mark as read
Before the latest update, we could check any number of unread mails and hit "k" as a hot key to mark them as "read". Now we have to go through the drop-down to do it. Bring back the hot key!
Andy Kemp
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Mihai Vulpoi
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TL;DR: After recommending Yahoo mail for years, I'm quitting because of idiot stunts like this one - replacing the "k" keyboard shortcut like the incompetent managers/UX/developers that you are.
Long version (and, believe me, I never write feedback to products I use because it's a waste of my time, but Yahoo mail has been in my heart for years and I have to get this off my chest):
I've been praising Yahoo mail to anyone saying any other mail client is better since... since I've started using email (I'm 33 years old).
Here's why I have to say "Goodbye" to Yahoo mail and seems like Yahoo altogether:
- first of all, this comment box I'm typing this feedback into is 5 lines high - don't I deserve an text box that I can at least resize? It's a basic html element
- the Yahoo mail interface is sloppy, unmaintained, buggy allover (but it was still in my heart like that old t-shirt you keep wearing even if the wholes in it get bigger and bigger with every wash)
- you're removed right click on navigation elements and replaced it with that **** button that I don't want to click
- refresh takes forever, ****!
- icons that appear on hover - every 7-8th time I click on an email to read it, I trigger a search. What a bummer :(
- the gmail look-alike initiative was left incomplete. Not saying it was good or bad, but you guys just dropped while in progress.
- your SPAM filter has always been ****, but I've been hanging in there despite of this trivial feature that would have made my experience better
(somehow, I have this feeling that Yahoo as a company is the place where only junior UX designers work) :(I really wanted to leave this feedback to you because I loved Yahoo mail until I saw you removed the 'k' keyboard shortcut from toggling read/unread emails.
- well this does it! enough is enough! this is the last idiot stunt you will ever pull on me.Who considered assigning "k" to "mark unread", but "Shift+k" to "mark as read"?
Who considered that replacing "k" as a toggle with this ****?
Whoever it was, please contact me and give me an explanation because you caused a 10+ year user to quit Yahoo because of it.
And if you will contact me - I'm working as a Product Owner and UX designer in an IT company, creating products, features, creating wireframes and designing interfaces. I'm adding this information so that you know what kind of user I am, besides sticking to Yahoo for so long until now.Jesus... I've been praising you EVERY **** time anyone was mentioning any other mail client. I was ******** all over gmail using that flat material design and integrating chat in the email client. Actually I was a bit jealous that they did that with the chat - I've been a power user of the Yahoo messenger (as Windows application) my entire youth and I guess I wished you guys at least copy gmail if you didn't have the vision to come up with the idea before them.
****, I'm so disappointed with you.
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Naheed Bilgrami
commented
Adding my vote. Very annoying not to be able to use the k hot key.
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Anonymous
commented
I totally agree! I used to use the "k" shortcut key all the time! Please bring it back!
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Mike Carter
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Seems like the behavior has reversed for the hotkey where 'k' now changes to 'Mark as Unread' after many years of 'k' making the selected emails 'Mark as Read'.
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Bree James
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Please please, give me back my "k" hot key for "mark read!"
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Adi Somesan
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I want back the hotkeys, K for example for "mark as read".