enable Conversations. That will get rid of the grouping of messages which makes it so hard to find things.

The other thing I did (but don't really use) is to set Thunderbird to sync with my Yahoo, so if I ever want to I can read my Yahoo mail using the Thunderbird interface which is essentially the same as Outlook. I set it up before I figured out that the conversation mode is what was the most troublesome part of the new interface. It works fairly well and deleting a message in Thunderbird deletes it on Yahoo's server and vice versa.

But I agree the old interface was much easier and straight forward. As it stands now I have no faith that my saved emails are really safe any more.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. Thanks for the pointer on conversations. That may help save my sanity.

[ailsagirl]

26. Thanks for the tip!!

I'm glad I started this thread-- that grouping of messages really threw me, and now I've disabled it. Anything to declutter my life!!

[bigwillq]

19. Yes. I don't like it

but it's not awful on the cell phone version.

[doc03]

20. It sucks n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Yes!! I hated the previous change too, when they stopped bumping emails from contacts to

the top. But I REALLY hate this weird conversation thing they have going. You would think it would make sense, but for some reason I am having trouble with finding the newest emails sent back.

[Skip Intro]

29. Yeah, and I onced loved it. Gmail is no better. Outlook has my business, for now.

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For the longest time I was on what they used to call "classic." I loved that one. Was the same reliable service for years. After the recent forced switch to the new Yahoo mail, they still provide a "classic" option, which I use now, but it isn't the old classic, if that makes sense.

Anyway, the service went to hell. It's a little better now than it was, but it still gives me log-in issues, and takes forever to show an email after I click on it. Still unacceptable and frustrating.

I have a few gmail accounts. Every time I try to do something with Google, they are tossing pop-ups about other services, especially pushing Google+ hard, wanting me to "connect" to other people I might know. I know how to contact people I want to contact, Google. Get out of my face, you know? Really intrusive and it is getting worse. Plus I don't like their email interface that much.

But while I was looking for an alternative to Yahoo earlier this year, Outlook launched. Super, at this point. Hopefully they won't screw it up. But at this point, can't beat it. Few ads, none intrusive. Great interface. Free use of "cloud-based" Office tools. I'm really impressed with it.

The only reason I still use my Yahoo account is because they won't allow an export of emails and contacts unless you are a Yahoo Prime member - which is $20. I may wind up paying it.

[ailsagirl]

39. Oh no-- now you can get "ad-free" Yahoo for $49.99-- YIKES

http://icgeeks.org/yahoo-mail-is-a-makeover-and-introduces-the-ad-free-version-at-49-99/

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!

[Skip Intro]

40. Outta their minds. n/t

[MrsBrady]

47. luckily I'm grandfathered in with the old price...but

I hope I can get away from it all the way soon.

[PoliticAverse]

30. You are not alone. And they are using that faddish 'load more when you scroll down to the bottom

of the page' instead of the old 'click on next page' method (horrible when you have lots of email).

[Throd]

31. Not only hate it. I want to disembowel it and feed its entrails to the morons who redesigned it.

They took something that worked fine and fucked it up for the stupidest of reasons.

[LumosMaxima]

32. It's very slow on my machine.

Also hard to navigate. I liked the old, plain-HTML web mail services we had in the late 1990s. Everything is over-scripted now and it doesn't really feel like we're getting anything that's worth the slow performance.

[ailsagirl]

35. over-scripted is right

They've added weird functionality and removed the basics, it seems. And it's not nearly as attractive as it used to be. Also, I HATE their new toolbar (with the icons)-- dull, dull, dull.

[Vashta Nerada]

33. I didn't know people still used Yahoo.

I stopped using it in 2001.

[ailsagirl]

34. Just a paltry 281 million users

According to Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail#2013_release

[patricia92243]

41. I changed it to "compatible view" and it went back to the old one. You go into Tools -

then on the drop screen, about the twelfth item down is "compatible view."

[ailsagirl]

43. Hey, thanks!!

[B Calm]

42. gmail here!

[Xyzse]

44. I hate gmail

You have to go through hoops to delete prior iterations of the email.

Meaning, it is done like a conversation. You see everything prior to the email, so I can't just easily forward something while taking out where it came from.

[area51]

45. Agreed, the new yahoo mail is awful. n/t

[MrsBrady]

46. I've had my yahoo email since 1998...

and i'm now moving away from Yahoo as much as I can.
I'm not going to kill it because I've had it so long. But gmail is my new email.

Used to love it...it sucks so bad now.

[The New Me]

48. Yep, hate it too

New isn't always better.