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Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#11

Post by Nux »

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now.

Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail account? Yahoo has become irrelevant.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#13

Post by mrgoldenbrown »

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.

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 :)

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#14

Post by ck2 »

Just tried to log into my old yahoo account to see the changes and despite knowing the password it asked me a security question from 2009 that I cannot remember the answer, so I guess I'm never using that one again (it locked me out for 12 hours).

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#15

Post by potatolicious »

richardlblair wrote: post #3

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.

Maybe MS should've bought Yahoo after all, if only so the Windows 8 mail app wouldn't be such an irredeemable, worthless piece of crap.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#16

Post by tszming »

It would be even more compelling if Yahoo start to offer free email service on custom domain as Google apps is no longer free. For the interface, I am not saying the new interface is bad, but even Yahoo! can make it as good as Gmail (forget the search first), still not a reason to switch..

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#18

Post by Gmo »

Nux wrote: post #11

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now. Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail…

Obviously, this just 1 datapoint but ...

I still use my original yahoo mail account, and my gmail account did not replace it.

Besides, my yahoo spam filter is not worse than my gmail spam filter (I would even say that it has less false positive).

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#19

Post by mtgx »

Damn it, where's Yahoo for Linux? And I'm hoping Marissa Mayer decides to integrate it with Google Talk contacts eventually.

And who uses a chat app full screen (like the Windows 8 one)?

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

#20

Post by dangrossman »

Nux wrote: post #11

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now. Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail…

Yahoo! Mail has more active users than Gmail; almost double in the US market. It's second only to Hotmail with over 300 million unique users.

http://visualize.yahoo.com/mail/ (see About, or Comscore's 2011 email market share report)

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