Liam Gets a Workout in the New Mail

October 2nd, 2007 at 9:38 am

Yeah but the Flash 9.0 (or higher) reqiurement is very limiting. I can’t sign in to chat! Can’t see Liam playing around either. My problem is I sign in using other computers sometimes (like now) so when the one I’m using has an old version of Flash, I can’t use chat. I don’t want to have to download Flash everytime.

October 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 am

Be happy your only problem is a flash problem. Loads of us are still waiting for the update itself. I mean, awesome those animations exist, but all these self-congratulatory messages are kicking sand in the face of those still waiting…

October 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 am

Ryan, you’re representing my favorite email site. Please help build and maintain peoples’ confidence in Yahoo’s professionalism by proofreading before posting.

Aside from that, I enjoy reading what you write, and definitely loved the Flash theme song reference!

October 2nd, 2007 at 10:05 am

Instead of screwing around with cartoon figures, perhaps you should focus on making real improvements. (Did you not receive the peanut butter manifesto?). One helpful enhancement would be “categories” for the new Yahoo! address book.

October 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 am

the nut mail sucks! tried it twice, just will drive you nuts!!!!!!

October 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 am

Wow, that’s really weak. I’ve been a paying for Y!mail plus for years and I still don’t have the latest version. I love Yahoo’s products, but really, get rid of the cute kiddie animations and role the product out to people who support your company.

October 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 am

I’m pretty sure Ryan doesn’t read these comments or if he does they have no influence on what he writes about. It looks like he’s taking his cues from Yahoo! and only tooting the New Mail’s horn rather than addressing any problems that customers might have. I think this “blog” is just a veiled advertising effort, not somewhere to come and comment if you want to be heard. I’m not sure where that would be.

October 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am

I think it’s nice.

October 2nd, 2007 at 11:11 am

What about Opera Users?

I like Liam.

October 2nd, 2007 at 11:24 am

I think yahoo’s designers should take a few cues from google’s success and focus on simple, clean and quick-functioning products. Adding a dancing “Liam” is in my view not an enhancement but more probably an annoyance. Less is more. Come on yahoo! Please don’t follow microsoft’s lead by adding cutesy animations (i.e., cartoon paper clips) and then promote them as “exciting.” I am a yahoo! stockholder and would like to believe in a strong future for the company.

October 2nd, 2007 at 12:32 pm

Got to agree with Jim that effort could be better spent fixing problems, such as the scoreboard being uneditable for months. I would also like to be able to edit a saved email.
But then again, Ryan’s (is this a real person?) emails are merely just yahoo patting itself on the back for something most people could care less about.

October 2nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm

We really don’t need Liam, the animations really do not help, waste bandwidth and irritate. MS practically ditched Clipit, I suggest Liam is retired before the roll out is concluded.

October 2nd, 2007 at 1:12 pm

I can’t imagine having darn dancing Liams. I mean, Liam is cool and all, but on my slow connection, and even here at work on the fast one, I am sure it is just going to be an annoyance. Maybe I should be glad that I haven’t been “migrated” yet!

October 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

man that is so cool, i can hardly wait to get the new mail! hehe

October 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 pm

When is the new yahoo mail beta going to be finished ! My problem is I keep getting on yahoo mail beta loading yahoo mail ! so I switched back to the original mail.

October 2nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm

I wish you would try to improve the site itself. may times I have difficulty just connecting to the email server and sometimes I get an erro when sending emails. I never used to have these problmes with the old interface. I am very disappointed at this unstabble version.

October 2nd, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Please, keep the fancy stuff to a minimum. Provide options to turn off the fancy stuff. Put in useful things, like tags or the ability to comment on mail and store the comment with the mail. Fixing the spam folder so it can be searched.

October 2nd, 2007 at 3:16 pm

I had try LIAM out for a few days. I was starting to have problems with LIAM system than my current email system. Right now, I am much more happier with my current email system rather than LIAM. I hope that yahoo company convinces me to try LIAM for the second time. I had like some of the features but yahoo has a lot of work to do. nikki

October 2nd, 2007 at 3:24 pm

I tried the New Mail Beta and dumped it because of the lousy Address book operation. I now tried the new Mail and it is just as bad. I dumped it. I agree with the other unhappy users about animations. Fix the program first. I have been a user of Yahoo mail for years and I pay my dues. Take care of the user.

