AIM will shut down after 20 years

Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by phamilton on Friday October 06, 2017 @06:25PM (#15420922)

> forced to use the actual Yahoo Mail website

I left in 2016 and in practice we just didn't use email at all because it was so painful to use.

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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by yeukhon on Saturday October 07, 2017 @12:32AM (#15422292)

I heard from a friend internal YMail would have ads too because the YMail team needed to test the ad product of YMail... which is kind of ... eh.

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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by J5892 on Monday October 09, 2017 @02:22PM (#15436197)

I had to communicate with sales constantly (worked on the front-page ads team), so email was essential, unfortunately.

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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by mcculley on Saturday October 07, 2017 @06:07AM (#15423146)

What kind of work did you do that didn’t require email?

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Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years by phamilton on Saturday October 07, 2017 @12:20PM (#15424366)

We mostly just used Slack/HipChat instead.

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