F*CK You Hotmail

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  1. Lixx

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    Since that 'fuck you' thread is never opening up again it seems, don't we run the risk of a bunch of others popping up all over the place- like this one? To quote the 90's Sportscenter hosts "you cannot stop fuck you thread you can only hope to contain it".

    I really do have to give a big fuck you to Hotmail though, so please allow me to express my inner fuck you rage on it. I only use Hotmail because I created an account in the 90's and I hold onto it because some guy in a Yugoslavian country who stole my dj name Lixx (and spins drum n bass) wants it badly. I've been having issues with Hotmail and my apple mail constantly asking me for my password. Since I fucking hate IMAP (i.e. whoops I didn't mean to delete that off my iphone now it's gone forever) and will only use local POP, I thought it might be something on my end since I recently upgraded to Sierra. I deleted Hotmail last week on my apple mail and set up the account again (and had to delete 300 messages going back to August 2016 in the process).

    Then today suddenly the same problem, so I go balistic and delete Hotmail again from my apple mail program. Spending an hour combing through solutions online trying to fix this- it turns out you're having an outage Microsoft. Thanks a lot fucking Hotmail.

    Mods feel free to integrate this thread with the fuck you thread when it re-opens (if it does).
     
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    Yeah dude, Hotmail sucks..

    I used to work for a wireless company and whenever a client needed help with their smartphone and Hotmail, I'd run the other way as fast as possible..

    Good luck on your quest...
     
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    Thats why I mainly use gmail for most things. I long since stopped using yahoo mail after several hacks about 4 years ago and I rarely use hotmail. BUT because I still have a few things connected to yahoo and hotmail (and these accounts were set up in the 90's) that I use every day (and a fuck you to that guy who wants to use my hotmail handle) I hold onto them.

    At least I never used aol. lol
     
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    hotmails been my go to since the 90's as well and recently i found that deleting email doesnt actually delete it.
    i had to go through 100000000000's of old email from years back and delete (they call it purge) it all basically one by one, took bloody hours.

    my parents use gmail but they dont receive their emails right away, sometimes it takes 15 minutes or longer.
    what is a good alternative? probably none =/
     
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    ^^^ Yeah the trick with that is to go to your IMAP and POP settings under Options>Account and make sure you check the box to "Let apps and devices delete messages from Outlook" if you are I assume using another application to open your mail?

    Well Hotmail is finally fixed (for now) until next time Microsoftest....
     
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    @animator @toothaction @ultrakaiju
    Maybe we could reopen the FU thread now?
     
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    Sadly, old school Hotmail users were driven into a forced migration to Outlook Mail and there hasn't been a dry eye in the house since. Planned obsolescence for sure. Some call it progress while the masses fear each update.
     
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    Yeah I used to fear updates because usually they fuck my shit up in the name of progress with no real upgrade and loss of features I actually enjoyed, but now I don't care as much. Any major update (i.e. operating system) I wait 6 months at least till the major bugs are gone.

    Hotmail/Outlook are a joke and not really user friendly IMO. I have all my mail pop feed into mac mail and as long as that works I'm happy. I never visit the actual hotmail site unless I have to to (say to block a email address) and you could not pay me to use Outlook.
     
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    Oh yes, an FU I can get wholly and fully behind. Similar story, manacled to hotmail since the 90s and just can't give it up (as people hear who have my email know well). But it is the worst. Few services are so utterly terrible when they are so easily replaced by easier and better systems, for no cost even. Microsoft is so far behind advancement and innovation, but really, even beyond that, hotmail is like the jewel in their crown of terribleness. The entire system is only sustained by stubborn fossils like Lixx and myself, and for that reason alone I should leave it out of spite. It is well know that it is basically effed on Safari, and on PC is little better. The whole migration to outlook as you mentioned is atrocious. I have a hard time deciding if they messed this up as bad as yahoo did what little they still had in their portfolio. Hotmail, you are utterly terrible.

    As for bringing back the FU thread, well let's just say I am not quite convinced yet. I almost want to see how many other thread can devolve into complete FUs before this entire board self-implodes on the repressed frustrations.
     
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    I have an old Hotmail account I use as a spam email address. I logged in for the first time in years a few months ago, and they literally haven't improved the usability since 1999. It's amazing how simple and easy Gmail is and how no one else can seem to get their clones of it correct.
     
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    @ultrakaiju This is hands down the best thing I've heard today "hotmail is like the jewel in their crown of terribleness." Nailed IT!!!!!!!!!!
     

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