The pet peeve thread

[oblong]

web based email clients that try to make your inbox smarter.  I quit using gmail for that reason.  Yahoo just forced their upgraded client to me after resisting.  I don't want all these colors and icons and whatever.  Just give me everything in one spot and make it easy for me to delete them.  Quit trying to categorize them.  It's just yahoo.  I'm not working on anything.  All I want is that one message I came in there for and let me get rid of all the crap. 

I swear they make it harder for you to select the message to delete and try to trick you into opening it first.  "No, you have to click here, in this very precise location to select it.  Otherwise we're opning it for you to see the next ad we threw on the page"

[Dan Gilmore]

Right, people justify their jobs by coming up with new features nobody asked for. And then do it again. Bells, whistles. 

[Deleterious]

There is an option in gmail to turn that off.  

I think it's settings->inbox->categories 

Just uncheck all the subcategories then everything should go in the primary inbox only.  

Dumb that you have to do it but it might be easier than changing email services.  

[oblong]

I'll check that out, thanks.  I use my Yahoo for real stuff, I got that a long long time ago after the first time I switched internet providers and realized I could no longer use @comcast.net.  I used gmail for registrations and all of that kind of thing and buying/selling tickets.  

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, oblong said:

web based email clients that try to make your inbox smarter.  I quit using gmail for that reason.  Yahoo just forced their upgraded client to me after resisting.  I don't want all these colors and icons and whatever.  Just give me everything in one spot and make it easy for me to delete them.  Quit trying to categorize them.  It's just yahoo.  I'm not working on anything.  All I want is that one message I came in there for and let me get rid of all the crap. 

I swear they make it harder for you to select the message to delete and try to trick you into opening it first.  "No, you have to click here, in this very precise location to select it.  Otherwise we're opning it for you to see the next ad we threw on the page"

I use gmail but with a third party mail app (Thunderbird) on my computers so I haven't been affected there, but but the presorting did come through on the iphone mail client and I had to turn it all off there.