When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange … the blog
- Posted July 17th, 2008 at 3:55 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
In the immortal words of the Brady kids:
“Autumn turns to winter and then winter turns to spring,
its not just a season, you know its goes for everything.”
So here I am to announce that the Yahoo! Mail blog has undergone some changes. Some you can probably see pretty easily, but others may be a little less obvious. I rolled out the changes last night, and will be making some other minor updates in the next week or so, but here are the highlights.
The most obvious change is the overall look. The header and colors are updated, and the whole blog is a little wider. I hope you all like the look.
Probably the most important changes though, are to the Comments section. We’ve added functionality for threaded comments. This means that if someone wants to respond directly to an earlier comment, they can do so and it will appear with the original.
This should make it much easier for me to address certain questions, as well as make it easier for all of you to share your thoughts and advice with each other.
Another big change to Comments is the fact that any comments from me will be highlighted. In the past you could look for my pic, but this will make it so much easier to find responses.
There will be more tweaks in the coming weeks, but those are the biggies. If you run across any glitches feel free to email them to me directly. In the meantime … don’t fight the tide, come along for the ride.
sha na na na na na na na, sha na na na na na
sha na na na na na na na, sha na na na na na
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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July 17th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Here is an example of the new administrator comments.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
And of course an example of a threaded response (that isn’t by an administrator).
July 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
this is cool.
can’t use an email address like libérté@yahoo.com?
July 17th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
The added functionality for the threaded comments is great, and makes it much easier to follow certain lines of discussion. I wish this was more widespread throughout the web. I hope this will be central to the way Yahoo plans to make itself more social in the coming months.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Yep, looks much better than the old diggs. Might have to set up something like this in my work space.
July 18th, 2008 at 4:47 am
waw,i really love the new look
good job
July 18th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Good to see that your priorities are in the right place: spruce up the blog while sending boilerplate ‘we hope you love our new features’ responses to people complaining about loss of functionality with the updated classic mail.
July 18th, 2008 at 6:58 am
I have used Yahoo as my home page for many years, with news feeds and Yahoo mail.
I had no serious problems until some cretin recently changed it.
Now the spam filter doesn’t work at all, it is hard for me to read, and it just looks bad.
I WANT MY OLD YAHOO BACK.
I have decided to start the tedious search for a new home page and mail server.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Me too. I WANT MY OLD YAHOO BACK.
July 18th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
marcia’s best season. by phar!!!!
July 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I think I would go with Marcia during season 4 (when she had the crush on her dentist)
-Ryan
July 19th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Hey! I logged in today,when I was writing an e-mail,I found a new sidebar called ” Stationery “,and it’s so fun.Thanks for the new feauture.
July 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
On the New Yahoo…….Stupid Question……..would someone explain to me the difference in Bookmarks and my IE Favorites? Are they the same thing? I’ve tried to read the Tutorials but the pages “aren’t available”.
If the bookmarks and my favorites are the same thing, what is the advantage to having bookmarks on My Yahoo home page when they are right at the top of my IE screen under Favorites.
If there is an advantage is there an easy way to not delete them from my Favorites but to also add them to Bookmarks on my home page?
Thanks for any help or suggestions. And remember you’re talking to a computer dummy!
July 21st, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Cheryl,
You wrote:
>On the New Yahoo…….Stupid Question……..would someone explain to me the difference in Bookmarks and my IE Favorites? Are they the same thing? I’ve tried to read the Tutorials but the pages “aren’t available”.
If the bookmarks and my favorites are the same thing, what is the advantage to having bookmarks on My Yahoo home page when they are right at the top of my IE screen under Favorites.
If there is an advantage is there an easy way to not delete them from my Favorites but to also add them to Bookmarks on my home page?<
If I understand your question correctly, the Yahoo Bookmarks are available to you from any computer with Internet access, whereas your favorites in IE are stored only on the computer you are using at the time. Add Bookmarks to your Yahoo page if you want them to be available to you from any computer. No need to delete them from your favorites list. If you seldom use another computer, there is little need to copy favorites to Yahoo Bookmarks.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Thank you, Ben. You explained it perfectly!!!!! I appreciate your response.
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Yes…Thanks Ben. I lagged
August 4th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
my computer got bumped an shut off how can i find the web sight that i was on. it was a free link an a way around match macking, singles thing. i am so new my friends made this web sight for me. how do i go about finding them again
July 20th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Nice one!
July 20th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Please fix the Search issue with ALL yahoo accounts. You can’t search old mails (like more than a few months old). This last piece of Yahoo is the only thing many people still come to yahoo. Can’t you see the urgency of this? Stop wasting time on new features but get the basic stuff working first!!! I can deal with all the Spams but losing the Search feature is really a deal breaker. Complain to Yahoo Help will fix only one account at a time! Man, how can Yahoo degraded so much in so little time.
July 20th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I like the new look of Ymail Blog. Nice job!
July 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Has anyone had anything odd happen when you update to the new Firefox (update 3.01 or something like that). My yahoo mail doesn’t act like it did before (can’t move e-mails from the spam folder, the only option is to delete them; e-mails don’t highlight when you click on the square; there’s no buttons to move e-mails to a different folder, etc.)
July 21st, 2008 at 2:23 am
Why do I and many others get a blank page when we try to cancel our Mail Plus subscriptions?
Are Yahoo deliberately trying to stop their customers cancelling ?
I’ve sent numerous emails to customer support but they never answer the questions I ask.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:26 am
Fix Yahoo Mail search!!! For God’s sakes, what good is unlimited storage space if you can’t find anything???
Or let yourselves get bought by Microsoft, so I can just leave you for good.
July 21st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
When you changed the blog URL, why didn’t you use a redirect on the old URL? I placed the links to the Mail and Group blogs and Moderator Central on my toolbar for easy use, but today I discovered that the Y mail blog link didn’t work– a redirect wouldn’t have left me wondering where in H the blog disappeared to!
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
RRR,
The redirect should be working. Can you tell me what URL you had stored in your bookmarks?
-Ryan
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
Focuse, Men, focuse….on the real product, not what’s aaround it…!
Real calendar? notepad? threadview “in” Yahoo! Mail?
f-o-c-u-s-e and stop the you-guys-have-to-wait-even-longer-to-see-what you-want buzz
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
I am copying/pasting a comment from an earlier post. I absolutely concur…….would it be possible to have the option of New Folder in the drop down list of folders?
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Cheryl,
Do you mean a folder within a folder?
-Ryan
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:37 pm
This is so annoying……..Ryan, please go to User Tip: Send messages to folders with a single keystroke topic: Read the first comment by AK Wong from July 10 at 6:34 PM. That is what I’m trying to ask you about.
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Hi Cheryl,
I’ve passed that along to the PM (product manager) and I’ll let you know if there is any news on it.
-Ryan
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Posting this message that was originally posted more than 24 hours ago for the 4th time. I am trying to concur with the below post.
August 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
thanks ill try it. sounds right.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
please I can’t see any thing on my emails , when i being sent mails , I can’t see any thing on my email box except for the adress that sent me the emails . I can’t see let alone read the emails I have been sent since yesterday . is yahoo having problems ? how can i solve this?
thanks
August 18th, 2008 at 5:54 am
hi my name is gabriel i will like to make a friend will you ok pls ok. my my email is gdonman@yahoo.com or gdrovou@yahoo.com or gabrielking2009@yahoo.com thank you and good buy.see you soon holp.