October 2nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm

More waste of bandwidth, slower service, etc.
Remember, we don’t ALL have T-1 lines.

October 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 pm

Man-I’ve been a Yahoo! mail user for 10 years now, and a premium subscriber for 5, but I am really getting ticked off with this Beta/New mail. Quit the cutesy stuff and focus on the real issues–like not being able to paste things into messages, slow load times, and not being able to completely opt out of messenger. I’m already using your product so quit the ridiculous sales pitch.

October 2nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm

hey, i think its really kool. i was wondering how did my yahoo changed but it’s a good change……i want my other email to change too…i love it so far

October 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 pm

Don’t need extra animations or fancy icons, just a simple-to-use interface and a quick-loading site. Simpler is better, make that your mantra, Yahoo! Liam needs to retire to another site, perhaps that silly thing called Bix. Anyone else see that new Y! idea?

October 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 pm

i was an oddpost.com subscriber before yahoo bought them out a few years back..

i’m still waiting for yahoo mail to be as good as the oddpost interface.

differences are welcomed, and obviously realistic, but one thing that was promised was a better spam filter.

with oddpost i got a few pieces of spam a week, if that. with yahoo i get at least 6 a day, the same ones repeating even after reporting with the “spam” button.

get it together!

October 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 am

My fear is that Liam’s appearances on the Y.Mail pages will be like all the other Flash advertising that we’re forced to look at. Lots of flash and sizzle that accomplishes little more than to annoy the bejeezus out of us. Fortunately, I can use my ad blocker to eliminate most of those kinds of annoying ads. But I have to wonder if I’ll be able to eliminate Liam if he gets to be too much of a pain!

October 3rd, 2007 at 1:04 am

Yeah, thanks Ryan. I mean, we hardly have enough pointless, irritating, bandwidth-sucking, messy, images flashing all over the screen.

Whoever made this decision should get a job at Microsoft.

October 3rd, 2007 at 5:09 am

Stop the ridiculous Microsoft-like animations and give the Yahoo users (the ones who pay your bills) a real Email interface-simple and fast.

October 3rd, 2007 at 5:44 am

IT,S EASY IN HANDLING AND GRAPHICS ARE GOOD AND FULL OF OPTION

October 3rd, 2007 at 6:06 am

I do not have the new mail yet but I have tried using the beta for our business mail and found it hard to work with. I switched back to classic where my mail options at least work. If the new mail is like the beta, I think I’ll pass.

October 3rd, 2007 at 6:48 am

not really! it’s grrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat1 apart frm the fact that my sister can’t leave me alone

October 3rd, 2007 at 6:55 am

Thanks for the FREE e-mail service.

October 3rd, 2007 at 7:17 am

I do not see Liam.
I simply did not install Flash when I installed Firefox.
Internet Exploder 7 has the option available to turn Flash on or off at the double click of an icon. Guess where my browser is set.

October 3rd, 2007 at 8:12 am

I did not about this comment that the majority people in indonesia will scare organisation in overses. Example. everyplacement are distruction by crash. So victim and violence anywhere,everytime. what do you opinion friend?

October 3rd, 2007 at 8:21 am

Tried the beta several times on both my Desktop and Laptop. It has too many problems; too many error messages, slow loading messages, etc. I haven’t seen Liam and hope I never do. I’m back on the “standard” or “classic” (whatever you call it) email to stay until forced to accept new email. Hope it is fixed before then.

October 4th, 2007 at 10:22 am

Jim (post #4), funny you say categories as I just received my help request form Yahoo asking when the categories are coming back. I was told that the “lists” replaced them. Ughhhhh, mailing lists were there before. Soooo, it seems that Yahoo just dropped a feature that most cell phones and even Outlook supports. I’m not happy with this decision at all.

BTW, I’m STILL waiting on my mail upgrade here too! How about posting a blog entry on the transfering to the NON beta mail schedule? That would be a much more interesting blog entry.

