the new yahoo appearance is beyond terrible. It uses the screen space in the most inefficient manner possible, For one thing, there is a completely unused panel on the right that takes up almost a third of the screen space. It is not used for anything, and I can't collapse it to reclaim screen space. The worst thing, though, is the spacing.. in the main panel.. there is way, way, way, too much space between words, characters/letters, messages.. The overall effect is that I see very little of my message details, maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of what I could potentially see with the screen space I have available. You do ***NOT*** need to have that much white space!!! At least, give the user the option to get rid of that useless panel, or collapse it, or hide it. And, let the user choose the message spacing and density. Don't just make it a "one size fits all" thing, because it certainly is not that.
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the new yahoo appearance is beyond terrible. It uses the screen space in the most inefficient manner possible, For one thing, there is a completely unused panel on the right that takes up almost a third of the screen space. It is not used for anything, and I can't collapse it to reclaim screen space. The worst thing, though, is the spacing.. in the main panel.. there is way, way, way, too much space between words, characters/letters, messages.. The overall effect is that I see very little of my message details, maybe 1/4 or 1/5 of what I could potentially see with the screen space I have available. You do ***NOT*** need to have that much white space!!! At least, give the user the option to get rid of that useless panel, or collapse it, or hide it. And, let the user choose the message spacing and density. Don't just make it a "one size fits all" thing, because it certainly is not that.