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Flattery will get you…somewhere

A recent blog post on the unofficial yahoo weblog (Hey Yahoo! Mail beta team. Why don’t you ever call?) recently called me out. No, not like that (they don’t want to meet out on the playground at 3).

the only actual mail beta information has come from the personal blog of a user-savvy backend developer, Ryan Kennedy

That’s probably the nicest thing anybody has said about me in public (my wife has said some things about me in private that I won’t share here). I like to pretend I know something about users, it’s nice to have some positive feedback.

On a related note, I happen to completely agree with Joe about the recent note sent by Yahoo! to the Yahoo! Mail Group. The note he refers to left me with some serious “WTF?”.

Can you let me know what specific topics you would like us to touch on in the
future Yahoo! Mail Updates?

For starters, how about some…updates? The last post on the updates blog was back in December and there have only been two posts total since the blog was started in late November. Anything at this point would at least give some indication that it hasn’t been abandoned. Also, if you’ve bothered reading the Yahoo! Group you’d already have a pretty good idea of what kinds of updates they’re craving. In my personal opinion, the most likely bits of information they’d find really useful are:

  1. What was in that last release?
  2. What’s in the next release (or two)?
  3. Is there a list of known issues? (the group has actually started their own list)
  4. When will they get an invite? (for those who haven’t gotten one yet)

It’s not brain science, just pay a little attention.

Anyway, thanks to Joe for the compliment (yes, I took it as one…whether you intended it to be a compliment or not ;)) and thanks for calling Yahoo! on the updates blog. I’ve mentioned it before, but it’s good to have someone with more visibility bring it up.

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4 Responses to “Flattery will get you…somewhere”

  1. Joe Beaulaurier Says:
    March 15th, 2006 at 1:49 pm

    You’re welcome but more importantly you really earned our thanks. Especially since your job description probably doesn’t include marketing and public relations.

    Joe

  2. Ryan Says:
    March 15th, 2006 at 5:16 pm

    Ha…no, it most definitely does not.

  3. Luke Says:
    March 16th, 2006 at 6:16 am

    hi ryan,

    i looking forward to the new yahoo mail and your blog has been the only place to check out whats new.

    also you see that yahoo uk has got info about new mail:
    http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk

    i can’t wait to start using it, hopefully my invite will arrive soon. keep up the good work lad i’m amazed and what you guys are doing with AJAX.

  4. Emil Yang Says:
    March 18th, 2006 at 1:00 am

    Ya so humble,like conservative chinese,hahahaha

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