Yahoo Mail Avatars: The final chapter

Dec-16-05, 10:31 pm by Hanford
File under: User Interface, Yahoo, Mail

I've been ranting for the last few weeks about the functionless and Yahoo Avatar and how to remove it.

Perhaps it's dumb luck, or perhaps someone at Yahoo Mail has been reading my rants and decided to throw me a bone, because two days ago my Yahoo Mail Plus account got upgraded to the new Yahoo Mail Beta. I've been a huge fan of Oddpost and I've been waiting for this for a while.

And guess what? There's no Yahoo Avatar in the new user interface. In fact, there's not even a place for it since the old mail "home page" is gone, with the new UI defaulting to the Inbox view. This is good news. Of course, it doesn't mean that the Yahoo Avatar won't debut in the new UI at some point, but the professional feel of the Yahoo Mail beta makes me hopeful.

I'm not going to bother with a full review of Yahoo Mail Beta since it's been convered by many other blogs. There are choices they made that I don't agree with (that I'm going to blog about later) but my first impression is that it is extremely cool. Good job Yahoo, for both the great new UI and for not having the Avatar. I can now sleep again.

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