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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Cesar Diaz
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Currently, it is very hard to identify what email is selected. The only visual cue is a thin blue line to the left of the selected email in the email list. This is not very intuitive and often times I end up deleting emails that I want to keep thinking that another email is selected. Please make it more visually clear what email is currently selected in the email list. This could be done by highlighting the selected email in a different color, but there are many other ways to achieve this goal. I leave it up to he smart Yahoo UI developers to find a good solution.
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Appookta Simon
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Light blue text on gray is hard to read. Please make print a greater contrast with the background it’s on.
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stephen clopp
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Can't tell what email I am VIEWING, the list is all dark gray, no indication of my selection.
Sure there is a very faint shadow on the bottom of the selected email but that totally fails to mark it.
ADD CSS such as a 2 pixel border or something. The list is overwhelmed by the white UNREAD emails versus the dark gray READ emails. Reduce the dark gray it is too much ! Put a border on the selected. PLEASE !
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Divyesh Patel
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It is not giving clear difference between the read and unread email. So yahoo should provide back ground colour options. Please amend this things to make the new version very effective.
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David G
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The current color coding (Grey = unread, Black = read) is *exactly backwards*. My eye is drawn to the black and not to the grey.
Please reverse this or give me the option to do so.
Much thanks.
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Nicholas Forrester
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What's up with that awful greyed-out look of 'read' messages? Quite frankly, it's depressing. Please go back to making unread messages bold-face. That's all that's needed!
We know Ads are important to you, but that big old island on the right for Ads is a waste of space. Give us more room for messages and more lines for message preview. Sometimes we want to see the content of those emails without opening them, especially when they are spam.
Why is Yahoo! so lazy when it comes to editing and customizing messages? We want more options for font styles and colours, alignments, indents, spacing, and scripts.
And, how about multiple emails/pages being opened simultaneously for multi-tasking purposes?
We want to be able to toggle and customise the size of the navigation pane. And, the same with the message window, and the big old island for Ads.
Some third-party app add-ins would be useful for productivity. Yahoo! can become a sort of one-stop shop, much like Outlook.
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Callum Mackintosh
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It seems wrong at the moment that read messages have grey background and unread messages white background. To me it seems more logical as the other way around. The dark theme has it right with grey as unread and black as read.
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Stuart McCord
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As above - I find it really difficult to read the list of messages with the grey background ... and there is no way to remove it. The old version was much clearer
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Jennifer Erickson Crayton
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While there is a lot that I like about the new Yahoo email, there are two things that I find very visually distracting and it's make me crazy. 1. Is there a way to NOT gray out messages that have been read and do it the same way it was in the old Yahoo email? 2. Is it possible to opt out of the colored circles with the 2 letters next to the email header?
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Anonymous
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Please change back to the old style where unread emails were in bold and were marked. The new theme makes it hard to visually tell which emails are unread.
For example if you are using top-view and all emails are either read or unread in the current position, there is no indicator as to whether they are all read, or all unread.
Arguably the read style (black, when using dark mode) looks more like it should be unread, than the unread style (gray when using dark mode)
There is no difference in font boldness, and no mark next to the emails to indicate whether they are read.
It is simply awful to use. Thanks.
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Vladka Green
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The read messages in grey are difficult to read. The style before with the bold letters was easy to see which message was read and which was not. I can't even see the starred ones which makes it difficult to find the important messages. Is it possible to change that?
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me you
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I do not like how my messages are all in grey now. I have no idea whats read or not. Maybe you should ask if we want our experience ruined.
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Emily Ingersoll
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I've tried the 3 different modes. There is not enough contrast to see if a message is unread or not. The old yahoo mail had other colors, like purple. Made it much easier to read.
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Anonymous
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Greying out read items is still dizzying and of little value. Boldface v. normal text was easier to read and decipler
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sophia li
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It’s hard to distinguish between read and unread emails in both themes. Could you make them easier to tell apart?
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J umpstart
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There's only two appearance modes: light or dark. Dark is too dark, light is too bright. Also grey background colour to distinguish read from unread is unnecessary when you bold unread messages in a darker black. We don't need two contrasts it just competes with each other.
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Frank Lin
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The new display method for the inbox is extremely confusing and difficult to read. At a glance, it is not clear what is "read" vs "unread".
Shading is not the appropriate method to identity unread/read. Go back to bold text for unread. -
D_M
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The new design that highlights read (opened) emails with a grey background makes the inbox harder to scan.
The previous layout, with all emails on a white background and using Bold text for Unread emails and Regular text for Opened emails, was much easier to navigate.
Please go back to that cleaner and more readable format. It made managing emails much more efficient. This is a big one for me and would be a deal breaker.
Thank you.
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Ken Bolen
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Row shading of SELECTED email matches shading of ANY READ message. Confusing to know what email I am reading in the preview pane when going back-and-forth between preview and the Inbox navigation.
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Lauren Colston
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The unread and read icon indicators seem to be reviewed. A closed envelope means that a message is unread, and an open envelope means that the message has been read.