Yahoo Mail's New Look
I logged in this morning and found that yahoo has changed much of it's web based email service. For the same price, I now get 2gigs of storage and no graphical ads. The new look is also a bit cleaner.
Unfortunately, extreme technical difficulties accompanied the changes. Pages fail to load about 95% of the time and all interaction is incredibly lagged.
Anyone else having difficulty accessing yahoo mail today?
Unfortunately, extreme technical difficulties accompanied the changes. Pages fail to load about 95% of the time and all interaction is incredibly lagged.
Anyone else having difficulty accessing yahoo mail today?
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Originally posted by dfiler
I logged in this morning and found that yahoo has changed much of it's web based email service. For the same price, I now get 2gigs of storage and no graphical ads. The new look is also a bit cleaner.
Unfortunately, extreme technical difficulties accompanied the changes. Pages fail to load about 95% of the time and all interaction is incredibly lagged.
Anyone else having difficulty accessing yahoo mail today?
yeah, yahoo announced a bunch of changes to its email system today. unfortuantely, the internet took a serious hickup today, also. it doesn't have anything to do with the new mail service, just an unfortunate coincidence
see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06...i_goes_postal/
Originally posted by Existence
Suddenly, $100/year for .Mac seems like a poor value.
You don't get ANY of the other services though.
BTW, gMail is gonna kick all ass.
Originally posted by Placebo
You don't get ANY of the other services though.
BTW, gMail is gonna kick all ass.
Gmail is a timebomb waiting to happen. If you value your privacy, yahoo is a superior solution. many because of these concerns won't ever respond to emails from addresses orginating from Gmail.
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Originally posted by Existence
Gmail is a timebomb waiting to happen. If you value your privacy, yahoo is a superior solution. many because of these concerns won't ever respond to emails from addresses orginating from Gmail.
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Dude, the rest of the tin-foil-hat crowd delaired privacy dead with the USA Patriot Act. keep up on the news my good man.
Originally posted by a_greer
Dude, the rest of the tin-foil-hat crowd delaired privacy dead with the USA Patriot Act. keep up on the news my good man.
I think that people have more reasons to suspect the Patriot Act than Gmail.
Originally posted by dfiler
I logged in this morning and found that yahoo has changed much of it's web based email service. For the same price, I now get 2gigs of storage and no graphical ads. The new look is also a bit cleaner.
Unfortunately, extreme technical difficulties accompanied the changes. Pages fail to load about 95% of the time and all interaction is incredibly lagged.
Anyone else having difficulty accessing yahoo mail today?
less cluttered but worse overall... i prefer the cluttered look to this crap...
placebo... i agree that gMail will kick... i think that this yahoo! upgrade is supposed to counter it.
thoughts
PS
Originally posted by Placebo
I think that people have more reasons to suspect the Patriot Act than Gmail.
Or:
Echelon
and
Information Awareness Office
It's original logo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IAO-logo.png
Which is blasphemous (if one is religious - which, I assumed Bush/Ashcroft proclaim to be) since it depicts "God" seemingly acting as a tool for the U.S. government. The eye on the pyramid on the dollar bill symbolizes the Divine Power yet in the IAO logo it is merely a spy satellite watching the Middle East. With Orwellian/pseudo-Masonic crap like this, who needs conspiracy theories?
And:
Carnivore
Yahoo! Mail is the best
Nick
Originally posted by PS5533
less cluttered but worse overall... i prefer the cluttered look to this crap...
I agree that the interface is in obvious need of improvement.
eMail isn't really that complicated of a task and on yahoo's site, there aren't that many links to other pages.
Unfortunately, they've managed to use something like five horizontal toolbar regions while leaving most sparsely populated. The left side bar is also almost completely wasted. Interface elements (links) are scattered haphazardly, leaving the real content as an afterthought in a sea of randomly located words and graphics.
The one screenshot i've seen of gmail indicates that google recognizes this pitfall and has opted for a clean but not limited interface. Clean layout is one of google's main attractions. Hopefully they recognize this and keep gmail clean.