The notification is so off now. It’ll say I have two when I have one. It might be my add-on notifier, but I think it’s Yahoo.
Also, I get very little spam in my inbox. I’ve had the account for so long and was so good about marking spam all along that 99% ends up in my spam box, and only very rarely does non-spam end up there.
Today using it I hated it overall. I had to find a message in one of my folders and the folder kept disappearing, so I’d keep having to re-search for the terms, whereas the previous version’s tabs would keep it somewhat manageable to search and have a bunch open. It might be how my personal settings are, but I didn’t see an obvious fix and it took a lot longer to find an email than it should have. I know I would have found it quicker in the old yahoo.
I’ve noticed that it’s extremely, as in hit the delete key, look at an analog clock, note the position of the second hand, look back to see if the message is gone yet, look back at the clock, check the message, and then maybe it will disappear [breathe] - slow.
Given that version 23 of Firefox isn’t exactly the picture of speed and svelteness, it probably shares some of the blame but I doubt if even FF is quite that bad, even with a modest number of plugins. And since the machine is an i7-2600k with 16gig and an SSD, I don’t think it’s the hardware either.
Blame Marissa Mayer.
She got a bug up her ass that Yahoo should be a one-stop news/information site and so she got rid of everything unique to make it look like everyone else. She’s the one responsible for the orphaned IM system and doesn’t give a shit how easy it is to hack the email system. She banned telecommuting and was able to drive up profits so clearly she’s doing something right but at what price and how long can it last?
Because, in the tech world, continuing to use something when something better is just extremely unusual.
I mean, none of you reasons would in any way mean that I would stick with Yahoo. And I didn’t. Yes, it was a bit of an ordeal, since Yahoo does not make it easy to leave, but I did it. (Autoreplies set up to tell people about my new email helped a lot.) The fact that I’d been online since 1995 was irrelevant. The fact that I got it so long ago was irrelevant. Yahoo no longer offered voice-email and made basic features pay-only.
And, while I won’t judge you as an individual, most people who are still on Yahoo are in fact not that all computer literate. That’s the clientele Yahoo has been courting. That’s their demographic. It is a valid assumption that you fit into that demographic until you prove yourself otherwise, just like it’s a valid assumption that someone here is a liberal atheist on this messageboard.
You are judged by the company you keep, and, by using Yahoo! mail, you are keeping company with the people who comment on every article about how Obama is a socialist and think Yahoo Answers is good.
Or, people have low requirements for social email and find the cost of switching to be greater than whatever benefit they’d get from “advanced” features.
Sure, I could change phone numbers because the new one will give me 8 way conference calling 5 voicemail boxes and customizable forwarding technology. Or, I can stick with my normal number, which does a damn good job of ringing my phone when my mom calls, and I won’t have to send out 100 messages to people about my new number.
It does not matter who your email provider is. In my book anyone who uses their browser to access their web mail belongs to the lowest of the low. Webmail is for teenagers and computer illiterates. Those in the know use an email client like Outlook or Outlook Express. In this thread I seem to be the only one to use an email client which clearly shows I am superior to all of you. So there.
This. Exactly. GMail was late to the game, was limited to ‘invites’ when it started, and didn’t really give me an indication of what made it better at the time except it was free vs. the whole $10 a year Yahoo was charging and wasn’t hotmail.
It was not worth the risk/effort vs. reward scale for me. I mean what the fuck is voice email? Why don’t I just call the person? Most of the computers I have to use don’t have speakers attached anyway.
In addition, while I have multiple email accounts I really only use my yahoo one for personal contact info. My hotmail is a junk mail dumping ground (used for confirming accounts, etc) and my Gmail is just because Droid makes me use it.
Sticking with something that works (despite the interface change since I do most email from an Outlook program) is not a sign of tech illiteracy and adopting a new product simply because of some features you’ll likely never use does not make you 'L33T. All it means is that you desperately need Malibu Stacey’s new hat.
I’m not about to track down all 100+ websites I have my stupid Yahoo account attached to, just to change them to my stupid Gmail account. Maybe the assumption people should have of Yahoo users - especially on the SDMB - is that they had the Yahoo account before Gmail existed and can’t be soused to “change” accounts and simply have multiple accounts. I opened the Yahoo in the first place because AT&T made me, back in 2002 or something, when I bought one of the first smartphones they ever carried. So blame At&T.
Yeah, what the hell?! I go into the settings for viewing email, change it to ‘basic’ and hit save. Then the next time I go back to Yahoo Mail it’s on the shitty redesigned format again! I finally did what you suggested, saving it as a bookmark and it stays basic. But what the !@##$ is the point of having a save settings function that doesn’t save the settings?!
Short of going to basic, I found it helps to disable conversations. Click on the gear shaped object to the upper right of the screen, click on “settings”, click on “viewing email,” then uncheck the box by “enable conversations,” then click save.
Once you’ve done this the annoying conversations go away. It is also possible then, like under the old email, to sort by sender so it is easier to delete unwanted emails by group. (To sort by sender once you’ve done this, click on “view” near the upper right.)
I killed conversations right away. My complaint about the new system is that if you reply to all and want to change the Message title is appears to be impossible. To do that I switch to Basic. But Basic does not appear to allow you to mass delete mails.
I’m keeping my gmail account pristine in case I ever need it. However I must say the Yahoo spam filter is pretty good - I almost never see any crap.
Really? And I bet she is effectively disavowing classic Yahoo products like IM and Mail and Yahoo culture like telecommuting in an effort to brand Yahoo as the newest one-stop news source. Next you’ll be saying crazy stuff like she put a nursery in her office when she banned telecommuting and is managing to increase profit without a corresponding increase in revenue.
