Differentiation Between Unread and Read Emails
It is much harder to differentiate between unread and read email. The background color for read emails should be a higher contrast tot he unread ones.
Uri Reich
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Michekaard Lafontant
commented
It is very difficult to differentiate "Read" and "Unread" messages with this update. Could the "Unread" messages use either a different font or a different color? The current design does not "bold" the "unread" messages enough in dark mode.
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Scott King
commented
Using the default theme (haven't tried others), when I click on a message in the list, a preview is shown and the row turns grey showing it's read. A small purple indicator at the far left od the row indicates the active row. The challenge is that when deleting the message using the buttons on the right end of the row, it's not easy to tell if you are deleting the currently selected message. The entire row should have some sort of highlight, like an outline or different background colour, or the currently selected indicator should be at both ends of the row. My preference would be a different coloured box around the row.
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T Vanderpost
commented
I don't mind the new look. But not sure why the read emails are a dark grey, they look like to me that I have not read them, and I really find it confusing. Is there a way to make unread bold and read ones not bolded. Was easier on the eyes in the old version. Will keep trying this but I am really struggling with this simple concept
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James Clark Biard
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Not sure where to put this suggestion. I really don't enjoy having the emails that have been read presented with a darker background. (I'm using light mode.) Bold / not bold is plenty sufficient for my needs. Please provide a way to select how you want emails to appear in the inbox once they have been read.
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Dilber Huseynova
commented
Dear Yahoo Mail Support Team,
I appreciate your continued efforts to improve the Yahoo Mail experience. However, I find the recent upgrade to the new email interface a bit confusing—particularly the way read and unread emails are displayed. The current system, where unread emails stay white and read emails turn gray, makes it harder for me to manage my inbox efficiently compared to the previous, more classical design.
I kindly request that you consider offering users the ability to switch between the new and classic versions, so each person can choose what works best for them. Providing this option would go a long way in supporting users with different preferences and habits.
Thank you for your attention and for all the services you provide.
Best regards,
Dilber Huseynova -
Bennett Werth
commented
Can I revert back to the old, normal view of the list of Read & Unread messages? The new version highlights read messages with a dark highlighter. Unread msgs look like normal msgs. It's confusing and different from all other email apps and normal html and windows control methods.
There's no highlighter or outline in the msg list to let me know which message is currently chosen. I have to scroll all the way back to the top of the message text to see the subject line and then look through the msg list for the msg that has the same subject. But wait, I have several msgs with the same subject text. I guess I'll have to compare time stamps?
Why not just do what it used to do? The unread msgs are bold. The read msgs are un-bolded. And the currently selected msg has a highlight or outline around it. That's a neat idea. Let's do that.
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Dmitri Sologoub
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I don't like darkening the messages that are read. This makes it next to impossible to understand which message you're looking at right now. I know there's a subtle blue bar to the right of the message in the Inbox, but making read messages darker causes havoc.
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Lon Taylor
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The gray highlighting on almost every email is really not good. I can't see which email I'm reading and the last version of my inbox was better. The right side panel is also useless.
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Greed Hellscream
commented
On yahoo mail:
- It is difficult to distinguish between read and unread message.
- The top bar had delete, move, spam options but now I have to delete each email individually.
- Sidebar is fine but previous version showed more information. I do not like the dropdown method. -
F M
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It is impossible to tell which email you are currently viewing in the preview panel - The email that is currently selected should be a different color than the others in the list.
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Gary Poloso
commented
Love the new email client , except hate, hate, hate how the emails get shaded when they are read. For me shaded means done, not read. When I am done with an email I file it. Is there a way I can change the settings from shaded to the normal, Not Bold look.
Please shading means done, not read.Thank you
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Deborah Autorino
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I don't want Read messages shown in gray; it makes them hard to see. Please make it possible to turn this off.
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Deborah Plaia
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Your new version of yahoo mail is not reader friendly. Every single line of each email is the same color gray. As a result, when you are looking at emails, one email blends into the next. It is extremely frustrating scanning the emails and trying to decide which one you need and which ones you don't, which one you want to save, which one can be tossed. It is terrible. Alternate the colors of the lines so that you can distinguish one email from the next.
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Patrick McLemore
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When you read a message, it changes to gray in the inbox. At least in light mode. That makes it look like I have multiple messages selected. I'd prefer it if the only messages that stood out were unread messages, and any read messages' background would match the color of the appearance you're in. So for light mode, the background of a read message in the inbox would be white, not gray.
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Michelle DeVille
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Can you please go back to if it is read in email is is WHITE. If you haven't read it - it is GRAY. Why did this switch? It's soooo confusing! I hate it.
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Dawn Boren
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I hate the new tiny little color bar at the right that indicates what email you are on in the inbox. Go back to a full soft highlight to designate what email you are on. I can barely notice the little bar.
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MMM
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The inbox layout is horrible as it's so hard to tell which email is selected and which one I'm deleting. I don't like the grey outline for the whole row. Bolding new emails was way better vs highlighting the whole row in grey. Then the one selected has a tiny purple vertical bar which is so hard for your eyes to find quickly. It took me at least 2x as long today to go through and read and delete/respond to my emails today. Please change it back.
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Iwan Streichenberger
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Make it much easier to see in left column which message is previewed in middle panel. Right now, there is only a light purple bar next to the message displayed. Give the option (at least) to color the full message to make it easy to find it quickly. Very frustrating to lose time trying to see where you are in the left scrolling list of messages
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Herbert Neusiedler
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My father in law is old and his eyesight is failing. He is finding the fact that already read emails are showing over a grey background really annoying, as the resulting reduced contrast means he cannot read the subject anymore. It would help if there were a way to indicate already read emails using another method.
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JustSomeGuy
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the new email inbox (and other folders) is awful to look at. Unread messages are in bold, and they blend right in with the gray stripes that cover the read messages. I have to look really closely to see what is read and unread. How about have no color for read messages and make unread messages gray stripes instead