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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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  • Scott Pederson commented  ·   ·  Report

    I have both Yahoo and Gmail - Gmail does NOT take up this much desktop space for a column of starred emails, or contacts. Some may use it regularly, so leave it an option. But why would you make this mandatory for those who don't use these features?

  • Morard commented  ·   ·  Report

    on a laptop, the e-mail panel, with its left stack and right preview is ridiculously small. Half of the screen is useless and one cannot see e-mails properly.

  • John Gamboa commented  ·   ·  Report

    I want to minimize/eliminate the starred e-mails/contacts field that is rendered on the right side of my e-mail home page. I don't use it and it wastes too much space on my GUI and I don't want it. I called help desk and they did not know how to minimize it.

  • Duane Williams commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't like how the starred and contacts column takes up so much room. I don't care to look at these all the time. I would much prefer to have that room for the body of the email. I wouldn't mind a tab that would pull that info up and then recede when I was done with it.

  • Michael Yoshida commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please remove or have the option to remove the third column with the Starred email. I can only read part of the center section with the actual email content while using a desktop or laptop computer without having to scroll left/ right to read an email. The new layout is so inefficient for getting through my email.

    I have now moved to just using apple email application on my desktop since the yahoo mail internet options is so horrible with the changes.

    So, so bad now.

  • Cheryl Kuhel commented  ·   ·  Report

    I understand the need to have ads in order to keep non-plus mail free, but the ads are never as wide as the pane, and was narrower in the older version. Please consider narrowing the pane to allow more real estate for actual mail reading.

  • Bernadette Margel commented  ·   ·  Report

    How do I get rid of the pop-up box on the right-hand side of the screen?

  • Mike DiDomenico commented  ·   ·  Report

    I need the inbox section (the list of emails) to dominate the screen. this right panel is all dead space and i'll never use those options. please make a way to remove the contact box

  • Jeff Conrad commented  ·   ·  Report

    This Right Side Panel (Contacts, Starred, Etc.) is what has prevented me from using the new Yahoo! Mail and I keep switching back and forth to see if you've given us a way to collapse it. Nothing has happened yet, but now today you've also removed my ability to switch back.

    Not a very nice thing to do to a paying customer. Yes, I pay for ad-free Yahoo! Mail and I have been for over a decade! I would appreciate being given the ability to switch back to the old Yahoo! Mail again.

    I don't mind switching back and forth and giving you folks feedback, but forcing a paying customer to be a UX QA Engineer for you without pay is not the way to do it.

  • Gary Dunn commented  ·   ·  Report

    The Starred Contacts box on the right works to defeat the primary purpose of an email reader which is reading your email messages. With no way to eliminate it or reduce or collapse it you cannot view your email messages in their full width making this new version painful to use.

  • Salman Ghani commented  ·   ·  Report

    I understand its for a push to have customers pay for ads removal but still, this is ridiculous! There's hardly any space for the message list in center.

    Mail plus user here.

  • Hilary Maye commented  ·   ·  Report

    Inbox is TOO small on a laptop. Ad in side panel needs to be smaller.

  • stev wei commented  ·   ·  Report

    At the very least, we should have the choice to remove it or use it. WHY is this window FORCED on us, with no choice about it being there??? It forces me to horizontally scroll just to read an email. So why would it be there, taking up vital real estate??? Please give us a choice to remove it or leave it, so different people can make this a useable service still. Otherwise, I and many like me, will have to find another email service to use.

  • stev wei commented  ·   ·  Report

    Main screen does NOT need the window taking up 30% of the screen with "Starred, Contacts and MORE". It's a waste of space please remove it!

  • Juan Miguel Garcia Lopez commented  ·   ·  Report

    It is valuable real state and those lists are useless.

    Generally speaking, please give power to users to tweak their UI. Do not impose your view on users.

  • Damir Uzelac commented  ·   ·  Report

    this is critical or I will switch to google email

  • Damir Uzelac commented  ·   ·  Report

    please do this, we all want more space for main email window

  • Damir Uzelac commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please rid of right side panel or make it smaller, or even possibility to hide. It is too big and take space from email main window

  • Lori E Carson commented  ·   ·  Report

    All the right side does is shrink the space to see actual e-mails. Mine is blank, making it doubly useless! Why did you even change your mail?

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