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  1. l didn't agree to be a beta tester. Just give me the old mail!

    Apparently I am being routed to the new "improved" email. Initially I get a screen with no email at all. Then after about 20 seconds, it asks if the process is too slow and offers the option to use basic mail. I select that and, AT LAST, I can proceed.

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  2. I have never in my life received as much spam as I have over the last 2 months? What's going on. I do not search does companies.

    Spam, over 100 spams in a day. Yet, important emails also go to spam. So I have to waste my time looking through spam so I don't delete or put them on unroll me list which by the way doesn't work. Every day important emails go to my spam. What's up Yahoo? This is so annoying to say the least.

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  4. Fix Contacts page

    I've been unable to add a Contact for several days. Please fix it.

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  6. How do I send an email to the Yahoo help desk?

    How do I send an email to the Yahoo help desk?

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  7. What a crew of hacks this Yahoo systems "team" must be. Nothing works like it should.

    Carry on, hacks! Ditto for the user "service" -- 2nd rate all the way.

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  8. Why are my e-mail being F*CKING shadow-banned?

    Why are my e-mails being FCKING shadow-banned now? This has started like a week ago and the date today is Friday, January 19, 2018 as I write this! I have visually documented every occurrence for legal purposes, including this post! What the fck is wrong with you Yahoo!?

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  9. i m happytony@yahoo.com, i have an email cant download. title: viper chanllenge 2018. pls help to check.

    i m happytony@yahoo.com, i have an email cant download. title: viper chanllenge 2018. pls help to check.

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  10. accept the fact new mail is terrible and be brave enough to accept direct communication instead of "B.S. Forum"

    Take direct communication instead of B.S. Forum on new mail. It's terrible. Stop making me reload basic mail every day. Don't improve basic. It's fine as it is.

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  11. How can I add a new contact to my contact list? dsbunn@yahoo.com

    Need to add a new contact? There is no place for this. What's has happened to Yahoo? I don't want to change my email, but I will have no other course of action if I can't add contacts. It is my sister I want to add, so this is VERY Important!!! dsbunn@yahoo.com

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  12. I cant even get on my email...it lets me log in but can't load anything or see any emails...what happened?

    Fix my email...can't even read my emails now...worked fine until yesterday...what happened?

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  15. Easier to use then this new yahoo mail very confusing

    When i come into yahoo to sign in, im always signed in. I uncheck the box to keep me unsigned in but, when i come in to sign into yahoo that check mark is right there. Fix it please.

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  16. Please allow a change to an invalid base name (disposable addresses)

    I was going to try setting up a disposable address. The screen to set up the base name was confusing. After trying several variations, I wanted to see if the problem was just my selection of the base name, so I hit some random keys. It took my base name as "lsdjkf". It NEVER gave me a confirmation screen (aka "You are about to set your base name to 'lsdjkf', do you want to continue?") Now, it seems that there is NO way for me to change it. Is this correct? If so, this is stupid. Now I will never…

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  18. Tried to send a 10MB file and it failed every time, had to use my Gmail!!

    Your page said I could send up to 25MB, maybe you should try checking on this!!!

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  19. The moving ads on the sides causes the email to freeze intermittently. This makes composing emails extremely difficult!

    Get rid of the moving ads on the sides which cause the email site to freeze intermittently. Among other things, this makes composing emails extremely difficult! When I am trying to type an email, the keyboard freezes every time each ad loads. It takes forever to finally type a single word. Horrible!

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  20. I have a problem. When I open a new window the bars show up with nothing in them. They used to tell me which window was what.

    I don't know which is which as I have had 3 different ones!! The first is just a long list of emails, the old version. Another one has popped up with a split screen and I hate it. The third one has a list but all divided according to day/date. I like this one. How can I keep it?

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