# Yahoo can go somehow sit on its own face after the most steaming spicy bowl of chili **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 9, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295 "2016-12-09T17:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/21 "2025-08-10T12:48:25Z")
And what would that change? The broken shit will remain as broken, mea culpa or not. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/22 "2025-08-10T21:15:16Z")
ISTM it would deter folks from going down rabbit holes trying to troubleshoot their own ends of the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/23 "2025-08-10T21:24:41Z")
Grandpa, what’s Yahoo? ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/24 "2025-09-08T19:35:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Grandpa, what’s Yahoo? I would never choose to go with Yahoo as an email provider, but they are reportedly taking over email hosting from Comcast Xfinity, which has been my ISP and which has hosted my email (including my primary email account) for myself and the rest of my family for the past two decades. > **[Xfinity Email move to Yahoo Mail](https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview)** > > Starting in June 2025, Comcast will begin moving all comcast.net email accounts to Yahoo Mail. Yahoo will host and support these accounts moving forward. Customers will be notified before the move and given multiple options. Great…I’m sure this will go well. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/25 "2025-09-08T19:56:42Z")
A news release dated 5 August 2025 is telling us what is going to happen in June 2025? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/26 "2025-09-08T20:03:30Z")
Having missed the original angst, it seems possible that the Great Yahoo Liberal-Baiting Affair of 2016 may just have been due to a software glitch disappearing people’s comments after a refresh, without political implications. Just the other day, mind you, I had a comment that disappeared from the Boston Globe sports section. And it was just mild snark about the Red Sox. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/27 "2025-09-08T20:22:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A news release dated 5 August 2025 is telling us what is going to happen in June 2025? It’s not a news release; it’s a Help & Support article that was posted several months ago and last updated on 5 August 2025. And the article says the transition is going to _start_ in June 2025 and continue in phases through 2026. I personally haven’t seen anything yet other than this announcement. > [@Comcast Xfinity](#): > > Beginning June 2025, [comcast.net](http://comcast.net) email accounts will begin transitioning to Yahoo Mail. This transition will happen in phases through 2026. There is nothing you need to do until we let you know that it’s time to complete the move. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/28 "2025-09-08T20:27:01Z")
Haven’t got the notice yet, but it’s no big deal for me, I use the comcast address as sort of a throwaway address anyway. This happened awhile back with my att email, which I use for the same thing. Guess I’ll have two different throwaway Yahoo emails now. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/29 "2025-09-09T02:30:10Z")
Reading further in the first link supplied by robby, the only difference users will apparently see is the email platform itself. Email address etc. will be the same. I suppose I will have to re-establish all the spam accounts I have marked up over the years. Who knows what else will be lost. I have a throwaway account on Yahoo already, I hope there won’t be more steps to get to my real account. I hate this. Just another hundred-suns’ worth of hatred I have for Comcast/Xfinity. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/30 "2025-09-09T02:52:36Z")
> [@robby](#): > > > [@Chronos](#): > > > > Grandpa, what’s Yahoo? > > I would never choose to go with Yahoo as an email provider, but they are reportedly taking over email hosting from Comcast Xfinity, which has been my ISP and which has hosted my email (including my primary email account) for myself and the rest of my family for the past two decades. > > [Xfinity Email move to Yahoo Mail - Xfinity Support](https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/yahoo-email-migration-overview) > > Great…I’m sure this will go well. 🙄 I’m just surprised it took Comcast this long. My ISP – which after a bunch of acquisitions is a very large one – abandoned their own email service and outsourced everything to Yahoo at least 15-20 years ago. How did that go? Imagine an ISP notorious for its incompetence outsourcing their email service to another organization that is possibly even more incompetent! To be fair, problems with email don’t happen all that often, but they do happen, and when they happen, calling my ISP’s support line is just an exercise in frustration. Realistically, all you can really do is wait the problem out, or use Gmail. A friend has the same ISP as I do, and has large volumes of email due to her home business. She gave up on the outsourced Yahoo crap many years ago and uses “Gmail for business”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/31 "2025-09-10T13:51:20Z")
Yeah, I was surprised that someone was still using, let alone pitting, Yahoo. So I opened this up to see that the rant was almost a decade old. But now you’re saying Comcast is moving their email to Yahoo… What’s next? Zuckerberg shutters Facebook because “MySpace can do it all perfectly fine”? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/32 "2025-09-12T03:20:59Z")
All of a sudden Yahoo’s email service has changed functionality. And that includes AOL. Yes, some of us still use those two for a variety of reasons. The gripe I have at the moment is that I am not able to scroll within a particular email nor find my own posts in the comments sections. What’s the purpose of having those services, ya yahoos at Yahoo, if you’re going to make them not functional? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/33 "2025-09-12T22:30:26Z")
AFAIK, the services are fine. Because I don’t use their brain-damaged web interface. Configuring an actual email client to access their servers frees me from the whims of their idiot web UI designers. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/34 "2025-09-13T00:38:19Z")
I have a few Yahoo email accounts I use for various (secondary and tertiary) purposes. Mine are kept on the old interface and I reject any attempt to give me the newer version. A “Try the new Yahoo mail” link has lived on my interface for years. Fortunately, they haven’t forced it on me. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/35 "2025-09-16T20:02:53Z")
You just reminded me to check my ancient “throwaway email”. Had to find the password, and luckily there’s nothing important there. I used to use a site where I could get a free email, and it happened to match my initials (so I was _[dw@dw.com](mailto:dw@dw.com))_ Then one day I checked it , and it had become a porn site! (And, yes, a female colleague happened to see it…) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295.md?page=1)