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Jun. 15th, 2004
Dear Hotmail/msn/microsoft/etc etc etc
Your email service sucks.
My first point, you only provide two megabytes for storage.
Now, the average person who wants to email a few pictures of their kids to grandma, they don't know how to optimize pictures. So they'll probably be using bitmaps.
One of those alone is probably going to fill whatever space was left in the account, after all those chain letters saying 'omg!!!1111oneoneeleven hotmail's going to close!!'
Maybe it should. Do us a favor.
Your main competitor, yahoo, recently upped their limits (which were already fairly high) to 100mb.
A hundred. Some people pay for webhosting that has that much space. (not me, I require 150;))
And here you are, providing 1/50 of the space.
Plus, your new and 'improved' layout is pretty bad too. I have a modem. There are, surprisingly, other people who own these fantastic, yet horribly almost obsolete devices as well. And just going between pages takes over a minute.
If you were going to get critiqued by a layout reviewer, you'd definitely get a 0 for speed and catering to your users.
Then there's the whole manner of ads around the place. You do *not* want to use pop up ads. Rotating banners can be dealt with, but the whole pop up idea must go. Understand?
I've already been waiting on this page to load for about three minutes now. That's two minutes over my initial guess.
Right now, I have one rotating banner, a lovely toolbar that doesn't do *anything* because I don't have any content (such as the emails I was hoping to see by now, after three minutes, you know) to use them on.
Oh, and since I was looking at my other email, which I had used to store things, I noticed that it's completely empty. Meaning I've lost all such things such as the mangledesh adventure from aust, and various other emails.
Fortunately your method of forwarding emails is so hideously slow that I gave up after the first few, so I'm hoping some others are still in my main email.
Ah, and now, after five minutes, I see emails.
And the green bars are still coming up. I'll just stop those with a timely hit of the red X towards the top of my browser.
Oh dear, what a mistake. I clicked to see page two of my emails.. fortunately, with only one in there, it won't take *quite* so long... but it's already been a minute. To load a page with one email shouldn't take that long, right?
Oh dear, there's *two* banners now.. and no content..
Things are looking pretty bad for you.
Wow, at least two minutes to bring up a single email. Yet it's the very last thing to load, because you just *had* to have the *two* banners come up before anything else. But because it wasn't the email I needed, I'll have to wait another five minutes for the other 100 to show up.
Obviously, if you weren't such a crap company, I wouldn't have so much time to spend writing this in semagic, while waiting for my emails that I'm going to get as far away from you as possible.. Maybe to yahoo, since I have 100mb to fill up, and they claim that they don't delete anything, and if you want it gone, you have to do it yourself..
Since their pages tend to load a bit faster than yours, what with the whole simple layout thing, and minimal images... (four minutes now.. should be any time now, right?) Sounds good to me.
Pity it would be so much trouble to just tell anyone not to email me with my handy hotmail address.. their little minds have great stress on them, and to do something that actually requires typing might upset the delicate balance they have in place..
*shrugs*
You're evil. but I can't do anything about it
*goes to move her emails about, now the page has loaded*
Your email service sucks.
My first point, you only provide two megabytes for storage.
Now, the average person who wants to email a few pictures of their kids to grandma, they don't know how to optimize pictures. So they'll probably be using bitmaps.
One of those alone is probably going to fill whatever space was left in the account, after all those chain letters saying 'omg!!!1111oneoneeleven hotmail's going to close!!'
Maybe it should. Do us a favor.
Your main competitor, yahoo, recently upped their limits (which were already fairly high) to 100mb.
A hundred. Some people pay for webhosting that has that much space. (not me, I require 150;))
And here you are, providing 1/50 of the space.
Plus, your new and 'improved' layout is pretty bad too. I have a modem. There are, surprisingly, other people who own these fantastic, yet horribly almost obsolete devices as well. And just going between pages takes over a minute.
If you were going to get critiqued by a layout reviewer, you'd definitely get a 0 for speed and catering to your users.
Then there's the whole manner of ads around the place. You do *not* want to use pop up ads. Rotating banners can be dealt with, but the whole pop up idea must go. Understand?
I've already been waiting on this page to load for about three minutes now. That's two minutes over my initial guess.
Right now, I have one rotating banner, a lovely toolbar that doesn't do *anything* because I don't have any content (such as the emails I was hoping to see by now, after three minutes, you know) to use them on.
Oh, and since I was looking at my other email, which I had used to store things, I noticed that it's completely empty. Meaning I've lost all such things such as the mangledesh adventure from aust, and various other emails.
Fortunately your method of forwarding emails is so hideously slow that I gave up after the first few, so I'm hoping some others are still in my main email.
Ah, and now, after five minutes, I see emails.
And the green bars are still coming up. I'll just stop those with a timely hit of the red X towards the top of my browser.
Oh dear, what a mistake. I clicked to see page two of my emails.. fortunately, with only one in there, it won't take *quite* so long... but it's already been a minute. To load a page with one email shouldn't take that long, right?
Oh dear, there's *two* banners now.. and no content..
Things are looking pretty bad for you.
Wow, at least two minutes to bring up a single email. Yet it's the very last thing to load, because you just *had* to have the *two* banners come up before anything else. But because it wasn't the email I needed, I'll have to wait another five minutes for the other 100 to show up.
Obviously, if you weren't such a crap company, I wouldn't have so much time to spend writing this in semagic, while waiting for my emails that I'm going to get as far away from you as possible.. Maybe to yahoo, since I have 100mb to fill up, and they claim that they don't delete anything, and if you want it gone, you have to do it yourself..
Since their pages tend to load a bit faster than yours, what with the whole simple layout thing, and minimal images... (four minutes now.. should be any time now, right?) Sounds good to me.
Pity it would be so much trouble to just tell anyone not to email me with my handy hotmail address.. their little minds have great stress on them, and to do something that actually requires typing might upset the delicate balance they have in place..
*shrugs*
You're evil. but I can't do anything about it
*goes to move her emails about, now the page has loaded*
(no subject)
Jun. 15th, 2004 09:32 pmmeg, zeeiit, and all you more-or-less anti-bush politicals: http://www.livejournal.com/users/zoethe/218296.html#cutid1
I dunno if you've read it; it's about that group of senators and stuff that are going to sign this thing saying bush is screwing the country over.
I dunno if you've read it; it's about that group of senators and stuff that are going to sign this thing saying bush is screwing the country over.
(no subject)
Jun. 15th, 2004 10:01 pmew.. earth..
I can't remember what I got on this last time.. but yeah, description sorta fits
and then this one.. taken as closely as possible as Thad
What Type of Villain are You?
mutedfaith.com.
find your element
at mutedfaith.com.
I can't remember what I got on this last time.. but yeah, description sorta fits
and then this one.. taken as closely as possible as Thad
What Type of Villain are You?
mutedfaith.com.
find your element
at mutedfaith.com.