October 4th, 2007 at 11:31 am

It’s ridiculous that the full version hasn’t been rolled out to those that pay for Yahoo Plus. I couldn’t care any less about Liam and Ryan posting about something as inane as this while many (most?) don’t even have the full service yet.

October 4th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

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October 5th, 2007 at 2:51 am

Yahoo is great. I love it now, i loved it before. I just would never send it to a grown up, or anyone i hoped to work for one day. Like MacDonalds, its very successful, but not everyone wants to take there date to a food service that serves dinner by a clown with a squirting water flower in label. There is room in this world for ALL mentalities. I mean, who is going to take over Vatican City when the Nazi Pope dies? Come on, Yahoo!

October 5th, 2007 at 4:27 am

I agree with most of the other posters. We DO NOT need bandwidth-draining nonsense. We need a stable email product. One that actually filters out spam properly. One that really allows us to organize our email - like REAL email client software does.

Here’s a secret for Yahoo!s marketing department, as well as their advertisers: I ignore ALL of the advertising you have bouncing around out there. Don’t waste my time and your money on it. It does no good.

October 7th, 2007 at 7:17 am

I tried the beta for two minutes. flash ads, etc, give me seizures; please don’t force us all to this, I’ll have to use another email. I couldn’t stand the background colors of the page, and hated the left column appearance. I want my present Yahoo categories for my contacts, etc. I do wish we could still paste a photo into email to send to relatives, as I hate all the steps now required; head injury years ago left me with all these problems. I can only afford dial-up, and it makes the pages turn veeery slooow, so don’t add all the extra garbage. My phone line sends 40 Kbps, though PC modem will handle much more.

October 11th, 2007 at 2:42 pm

I got the new Mail.. and I like it, but it’s a pity that the SMS function is currently not available in most countries. My Mail looks pretty much the same.. But I don’t see any Liams.. Not gonna complain about that, they are not an “improvement”..

Well my opinion is very simple ’cause I really don’t depend that much on Yahoo! Mail, I don’t use ALL of its functions, the only thing I want from a Mail is to send and receive messages. And the features like the Reading Pane and Drag-and-Drop messages to the folders are great for me.

I hope Yahoo! keeps improving, I’m happy with their progress ’cause they’ve satisfied my needs, unfortunately not everyone is happy with that, and it’s their right to be upset ’cause some of them are actually paying for the service. One thing I have to say though, is that you shouldn’t be too harsh on Ryan and the developers, haven’t you seen Windows Live Hotmail? I got it too and it’s just a BAD imitation of the Yahoo! Mail. The space distribution is horrible because of the huge ad banner on top of the page.. If I had to choose, of course I would go to Yahoo! without thinking twice, but I need these two accounts.

Keep working Ryan, you and the Yahoo! crew are doing great, I’m also loving the new My Yahoo! Beta I got yesterday, it’s amazing (and it’s just a Beta! How great will the final version be?). I’ve been using it EVERY DAY for over a year.

Have a nice day/night everyone

With Love,
Andreina

October 12th, 2007 at 5:06 am

Hey I need some help everybody has the new yahoo but I still got beta how do I get it to the new yahoo??

October 12th, 2007 at 6:21 am

I signed into my yahoo mail at work today and found that my chat no longer works without upgrading to the new flash. Since I don’t have permission to install this I am just out of luck… my sister, kids and california family all communicate with me through the week using the chat feature, but now I won’t be able to talk to my daughter or any one else there since I can’t update flash. This is stupid! I guess if I can come up with a few thousand dollars to pay for a computer and internet at home than I’m ok, but for crying out loud, this was a really stupid update and not servicing the Yahoo Community as a whole at all!

October 13th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

icant sing in the mail box from two day my password is right id is also right asking for url please help me fast

November 5th, 2007 at 5:41 am

cool, cool ,cool, simply cool

November 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am

I cannot see him!!!!!!!

December 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 am

i love my yahoo

July 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm

i cant even get on to beta so i personally have no idea who liam is.
FIX BETA YAHOO!!!!!!!!

July 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm

but yahoo is still awesome

August 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Hey I like your liam guy he is funny will you make more things for him to do?