It seems to be some sort of performance art or psychological stress test.
AIs ayone else having trouble with it? I have two Yahoo email accounts, one that I use for ordering stuff online (a spam magnet) and one that I use with friends. About a month ago, one of them switched to the new Yahoo email system, and it became pretty much unusable. I click on email and they won’t open. I send email and they won’t send. I’m constantly getting loading errors and even occasional html debug messages. It seemed like an untested pile of shit, and I assumed they would be fixing it shortly . For weeks it remained unchanged, and I eventually stopped using it. When I logged in to the other account yesterday, I got a “Congratulations, New Email is Here” message, and I desperately looked for a button to skip it and keep the old email. There didn’t seem to be one, and after reluctantly accepting, I am finding this address is now virtually useless as well. Is anyone else having similar problems? Is there any way to get back to the old system?
I imagine I’ll have to switch to gmail, but I’ve had these email addresses for over a decade, and I’m sure to lose touch with some people if I switch.
Yeah, I’ve slowly been coming to the realization that the yahoo account that I’ve had for the better part of 10 years is just gonna have to be ditched. It’s just been getting worse and worse over the last few years.
I got the congrats this morning too. Why don’t I feel congratulated?
I had problems with it being slow right after I upgraded. It kept telling me how the new e-mail was going to be so much faster than the old one, and then it performed like a snail on sedatives. I wasn’t impressed, to say the least.
Lately though mine has been fine. I haven’t noticed any issues. I wouldn’t say it is any faster than the old system, but I wouldn’t say it is slower either.
My main complain is that it automatically logs me out of Yahoo chat. Heck, sometimes I cannot even connect to the chat. And when I do connect, again, it logs me out automatically and won’t let me log back in.
I do like the new feature that makes it easier to send an email to someone you don’t have as a contact.
If you just want to simply send and receive mail, you can use Thunderbird and the Webmail extension. Bypasses all the website hassles, but all its “features” (whatever they might be) as well.
Mine works, but I hate it. The screen size is messed up. Yes, I can change my small netbook’s overall screen resolution, but then I will hate how everything BUT yahoo looks. When I’m typing a message, when I get to the bottom of the screen, the sentence is cut off and I can’t read what I’m typing unless I scroll down further manually with arrow/enter keys, as the bars on the right are already at the bottom. I have to then scroll to the top to hit “send”, as I can’t even see it on the bottom. I’m going to do some more research if I change some settings so I can work around it, but it’s really annoying me. I’ve had my account for 11.5 years. I really don’t want to give it up, but it’s so antiquated in some of its rules. I know it’s how they generate money, but $20 for mail forwarding? It seems so quaint now.
BTW, I had kept the old versions, but this was a “We’re not giving you a choice” thing. One morning I logged in and… it had changed. I keep looking for the “go back to old style”, but alas, I cannot find it.
Yahoo! Mail’s new interface is a mandatory change for all of their accounts, unlike the previous 2 “Classic” and “Beta” options from before, and you won’t be able to change back. I haven’t had any problems with it personally, but it took a couple of settings changes to work the way I prefer.
I have found that if you don’t use a recommended browser (like IE 7 or earlier) some things might not work the way they should or some buttons won’t appear, which could be along the lines of what the OP is experiencing.
I don’t quite understand the problem Fair Rarity is having. I tried shrinking my browser window to a ridiculously small size, and it still kept the text I was typing in a visible frame, and the “Send” button and the rest of the header stays there. That might also have something to do with the browser.
In the new version, is there not a way to have one panel listing all my inbox emails, and another panel displaying whichever email I’ve selected?
That’s how it used to be.
But now, it appears I can’t do this–once I click on an email to read it, the list goes away and everything in the panel is replaced by the email itself.
Am I the only one who wasn’t forced into the new version? I kept getting e-mails about the impending “upgrade” but deleted them hoping there’d be a way out when it came, and there was. I clicked the “Thanks, but no thanks” button circled here, and was never bothered about it again. I’m tired of Y! Mail’s bullshit too, but I’ve had this account for 11 years and I really don’t want to change my e-mail now. If they ever do force me into a change, I’ll suck it up and go to gmail.
I have my system display resolution set at something that has caused conflict on a few other things, but usually programmers (especially for such big things like Yahoo!) take into account different browsers/OS/screen resolutions. If I enlarge my browser with F11, it helps a tiny bit, but that’s not how I want to browse. Shrinking it and resizing it smaller doesn’t make it any worse. So it’s a system display, not a browser display that I can tweak thing. I do plan on doing some research to see if it’s something that I can find a box to click. I should check it out on IE (I use FF) to see how different it is.
This was mandatory for me as well. I got lots of warning, but with other “upgrades”, there was the Classic option to revert to. I wonder if some of you haven’t had yours change is that they’re rolling it out in batches, like FB often does when it updates.
That’s not really a button, and it’s rather small print. In other words, the opt out is in the fine print. The point is that most people will not notice it.
I am debating clicking on it and seeing if I can get back out. Since I never use it since I got my Gmail, I guess I’ll go ahead. I’ll report how I got the old version back when I have the chance.
Well, it turns out they are assholes. Their help files specifically state they removed the ability to go back on purpose. This means they lied when they said you could “try out” the new version, since a trial necessitates the ability to opt out later. I already sent them a rather harshly worded email on the subject.
Fortunately, I did figure out a way to get back to Yahoo! Mail Classic, the one I happened to use. Unfortunately, it involves using an old web browser that won’t support the new mail. Yahoo will detect this, and give you a chance to opt out, and the last option is a permanent opt out.
Here’s a link to a portable version of Firefox 2. Install it to a temporary folder, run it, go to mail.yahoo.com, log in, opt out, close the program, then delete the folder. (as it’s portable, you don’t have to uninstall.)
I tried to figure out just a URL, but it seems it is randomly generated, so the above is all I can offer. Sorry.
Yes I’ve been having a horrible time with Yahoo lately. My phone lets me know when I get an email so I check, sometimes I can’t get the email, sometimes it just hangs. The worst so far for me is the damn auto complete. I use this email for all my correspondence with the ex wife, she has a work email and another email. I don’t use the work email and more. I also emailed someone else with the same first name a couple of times so now I get three different emails that come up when I try and write an email. I have to make sure I’m sending it to the correct person but every time the auto complete changes the order. I only have one of those emails in my contacts list yet the others keep coming up.
I have no idea why all three come up, but the Yahoo help says you can not at this time get rid of address in auto complete. Why should someone I mailed 8 months ago still come up?
I’d ditch too, but I’ve had it for 14 years. Almost everything is connected to it. I also don’t really like GMail that much.
