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  1. I CAN NOT SEE THE NEW ****** EMAIL WITH OUT HAVING TO HAVE EXTRA LIGHTS ON BECAUSE THE FORMAT SUCKS!!!!!

    THE NEW AND IMPROVED EMAIL IS NEITHER. IT IS HARD TO SEE AND IT DOESN'T WORK. WHAT IDIOT THOUGHT IT NEEDED TO BE CHANGED? DO YOU WANT PEOPLE LIKE ME TO HAVE TO FILE A COMPLAINT WITH THE ADA BECAUSE YOU IDIOTS CAN NOT ASK WHAT WE NEED INSTEAD OF WHAT YOU NEED TO VALIDATE YOUR JOBS? YOU INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO SWITCH BACK TO BASIC EMAIL IS A JOKE IT DOESN'T WORK IT IS A WILD GOOSE CHASE. WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A "F**KING" CLUE WHAT WE WANT OR NEED. I AM GOING TO CHECK…

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  2. I want the old version. and pls. respect the users' comment

    If you let us vote, please respect our votes for the old version.!!!

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  3. LEAVE MY EMAIL ALONE!!!!!!!

    I PREFER MY OLD SETTINGS!!!!!

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  4. It doesn't need to be improved. Most commenters agree.

    So how about leaving it alone and letting us enjoy the platform? What's in it for Yahoo to upset its users?

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  5. Should be able to save our setting and not have to reset every login. More BS.

    Should be able to save our setting and not have to reset every login. More BS.

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  6. I really hate how people decide how we must do things and force us to change as if you really care about what we think. BS

    I really hate how people decide how we must do things and force us to change as if you really care about what we think. BS

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  8. UNAUTHORIZED EMAIL SWITCH

    HOW MANY TIMES DO "WE" THE ACTUAL USERS HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR SWITCHING THE EMAIL TO YOUR ****** "NEW AND IMPROVED" NOT!!!! IS A ******** THING TO DO??? THE NEW VERSION SUCKS DOES NOT WORK AND IT IS INCREDIBLY BALLSY OF YOU TO THINK YOU CAN DO IT WITH OUT REPERCUSSIONS. IF YOU THINK PEOPLE HATE FACEBOOK YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION BECAUSE YOU ARE RIGHT UP THERE AS NUMBER 2 ON THE IF I COULD SWITCH MY BUSINESS EMAIL TO SOMETHING ELSE I WOULD IN A HEARTBEAT LIST.

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  9. You need to lose the "new and ******" email page. Don't need it, don't want it, and I will change it every time back to the original.

    Fire the retards that think changing things for the sake of change is a brilliant way to look busy in their cubes. They're a waste of your resources and money and will drive your customers away.

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  11. With the switch, can't click on address from prior email to send message...

    It is impressive how disruptive of daily living the switch to the basic version has turned out to be. Replying and forwarding do odd formatting of the email, so that it looks a mess. The lack of continuous email exchanges fouls legislative communication. The type is too thin and light. There is no amount of money to pay to have the Classic, is there. -- Even here, even though already signed in to my email account, I have to sign in on this page? The email had been just right. -- and why am I asked to "sign in with…

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  12. GO BACK TO THE BASIC VERSION OF YAHOO MAIL OR GIVE AN OPTION!

    Your new version of Yahoo Mail is H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E!!!!! Why would you take away something that has worked for so many years and try to fix it with garbage??? At least give the option to use the Basic Mail....the new version is so really pathetic!!!

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  13. I hate, hate, the new yahoo mail.

    I did not change to it and I want the old version back. The colors and the themes are gone.

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  14. This is ******* unbelievable. I had my AT&T account accessible via y

    What the **** happened to my AT&T emails? My account is gone!!!! I cannot access it via the Yahoo emails (which just shows yahoo emails, but not my att emails). When I go to my AT&T account it puts me back into the yahoo emails. Where the **** is my AT&T account!!!! I had it for years until yesterday. What did you guys do!!!??? I cannot get to a person here but am caught in a stupid selection ****

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  15. I'm done. This new email is ****!!!!!!!! I can't do anything with it

    Now I really am going to find another email system. This is worthless. You can't do anything with this junk like you could with the old system. It's a real shame because I've had yahoo mail for a really long time. I'll take all of my emails somewhere else. I'm tired of fighting this. This "new" system is a BIG step backwards.

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  16. I'm done. This new email is ****!!!!!!!! I can't do anything with it

    Now I really am going to find another email system. This is worthless. You can't do anything with this junk like you could with the old system. It's a real shame because I've had yahoo mail for a really long time. I'll take all of my emails somewhere else. I'm tired of fighting this. This "new" system is a BIG step backwards.

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  17. email change

    For everyone who HATES this new email... the classic is gone and no longer available. We will all have to live with it or change providers. So not cool at all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  18. I want my classic mail back!!!!

    I want my classic mail back!!!!

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  19. tab metaphor was reason to use yahoo mail

    "new" basic mail is a reason to leave yahoo mail
    the tab metaphor to have multiple messages open at the same time was a key reason to use yahoo mail.
    The next message and previous message buttons are greyed out in win 7 ie11 and or missing entirely.
    I guess it is time to move to Hotmail as my primary

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  20. New mail also makes Freedom of Information-related communication difficult.

    In addition to the new email format being counterintuitive and too light to read easily, to and from emails with the same party require choosing that feature. When dealing with Freedom of Information requests, etc., the continuity of communication must be seen and as free from manipulation as possible.

    Also, when forwarding email - for example, the email address was wrong and you do not want to have to rewrite everything - you have to reinsert the addressee.

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