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Do you mind sharing why you still use Yahoo Mail, let alone paying to use it? (serious question)

yuhong 12y ago
I think most of the complaints are about the user interface nowadays. It sometimes does have other problems, but that is probably because it takes a while for Yahoo to change.
- sp332 12y ago
  Both the user interface and the spam filtering are awful. I only use it for a throwaway address (I personally don't pay for it, rohandhruva) so I've never tried any more "advanced" features. Why bother if it can't get the fundamentals right?
  - yuhong 12y ago
    OK, I hasn't looked much at the spam filtering, so...
- EarthLaunch 12y ago
  After 12+ years of service they deleted my secondary email account because I hadn't visited it in less than a year ("username has been recycled"), then wouldn't let me re-claim the username, and have no support contact for it. I will never trust them with anything important.
  - yuhong 12y ago
    I think they are responding to these kind of problems over Twitter now, though it might be because the user name has already be reused.
  - danielweber 12y ago
    You made me launch my old Yahoo account to be sure it's still there. Then I tried to respond to an email in Yahoo! Mail, and EVERYTIME I HIT THE LETTER 'i' IT POPS UP A CHAT DIALOG BOX WTF. Sorry, but it's really frustrating.
- JetSpiegel 12y ago
  Why do people still continue to use the crappy web interfaces for email?
  - bad_user 12y ago
    If you're also referring to the Gmail interface, it's because all the desktop clients I tried suck - this year alone I tried Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Microsoft Exchange and Mailbox and I can't even remember the apps that I tried on my iPad or on my Android. They all suck compared to Gmail's web interface.
    - Bud 12y ago
      Out of curiosity, have you tried Airmail on the Mac? I tend to agree with your observations about the clients you mention, but Airmail really stands out as excellent to me (although I like version 1 better than the recent version 2).
      - bad_user 12y ago
        Thanks for the tip, I'll try it.

I think most of the complaints are about the user interface nowadays. It sometimes does have other problems, but that is probably because it takes a while for Yahoo to change.

sp332 12y ago
Both the user interface and the spam filtering are awful. I only use it for a throwaway address (I personally don't pay for it, rohandhruva) so I've never tried any more "advanced" features. Why bother if it can't get the fundamentals right?
- yuhong 12y ago
  OK, I hasn't looked much at the spam filtering, so...
EarthLaunch 12y ago
After 12+ years of service they deleted my secondary email account because I hadn't visited it in less than a year ("username has been recycled"), then wouldn't let me re-claim the username, and have no support contact for it. I will never trust them with anything important.
- yuhong 12y ago
  I think they are responding to these kind of problems over Twitter now, though it might be because the user name has already be reused.
- danielweber 12y ago
  You made me launch my old Yahoo account to be sure it's still there. Then I tried to respond to an email in Yahoo! Mail, and EVERYTIME I HIT THE LETTER 'i' IT POPS UP A CHAT DIALOG BOX WTF. Sorry, but it's really frustrating.
JetSpiegel 12y ago
Why do people still continue to use the crappy web interfaces for email?
- bad_user 12y ago
  If you're also referring to the Gmail interface, it's because all the desktop clients I tried suck - this year alone I tried Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Microsoft Exchange and Mailbox and I can't even remember the apps that I tried on my iPad or on my Android. They all suck compared to Gmail's web interface.
  - Bud 12y ago
    Out of curiosity, have you tried Airmail on the Mac? I tend to agree with your observations about the clients you mention, but Airmail really stands out as excellent to me (although I like version 1 better than the recent version 2).
    - bad_user 12y ago
      Thanks for the tip, I'll try it.