Yahoo: back to the Classic
Instead of wandering around fruitlessly at the Yahoo site, looking for a way to get back to Yahoo Classic email, it finally dawned on me that I might be able to actually write to the folks at Yahoo and request a return to the tried-and-true.
And so I did—and got the following almost immediate reply:
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
We have received your request to return to a previous version of Yahoo!Mail, and we will switch the email service of your account to Yahoo! Mail Classic within two business days. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced while using our new Yahoo! Mail, and we hope this change helps.
The speed and the cooperative tone of Yahoo’s reply indicate to me that I’m not the only one who’s been deeply unhappy with the forced change they instituted back in September. Here are some of the problems others have encountered with it. The right click problem mentioned at the end is definitely among the very worst faults of the new, “improved” system:
As the new Yahoo! Mail became mandatory for users, a number of previously satisfied users of Yahoo! Mail started to report slow typing speeds with the new Yahoo! Mail,[citation needed] running contradictory to Yahoo!’s claims that the new Yahoo! Mail would perform “2x” faster. Yahoo! offered no resolution to the problem as of September 12, 2011, and continued to advertise that Yahoo! Mail “provides performance that is 2x faster than the previous versions of Yahoo! Mail” and runs at “lightning speed.” Further slowing down user productivity, users cannot copy and paste email addresses from the sender box but must navigate to the Contacts tab and search for a contact to be able to copy and paste an email address. This is because now recipient email addresses convert to the name of the recipient highlighted inside a box, without an immediate option for accessing the email address to copy and paste like in traditional email clients. Although it is not mentioned, upgrading to the new version disables the use of the secondary addresses provided in the previous version. Thus users will not receive emails sent to a secondary address anymore. The new interface overrides the browser’s right mouse button (e.g., making functions such as opening mails in new tab windows unavailable).
Plus é§a change, plus c’est la méªme chose.
I have used their mail from almost their beginnings for non critical generalized mail.
Your issues are not seen by me personally for the most part because I have the premium version Yahoo Plus.
The big advantage of that one is it allows me multiple disposable email addresses to tailor emails to specific accounts so if it get compromised with spam I know who had to be the source and just kill off that address and the problem vanishes without endangering my primary address there.
I used to have to pay an annual fee for that but my isp now includes it as part of my level of service package.
The disposable emails are built with a two part method
You choose a base name and then append the part to make it unique to identify it so for example
MyThrowAways-ebay@yahoo.com would be an address you use just for ebay related issues and you can even create a folder just for that email set.
I thought it was just my imagination and that I don’t like change. I’m a little torn about changing back since it is easier to add new folders now. Knowing I have the option makes me much happier.
P.S. How did you contact them? I know when they first changed over they had a feedback button where I told them I hated it but what’s the best way to get hold of them?
Mine may react different but as far as copying email addresses all I have to do is click on the + sign next to the sender and it opens the header or contact information where I can cut and past from.
Neo, please post how we can get back to Yahoo “Classic”. Please!
These two addresses get me to Yahoo Classic with either Safari or Firefox. The second one may be a bit faster. When I have called up the website, I save it as a bookmark and then use that as my homepage or as one of my opening tabs.
Thanks to suggestion by Yosemitesam.
http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome
http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch
Good Luck,
Jim
Polliwog: sign into your email account and then click on “Help” On the “Help” page, look for the tab the says “Contact Us.” Then you should be able to send them your request.
Thanks
Not a Y-mail user, actually (I just keep a couple of addresses for anonymity), but this reminds me of Steve Jobs’ way of dealing with things.
Jobs felt that it wasn’t the customer’s job to know what they want, and that Apple was in the business of figuring that out. So he never bothered with focus groups or other customer outreach.
Yahoo has employed a similar technique, providing the customer with what they felt the customer needed.
Jobs knew what he was doing.
Yahoo…. maybe not so much.
It is still better than Gmail or Hotmail…