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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Jackie Piper
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Why does it keep messages that have been read greyed out, very annoying.
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Lindsey Murtland
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The new version is terrible and difficult to navigate. I don't want read messages highlighted. I want the ability to turn that off. You have taken away almost all of the user's ability to personalize and made the interface more difficult and less intuitive.
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Jeffrey R Staloch
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Impossible to see unread emails. FIX THIS ASAP
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J G
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Allow the ability to go back to Classic Yahoo mail. I can deal with the changes made to allow the movement of an email from one folder to another etc. However, the background and font differences between READ and UNREAD emails are intolerable.
Either allow users to change fonts, background, and boldness or go back to the methods used in the older Classic Yahoo Mail.
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Patricia Hogan
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Yahoo needs to stop the new shading of various emails shown in the Inbox listings. I can't imagine why anyone would have thought this was a good idea! I have an eye condition that makes reading the shaded entries extremely difficult! And, of course, it appears that the ones they've decided to shade are the important ones! Every time I try to check/read my emails now, I end up with a headache due to just trying to read what they are!
If Yahoo insists on changing their mail, they need to ALWAYS make it possible to return to the original (ie Basic) mail. They should know by now that not everyone likes the changes they make! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" -
Maureen Nocella
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GO Back! This new format is a copy of Google. So unoriginal.
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Swati Karve
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In the READ mail, please remove the grey background color. It is distracting, and I ended up deleting read emails. Read Emails can just be just UNBOLD (I am not sure what exact technical term is) but UNREAD mails are BOLD. Let the Read emails just be UNBOLD (normal) without the grey color. Go back to the older design for READ MAIL
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Backflow Independent
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How can this problem have been the works since Oct. 1, 2024, and if has NOT been taken care of! I agree with almost everybody in this thread that you can't tell what has been read or not read. A DARK FONT FOR UNREAD. A LIGHT FONT UNREAD AND AN ARROW OR MARK WHAT WAS RELIED TOO.
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Tony Macaluso
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The new email experience is very confusing. It is really hard to tell what emails are new and what emails are already read. Please try to revise this user experience so it's easier. I think you made the email experience harder.
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Tchey BP
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The new current version of March 2025 is even more worse now please go back to the most recent one
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jason sarasnick
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It is impossible to figure what is read and not , i would switch back to settings for yahoo old email but now i see that is gone
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Lisa G
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They grey highlighted ones should be the new ones as in the old version. It is too confusing to have it the opposite colors. Plus without the blue dot, its really not easy to see the new emails.
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Amber Padgett
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Impossible to tell what messages are read and which are unread. Make them different again, please. Also it no longer says how many emails are unread, and I had to look up how to select all, which is such a basic function. That should be super easy and intuitive to find. This is really a terrible update.
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roxana ontivero
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Under appearances: Dark mode- you can not tell which email has been read. It will be nice for the the unread emails to be more bolder so it will be more easier to differentiate which you had read with the ones you haven't.
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j n
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There needs to be a color distinction between "read", "unread" and "currently reading" emails on the left hand side. It's too confusing having the "read" and "currently reading" as the same color.
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Roger Fang
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@Beth Horn, that's what I do, but open a separate tabs for Basic and new mail so I can flip between them. I have to use basic to be able to see read v. unread and to delete messages in SPAM folder by simply pressing ENTER key after the delete button. The new one lacks this delete capability and one has to do extra mouse clicks to delete messages in SPAM folder. Removing features is not an upgrade, but downgrade!
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Bruce Miles
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Wait. My previous critical comments were not quite accurate. The more I use the new format, the more I hate it. It's too big and clunky with too many distracting colors and its hard to read and it slows the reading's progress!!!! And it's harder to differentiate between read and unread emails because the fonts seem similar and not clearly bolded like the previous version. How could Yahoo possibly think making an email format LESS efficient is a good thing. The user is not on this site to shop or do some casual reading - rather, they want to check emails to get work done quickly and efficiently.
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beth horn
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This needs to be flipped. Grey background looks like they are unread not read. And...needs more contrast. The unread emails should jump out & be easy to find. Now they just look like "ads" that are mixed in.
I find myself constantly flipping back to basic Yahoo just so I can see what's read/unread in my inbox. -
Reitha Jacobs
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gray background makes viewing difficult for visually impaired. Need high contrast like the old version. Bring back high contrast.
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Anonymous
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What's with the banding in Inbox? I think it's meant to represent read and unread email. But that's what bold and not bold are for. Like same as every other email client. Lose the banding please, or give option to disable it.