Is your Yahoo not working this morning?

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Anonymous wrote:We had an intern whose personal email was an aol account this summer.

That's awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't been able to access it either.

I always think that those of us with Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL email addresses are better at withstanding peer pressure. Yahoo email may not be as cool as Gmail, but it has 1 TB of free storage. I've had the same email for 25 years.

I am surprised yahoo is still able to give that much storage! I thought they decreased that years ago - unless you’re granffathered in. Or is it because they are trying to hold on to their last dedicated users or they figure no one would pay for it.

[Anonymous]

Once my yahoo was down so bad I had to slam it in a door to get it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

dp. The problem with google accts is that they tie everything together. If I sign into a gmail, for example, then my google acct (which I set up w yahoo mail) is activated. I can't let one company have everything. When yahoo mail dies, I'm going off the grid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years[b]. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

I've had the same cell phone number for 26 years. My first and only cell phone number. It pairs nicely with my yahoo and hotmail accts, which I have had so long I can't remember. At least 20 years I believe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

What does that even mean??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

dp. The problem with google accts is that they tie everything together. If I sign into a gmail, for example, then my google acct (which I set up w yahoo mail) is activated. I can't let one company have everything. When yahoo mail dies, I'm going off the grid.

This is one of the reasons I have avoided anything Google for years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

What does that even mean??

Most don't have a backup of their cloud data. You can request a data dump from Google. Not sure Yahoo offers that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

What does that even mean??

Most don't have a backup of their cloud data. You can request a data dump from Google. Not sure Yahoo offers that.

Of course they do you idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

It can sooner than you think.... Yahoo emailed customers that they are reducing the 1TB storage to 20GB... less than a cell phone.... unless you pay a monthly fee. Us 90s users are screwed.

[Anonymous]

who uses yahoo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's contagious. I don't have Yahoo. I have AOL, and email has been inaccessible for the past hour. AOL acknowledges the problem and is working on it.

Why on earth are you still using either of these services? It is 2025.

DP but I've had my yahoo address since 1999. Why would I change it?

Because at some point Yahoo are going to go out of business and you’re going to lose everything. Yahoo is mainly free email and sports and news. They have stagnated as a company and havelost a lot of market share to Google and Facebook, both of whom are growing with the times - think YouTube, Google fiber, tv, and instagram, meta quest. gen Z send a lot more messages than email.

I understand you want to be defensive of your choice. But you sound like someone bragging that they’ve had the same land phone number for 25 years. it’s okay to get a cell phone. No one will judge you.

But you don’t need to completely deactivate your yahoo email; but if you haven’t already, you should get a Gmail account and slowly start transitioning to it

It can sooner than you think.... Yahoo emailed customers that they are reducing the 1TB storage to 20GB... less than a cell phone.... unless you pay a monthly fee. Us 90s users are screwed.

Thanks, this is a good tip, and this article explains more about it:

https://thedroidguy.com/yahoos-storage-trap-from-1tb-freedom-to-a-20gb-lock-in-1268901

I’m still annoyed about their massive hack and subsequent lack of disclosure a decade ago, followed by them deactivating and completely deleting all my emails from an important but low-use account (that was taking up minimal storage), without warning.

They must be barely hanging on to make such a drastic change and risk losing so many customers, but their lack of trustworthiness is not helping.