New Yahoo!

[psic]

Has anyone noticed the new Yahoo page? It's gotten a make-over and not a good one in my opinion. Also, it seems much slower than the old version. Too bad they didn't look to Google for inspiration. You can switch to the old Yahoo (which isn't all that good either, now that I think about it) if you wish, though what I really need is a button called 'Remove all of this annoying crap'.

Any thoughts?

[fingal]

I quite like it, but I don't need all those features. I've used Yahoo mail for a while now with few problems, and that's all I want. They seem to think that the more features they have the better ... but I'm happy with something slick, functional and minimal.

[RustamB]

Didn't visit yahoo for ages. I don't have email account at yahoo and yahoo messenger. google is my search engine.

[void_false]

Didn't visit yahoo for ages. I don't have email account at yahoo and yahoo messenger. google is my search engine.

Same here. Google for search and mail. Google is da best

[psic]

I also use Yahoo mail, just because it's what I started with. Thought at home, I have an email client so I rarely visit the yahoo page. I believe that less is more, and simple is beautiful

Oh, and for search, google really is your best friend.

[Kojak]

The old Yahoo-Mail was functional, good, easy to navigate. The new beta is overkill. But still better than that catastrophic googlemail interface. (Thank god for mail-clients like evolution!)

[RustamB]

... But still better than that catastrophic googlemail interface.

Agree, current google webmail ui is a bit heavy. AJAX is cool thing, but within reasonable limits.

(Thank god for mail-clients like evolution!)

or like KMail, personally I prefer to use QT apps, as I'm using KDE. Hate GTK

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

mozilla thunderbird all the way!

[fingal]

Actually, I only started using Kmail several months ago. When I set it up I didn't realise that Yahoo's mail server had retained every single e-mail I'd ever receieved for the past x amount of years. This was true of everything I'd apparently deleted.

So when I connected to my Yahoo account via Kmail it downloaded all those e-mails to my hard drive one by one ...

[psic]

Actually, I only started using Kmail several months ago. When I set it up I didn't realise that Yahoo's mail server had retained every single e-mail I'd ever receieved for the past x amount of years. This was true of everything I'd apparently deleted.

So when I connected to my Yahoo account via Kmail it downloaded all those e-mails to my hard drive one by one ...

You used a different email client before? Because this is configured in the client and in some cases (gmail, yahoo doesn't have any settings regarding this) also on the web-interface. I leave all my mail on the server as a sort of back-up (a messed-up, non-organised backup, but hey, it still counts, hehe).

Though I know the feeling, since whenever I switch email clients (or computers) I have to wait for around half a gig of mail to download one-by-one. I've now been using Sylpheed Claws for almost a year, I love it.

EDIT: I forgot to mention the new Yahoo! mail interface... yuck. It's not bad looking, but it's just so sloooooowwwww. The old interface is not bad, I quite like it.