Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Fix One Thing, Break Another

Yahoo made a major user interface change to their email today.

The original line-up of buttons across each message read like this:

DELETE REPLY REPLYALL FORWARD

I might be wrong but I think that's what it used to look like.

Now it looks like this:

DELETE SPAM REPLY FORWARD

Anyway, the key I'm very used to hitting in order to REPLY -- that is, the 2nd key -- is now SPAM and that means it's easy to dump a message when you're trying to reply to it. A little dangerous.

Meanwhile, they did make it much harder to REPLY TO ALL accidentally, by making the REPLY To Everyone, a pull-down menu and nothing you can hit by accident.