The new mailbox design- awful! ( Archived) (97)

But what if they sent you one of those cute little puppies instead of a flower? Does that mean the puppy died too? Awww now I'm gonna cry.

I'm not totally sure about some the complaints in this thread. Basics of the mail and flower boxes have actually changed very little. Here's some info about the new mail pages that may clear up some of this.

-The photos are smaller to save room and allow more messages to be viewable on each page... but MOUSE OVER A PHOTO and it expands and becomes even larger than it used to be on the old page.

-The clock icon can be clicked to view your history of mail with that member. That clock icon has nothing to do with open or unopened mail.

-The "face" of the mailbox DOES have a light background with blue or black print.

-NEW unopened messages have BOLD print and WHITE background- this is the case in both inbox and outboxes.

-Once a mail MESSAGE is OPENED, its background turns GREYish and its print becomes PLAIN instead of bold. This is how you know mail has been opened both in inboxes and outboxes. This process is common.. it should be similar to your offsite emails at hotmail, yahoo, etc.

-When you open a message you have buttons to reply with by mail, or by flower, or to delete the message.

-When you open a message, your entire history of mail with that member is listed underneath the message for your convenience.

-In your FLOWERBOX, a NEW flower simply says "Click to Open". The face of the page has a WHITE background and BOLD print.

-Once you OPEN a FLOWER, your flower appears in the row, and the background turns GREYish and has PLAIN print rather than bold.

-Sidebars are considered secondary to the purpose of the page they are on, so most of them will be darker to maintain and direct focus onto the primary part of the page. Items in the RIGHT SIDEBAR are made dark so it does NOT draw attention away from the message or flower on the mailbox pages. The print used on the sidebar is light to be readable on the dark sidebar background.

-The green/red/grey colors of borders on these pages have been chosen to be bright, upbeat, classy, and interesting. We understand that not all users will like the colors, and that the new look will take time to get used to.

-Scam info is listed everywhere in your mail/flower/card boxes to make it IMPOSSIBLE for you not to be aware of scam, redflags and warnings.

-FILTERED MAIL is no more.. it has been removed because we found that most users didn't 'get' the concept. It was a resource-intensive feature that most members didn't find, didn't use, and just found confusing. So now you have "Blocked Settings", and the criteria you setup there for your communication will block, not filter... it will no longer go into a FilterBox, it will just be blocked according to your choices.

-RED mailbox signs in the top nav that stay red have to do with keeping mail counts updated. Staff will try to be more consious of updating those counts more often for you.

-Mail that suddenly disappears has nothing to do with the new design.. it has to do with site abusers being removed from the site for your safety. This may have happened after the auto-mail notice was sent out to you.

-All EDITS to your profile can still be done by by clicking Edit Profile in the top nav. But a cool improvement was added to the top of your profile page. Note all the GREEN quik-links to edit all your 'stuff'. Also, are you aware of the green link there that allows you to change the color of your profile page. I personally like to use the numbers to change the colors rather than the slidebar because is allows so many more color possibilities. Yes, you can still delete comments, shouts, testimonials, etc. Pretty much everything someone can put on your profile can be controlled, accepted, deleted by you.