Introducing the New Yahoo Mail • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by NullXorVoid » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 8:28 PM UTC

sdafdasdfasdf wrote: post #63

jpdoctor wrote: post #46

Went to mail.yahoo.com to check my mail there (for the first time in months.) The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at. Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time I'll even bother looking when you say "Look! We've changed." Next.

Why did you pin this on Marissa instead of Yahoo? She signed her name to it, but if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs did that, you would have said Microsoft or Apple. Granted, her name has a better brand than Yahoo still, but she's working on that. What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female.

How could you possibly claim his post was sexist? There is literally nothing about what he said that is even remotely sexist.

Perhaps he's pinning the blame on Mayer because the announcement was written and signed by her! It's the role of the CEO to represent his or her company in this manner and serve as the lightning rod for any feedback. The fact that Mayer is a woman is completely irrelevant. Both Jobs and Gates (and many other male and female CEO's) took on that role, and there is absolutely no shortage of rants and raves over the years directly addressed at them.

In fact, I would say that you are the one being sexist, since you are apparently accusing jpdoctor of sexism based solely on the gender of Yahoo's CEO.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by genwin » Tue, Dec 11, 2012, 10:28 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #43

Anyone here who uses Yahoomail? Just curious. I stopped using them long back when they charged for some features while GMail still had them for free. Anyway, could anyone let us know how the new version is? I think my account has been deactivated due to inactivity (another irritating 'feature'). Their homepage doesn't clearly explain what has gotten better, and if it all, it is better than GMail. So would love to hea…

I prefer the current version of Yahoo Mail over the initial version of GMail. Perhaps GMail got a lot better since its initial version; I haven't checked.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by Wingman4l7 » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 1:18 AM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #5

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 sho…

This is paramount -- if you can't offer a spam engine as good as the one in Gmail, then you've lost before you've even started.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by MightyKlong » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 2:42 AM UTC

codewright wrote: post #54

dsl wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A good part of the value (for Yahoo) is the branding. It's more important to them right now to remind consumers that Yahoo still exists than cater to a handful of geeks with vanity domains.

Well then they're going to miss out on the people that vanguard these things. Having an @yahoo is embarrassing even for non-geeks.

You can get @rocketmail (not that I'm advocating Yahoo or anything).

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by fakeer » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 3:00 AM UTC

mrgoldenbrown wrote: post #13

luxagraf wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have had a different experience - I have gone longer than 4 months between logging in and have not lost everything. Unless of course I have some box/account/app somewhere out there logging in unbeknownst to me :)

That must be the case. You should check account settings to see whether you have permitted such apps or sth rogue.

As it clearly says it does so and I confirm as my inbox is wiped clean too. There were just few "Welcome to xyzabc.com" mails.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by fakeer » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 3:07 AM UTC

Looking at incredibly small screen-shots on this blog post (and having no way to resize) I guess I can safely say 'nothing much changed' at Yahoo it seems, as of now at least. Looks like the new Yahoo mail wants Flash. Tells me so.

Tabbed email is a very good start, btw.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by illuminate » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 5:07 AM UTC

sdafdasdfasdf wrote: post #63

jpdoctor wrote: post #46

Went to mail.yahoo.com to check my mail there (for the first time in months.) The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at. Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time I'll even bother looking when you say "Look! We've changed." Next.

Why did you pin this on Marissa instead of Yahoo? She signed her name to it, but if Bill Gates or Steve Jobs did that, you would have said Microsoft or Apple. Granted, her name has a better brand than Yahoo still, but she's working on that. What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female.

"Why did you pin this on Marissa instead of Yahoo?"

It's not unexpected for newly-joining execs to be blamed for recent decisions.

"What you said sounded sexist, and I'm not even a feminist or a female."

Possibly because you don't understand what a feminist perspective is? There are plenty of ways to be sexist, but strong personalities, male and female certainly get associated with brands.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by joshmlewis » Wed, Dec 12, 2012, 6:50 AM UTC

jpdoctor wrote: post #46

Went to mail.yahoo.com to check my mail there (for the first time in months.) The landing page had nothing to do with mail and everything to do with piles of crap that Yahoo wants me to look at. Congratulations Marissa, that's the last time I'll even bother looking when you say "Look! We've changed." Next.

You already have it set in your mind yahoo is going to keep failing. If this was the next greatest thing I'm sure you'd still have a negative comment. I care little to nothing about this, but reading your comment just made me think you aren't too keen on forgiveness and second chances. It's incredibly rare to get something right the first or even next few times.