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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.

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  • F M commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Gary Poloso commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • Deborah Autorino commented  ·   ·  Report

    I don't want Read messages shown in gray; it makes them hard to see. Please make it possible to turn this off.

  • Deborah Plaia commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Patrick McLemore commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Michelle DeVille commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Dawn Boren commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • MMM commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • Iwan Streichenberger commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • Herbert Neusiedler commented  ·   ·  Report

    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.

  • JustSomeGuy commented  ·   ·  Report

    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

  • Leeza Libershteyn commented  ·   ·  Report

    I absolutely hate this version! I can't tell which emails are read and which aren't. When it says I have unread msg, I have no idea what I need to read. Please fix this!!!

  • Wenhui Gao commented  ·   ·  Report

    New yahoo email doesn't high light the current email I am reading from a list of emails. It is difficult to find the current email from the list. How can I setup so that the current email is visually high-lighted from the email list?

  • Lisa S G commented  ·   ·  Report

    Unread emails no long show up in bold. Seriously. How terrible. It's pretty horrible and there are no themes? The only good thing is the preview/.

  • Nicholas JV Vanaria commented  ·   ·  Report

    Read e-mail color should NOT be gray. It looks like either an unread e-mail or something that is grayed out and cannot be clicked on. Having it bold (unread) and not bold (read) is much much easier. Not many things would make me switch e-mails and stop patronizing your sponsors, but this is definitely one of them.

  • margie weissgerber commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new version of Yahoo Mail is horrible. It's difficult to navigate. Graying out the 'read' emails makes navigating more difficult. The previous version of yahoo mail was MUCH better.

  • MAIN - Mary Klauk commented  ·   ·  Report

    GO BACK TO THE CLASSIC VERSION!!!!!!

    Bring back the CONTRAST! I am a senior citizen that requires contrasting colors and gray is NOT one of them. This makes using my email of 30 years so difficult unnecessarily. This is NOT an upgrade. Please consult with Accessibility experts & those in Universal Design.
    P.S.

    GO BACK TO THE CLASSIC VERSION!!!!!!

    YAHOO IS MAKING UNNECESSARY CHANGES TO ITS USER INTERFACE THAT DO NOT BENEFIT THE END USER.

    Why did Yahoo roll out essentially a Beta version taking users BACK to the early days of email when features we know and love today didn't exist yet. SLOWLY adding features we previously had back in or not at all is ridiculous. Doesn't Yahoo have the analytics showing which features are used most by users? If not, why??? That is critical data when making any overhaul or big changes in a product. Get your act together!

    Admit you made a mistake & LISTEN to your users!!!!

  • O Kopp commented  ·   ·  Report

    How hard is it to program so a 'blue dot' shows beside mail that is not read? The greyed line is not that easy to differentiate from the rest of the emails. Again, how hard can that be????????? Do you need to hire new IT staff???????

  • Elizabeth Thomas commented  ·   ·  Report

    The new Yahoo should be user-friendly by doing the following a) DO NOT USE GRAY FOR EMAILS, because the gray makes the screen visually inaccessible to many older users by blurring the contrasts, b) REDUCE SPACE TAKEN BY ADS ON THE NEW SCREEN, because increased ad space makes the email summaries harder to read, again making the emails inaccessible to many users, c) YAHOO SHOULD CONSULT THE PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN, and then apply those principles to all aspects of their new email from opening emails to allowing users to customize their settings for what will work for them.
    Currently, none of the three suggestions are implemented, and this lack of the application o universal design makes this email format much more difficult than it should be.

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