I filed many feedback notices every time I encountered annoying and disruptive issues with the “new version” of Yahoo Email during the time the feedback window was there; then it disappeared. Now I am not sure this list of issues that are frustrating and time wasting is getting to the right team. Apparently, the feedback was ignored and never responded to. And no changes have been made to the new version. Yahoo should make the prior version available to anyone who desires it. That action would probably be enthusiastically received by a vast majority of long-term clients. Below is a partial list of significantly disruptive changes that have extended my time managing a large amount of incoming email by almost double.
Too many popups everywhere, they are not helpful, they hide whatever it floats above, hard to move past them. And they hover too long, so my ongoing typing gets diverted by popups that show up almost anywhere with no trigger, they disrupt my time working through my emails.
Making all the activity and navigation choices popups that are nowhere near the results, like the star trigger is far right, the result is far left, difficult and time consuming to work with.
Summarizing “other folders” into a choice to bring up a shortened list is a waste of time and effort, the older version had the list shown down the left side at all times, making the other folders available to scroll down to and makes management much more productive.
The search options in mail folders is shortened to three items, not the 6 or 7 that were in the previous version and provided much more effective searching all folders, certain folders, time constraints, words in the subject or in the body, etc. The new version is mush less helpful and less powerful for users.
The preferences for display of emails used to have about 9 choices with a single click on the preferences box. Now it shows only three options, and another click to display the rest of them. That is a waste of time, and makes it longer and more difficult to rapidly review and manage my emails.
Prior version used to highlight selected groups of emails to make management much easier. Without the highlight on selected lines it takes longer to manage selected groups of emails. This has lengthened the time spent working through a volume of emails.
The size of the tiles and preview bits of emails is in much smaller print than in the prior version, but the spacing of lines is farther apart, possibly due to that strange circle in front of each line. The impact result is less emails per screen (18 vs 24) but with smaller script making it harder to read and more scrolling to work through folders. And hovering over the subject shows the entire subject, but at about half the font size it used to be, making it almost impossible to read easily.
Bottom line, almost all the changes made between the prior version and the “newer” one are not helpful, they are disruptive and time wasting. I would welcome the return of the prior version and be eternally grateful. The changes made for the “newer” version appear to be childish, disruptive, less useful, and almost comical, like someone is trying to change it for very young children who would be fascinated by pretty circles and amazing popups. I do not need that kind of junk on my screen.