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Right Side Panel (Contacts, Starred, Etc)

There should be a way to remove the contact box on the right. This feature is useful when two windows (one is yahoomail) are displayed side-by-side. During these situations, window real estate is valuable.

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  • Luke Freeman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just go back to the previous version. Nothing else matters. We like Yahoo, not this Gmail clone you've made.

  • Anne N Chapman commented  ·   ·  Report

    TODAY Please:
    1. Add a hide button for the Starred Email box, it takes up to much visual space.
    2. Return the received date that emails have arrived. i.e. Today, or what every date they arrived, that was so useful and I was unaware of how I relied upon it when prioritizing emails.
    3. Increase the length of the subject line visable for unread emails. It is much shorter now and hard to decide if you need to open the email or delete or wait with such a short subject line visable.

  • Michael Zwerin commented  ·   ·  Report

    all that empty screen space on the right devoted to <starred> <contacts> & <more> is useless, counter-productive, and driving me to use another online email account instead of yahoo mail. I've been on yahoo mail since the mid-90s! This is, by far, the worst redesign yet.

    The (yet again WASTED SPACE) for priorities, offers, social, & newsletters is **** that (from reading the posts here) that nobody wants. Please get rid of it.

    The point here is that Mail Basic was a great, clean, simple user-interface, & speedy. this new mess is not. Resizable message viewing windows was just right. Please restore the Basic Mail user-interface.

  • AdminYahoo Mail Team (Yahoo Mail Team, Yahoo) commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Andy, yes we are working on designs and code to allow our users to minimize the right hand column. It's coming! For now, we're going to merge your thread into the main one requesting this. Thanks for your feedback!

  • Andy Hardy commented  ·   ·  Report

    the "Star messages" box takes up too much screen real estate on my small macbook. Please provide an option to remove it so that I can see more of the message subject.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    In general, I don't like this new format. On my phone I lose too many emails because i barely touch them and they slide to delete. I'm trying to look. On my laptop, the box to the right is not needed and I can't open emails properly when things are attached. I also cannot empty my spam file all at once and the categories to the left I don't like the arrangement. I've used Yahoo for around 25 years, and this is the first time I've considered no longer using it.

  • palika benton commented  ·   ·  Report

    I want to control what I see and don't see. If you have an option - fine - but i pay for this. It should be up to the user to determine what they see and what they don't. I don't want to see the right side panel unless I want to - because i want more real estate for my emails.

    I also want the options of what I can choose to be in the right side panel - drafts, contacts, starred, previews etc.

    FURTHERMORE I SHOULD HAVE THE OPTION TO HAVE OR NOT HAVE EVERYTHING. LIKE FULL CONTROL OF MY FOLDERS, FULL CONTROL OF COLORS I WANT FOR READ OR UNREAD EMAILS, FULL CONTROL TO MOVE AN EMAIL FROM ANY LOCATION TO THE LOCATION I WANT. FULL OPTION TO HAVE AI OR NOT. I DONT' WANT TO BE DICTATED TO ABOUT MY EMAIL INTERFACE.

  • bogdan Stefan Plesa commented  ·   ·  Report

    The Starred/Contacts section is occupying one third of available screen. Whoever vetted this design needs to have their bonuses revoked.

    Please give us an option to hide this so we can read our emails .

  • Larry Urbanski commented  ·   ·  Report

    I do not need, or want the right side panel. It wastes space, it is in my way. For those who do not use it allow it to be removed. For a PC user like me it is useless.

  • Shelly Goodman commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would like to remove (or the option to remove) the right side section with the previews. It makes my email section not fit on my screen. My laptop screen is 20" and I have my screen zoom set to the normal 100%. I only need to see my contact & other starred stuff rarely. I don't need it to always be up on the right side. I don't need the preview emails either.

  • Michael Hardiman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please allow an option to remove this big empty box on the right, it takes up space.

  • Geoffrey Riquier commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ability to remove the right panel. You should be able to remove the right panel, on a 15" screen the real estate is very limited and having this take up 1/3 of the screen is wasted space.

  • Juan Perdomo commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't like the two letters in a circle beside the senders email. This distracts me. I don't like the new Standard Version because you have the box for the star messages on the right. This takes space from the page. And what if I don't want to star any messages? Then this box is useless and takes space.

  • Ryan Schumm commented  ·   ·  Report

    Have the ability to remove/Hide the "STARED" Emails located on the right side. This would allow a bigger page for the email box.

  • Carol J Ramsey commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please remove the auto opening side bar showing starred items from the email screen. I cannot see the text in the email without move the slide bar and it is irritating - seems a step backwards in technology to me.
    I dont want to have to open every email to see the basic content - this side bar is IN MY WAY

  • David Caplan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please delete the obtrusive right side panel, which takes valuable screen width away from the email section, and that contains only redundant starred and contacts that are already in the functional left side panel. The right side panel makes the new Yahoo email dysfunctional.

  • Whitney Anderson commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new version of Yahoo does not allow us to minimize the Contacts section. So the actual space to read an open email is quite small. I contacted the service department and was completely shocked to learn that you can't shrink or hide this section. Even though it takes up close to a third of the space on my computer screen. I do not need to see my contacts list all the time. Please fix this.

  • Samantha Wood commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is the MOST freaking annoying thing in the entire world, ok maybe not the world but with Yahoo mail. And the fact that we can't disable it? Are you kidding me? It's completely useless to me (and probably a lot of others).

  • Lynn Dodsworth commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just let me get rid of it. What a waste of A LOT of spacw.

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