Thanks Yahoo!

Thanks for the great redesign, which allows me to get to the “good stuff” first.

Yes, thanks.

I use Yahoo Mail still, for all of my ‘transactional’ emails – when signing up for sites like Twitter, or buying items on sites like B&H Photo.  I don’t want my other email address to get polluted with spam so often associated with publishing your email on the web.

And I still use MyYahoo, though sparingly.  Really, I just use it as a quick means to access my email and stock information with some other content thrown in there in case I miss it in my other browsing.

The problem I have is this: I access my Yahoo Mail through the Mail widget on the MyYahoo page.  That takes me to my inbox, you’d assume.  Well, it doesn’t.  It takes me to this useless page that shows news items (Today’s top stories) as well as a bunch of other crap I couldn’t care less about.  From this page, I then have to click Inbox to see my actual mail.

WHY?

Isn’t this news stuff already being delivered to MyYahoo?  And look at all of the redundant links to the inbox – why?  Maybe because people want to see their freakin INBOX when they access their mail, and not your “top stories’ or ‘good stuff.’

Who designs this stuff?  At least make it an option for me to control – most users won’t set the option and you’ll still have the opportunity to put your crap in front of them.  But for those of us who will, we’ll be forever appreciative, and maybe even give you some good words.