Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by inerte » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 2:06 PM UTC

Introducing the New Yahoo Mail
ycorpblog.com

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by jhatax » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:45 PM UTC

For loyal Yahoo! Mail users like myself, this announcement reaffirms Yahoo!'s focus on, and commitment to, their most popular services. I also like the unified experience on all devices.

The CEO's post shows her involvement in these changes. The changes demonstrate her desire to rework the underpinnings of services rather than revamping the user experience for marginal gains. The former infuse the right elements into Yahoo!'s culture; the latter serve as window dressing and don't help to mitigate/fix the underlying issues that have handicapped Yahoo! over the last 5 or so years.

I am looking forward to future updates to Yahoo!'s services.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by richardlblair » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:48 PM UTC

The windows 8 app looks hot.

It looks a lot like outlook.com (from what I can see on that small picture), but it looks hot.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by dchest » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by kibwen » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

Recently I noticed how absurdly homogenous my pinned browser tabs have become: Gmail, Google Reader, Google+ Hangouts, and Youtube. I dumped Yahoo's bloated mail client years ago, but I think I'd actually be willing to give it another shot if only to get some of my eggs out of this basket.

Take note, Yahoo: for me, online mail is largely just a pretty interface to a spam filter. Now that your client is sane, this should be your top priority.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by kibwen » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #4

Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?

I log in to my Yahoo account about once a year to reset a password on , and I've never experienced this.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by luxagraf » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

dchest wrote: post #4

Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?

Just went to login to my Yahoo account and I can confirm that yes, they do. Everything is deleted if you don't login for four months.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by webwanderings » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 4:03 PM UTC

Hope they're getting rid of their old fashioned advertisement bar on the right and hope they're getting rid of the junk applications. I am really not hopeful but I would go back to my first ever email address if I see them provide better experience than Gmail. But what are the chances?

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by randallu » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 4:05 PM UTC

I hope they do threading some day...

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by masnick » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 4:14 PM UTC

luxagraf wrote: post #7

dchest wrote: post #4

Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?

Just went to login to my Yahoo account and I can confirm that yes, they do. Everything is deleted if you don't login for four months.

Just happened to me too. There is no better way to piss off your uses than deleting all their email. I could see having a 2 year deactivation, but 4 months? I'm sure the storage space isn't an issue, so this can only be a ploy to try to force users to log in.

Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her. This, along with probably 10,000 other things, needs to change if Yahoo wants to compete with Google (and Microsoft?).