Comments on: gmail beta vs yahoo mail beta

By: A H

A H — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:51:43 +0000

Oh and don’t forget some of us still use dial-up and flash ads are bitches to load. AND YAHOO EASILY HAS 6 OF THE SAME AD ON A SINGLE PAGE.

By: A H

A H — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:48:05 +0000

Yahoo has and always will blow hard cock. Gmail is faster, cleaner, easier, and HAS SPAM FILTERS THAT ACTUALLY WORK WORTH A SHIT! Seriously, Yahoo flags 2/3 Amazon messages in the inbox while puts the third in spam. What the fuck algorithm douche bag engineer wrote that up?

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straydog scraps » On Yahoo Mail Beta — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:40:16 +0000

[...] recent launch of it’s mail beta is mainly to catch up with GMail. Rather than writing a comparison between these two which eventually will end up comparing apples and oranges, I [...]

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numerodix blog » Blog Archive » Yahoo! : married to mediocrity — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:24:48 +0000

[...] already reviewed once how they are destroying Yahoo! Mail, which is actually one of their very best services, in favor of [...]

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:12:11 +0000

I’m looking to see if anyone has had this problem I am experiencing on Yahoo Verizon Beta. All of a sudden, the other day, my header and footer became corrupted. The header is covered by a purple strip and looks completely different. Missing icons and “Check Mail” and “Compose.” Also the footer is in a straight Courier font with just the date and time in black and white not listing any events. But when I hover over the footer, it brings up my location and weather right over the text in my inbox. The strangest part is this – If I log off my name and onto the other account on the same computer, it’s fine when I log in. No problems at all. I can’t figure it out and I HATE the Yahoo Verizon NON-beta. Please help if you can!! Appreciate any and all ideas. If necessary, email me at cmmclaughlin@verizon.net with any answers.

By: Sierra Smith

Sierra Smith — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:14:49 +0000

I recently switched to yahoo mail beta and i would like to switch back to my old yahoo mail page.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:21:03 +0000

See PATNOX.COM …I’t seems obvious.. we all have our own taste. What Yahoo Mail does to the In-Reply-To header appears to be random. Whatever it is, it’s random and broken. Yahoo has been screwing around with a new home page. They used to have the news and important stuff on the right where the eye naturally goes, and the crap and ads on the left. Now they reversed everything. The important stuff is on the left. Screw you, Yahoo.

By: AdemoS

AdemoS — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:23:48 +0000

Wow, the amount of off topic ignorance in this comment section is staggering.

1.) Paying for Yahoo Mail has NOTHING TO DO with using the free version. Gmail offers more space than Yahoo Mail Plus and you have to PAY FOR THE PLUS. Yes really, I have the Plus version because I use AT&T Yahoo DSL, so I see the insanity all the time.

Gmail – “You are currently using 694 MB (25%) of your 2773 MB.”
Yahoo Mail Plus – “0% of 2.0GB”

Want proof? http://billing.mail.yahoo.com/bm/Upgrades – “Virtually unlimited space” indeed

2.) Having to learn forty shortcuts just to disable all the dumb-crap-ideas is just a waste of time. Most people just want to check their e-mail, not customize their webmail client like a hotrod.

3.) Having to install FIVE THINGS (Firefox, two extensions, two scripts for them) just to use a mail service easily is enough to make me NOT USE that mail service. Gmail works on EVERY browser I can throw at it, and guess what? I don’t NEED to disable SHIT. The text ads are barely noticeable and ONLY there when reading a message, unlike Yahoo’s.

4.) Who’s dumb-ass idea was it to have a “HOMEPAGE” for your e-mail? I check my e-mail to see the MESSAGES I WAS SENT not to see the current news and who’s sponsoring Yahoo today.

5.) TAABBSSSS!!!!!! Amazing, but why do you think no one else is using them on their webmail? Maybe because EVERY CURRENT BROWSER ALREADY UTTILIZES THEM? Why do you need ANOTHER set of a tabs, just for e-mail? If I want to see more than one message at once, I can open gmail.com in another browser tab, and get to the desired message in almost less time then Yahoo Mail Beta loads ONE tab with e-mail in it.

6.) A loading screen animation? So not only is the load time seemingly longer than Gmail, but they have some jackass cartoon-man on a bouncing ball? Sure it’s cute the first time, but why am I loading animated GIFs when I wanted to view my messages? They need to spend less time on cute gags and more time on SPEED and USABILLITY.

** I sent Yahoo some “feedback” of my own, I think everyone here should do the same:
http://communications.yahoo.com/newmail_survey

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:21:47 +0000

The yahoo beta mail is crap. It’s bloated and covered in ads that i can’t figure out how to remove with adblock (it wipes the original yahoo mail ads right off the screen though). The web 2.0 features could have been nice if they just added them to the original yahoo mail, it’s quite tedious when the whole page has to reload everytime you click on something. But the advanced javascripts that controls the width and height of virtually every element aswell as the drag&drop-handlers makes the page and all its functions act really sluggish. Nah, i’ll just stick to the original yahoo mail until someone sends me an gmail invite. *hint*

By: John

John — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:02:57 +0000

Strangely enough, i’m getting tired of Gmail. I doubted i’d ever say that, but it just plain doesn’t work now. Yahoo sucks more. I don’t know why, and even though it works, I’m just sick of it. I used the beta for maybe 2 days before I got tired of the layout and everything.