Email'
Care2 has a new email interface, of which my thoughts have fluctuated WILDLY the past couple of days.
The awesome: 5000 MB. :D previously a hundred, previously 6.
The annoying: It took a while to get the email from the old system to the new one.
The I nearly packed everything up and headed of to gmail: I couldn't read my email for ages because some of my FF extensions were incompatible. Disabling for care2 fixed the problem but ARGH. I could see the new emails! (before I could see the old ones actually. D: ) I could click and they'd be marked as read. Only. I hadn't actually read them! D: it would only say that I hadn't selected a message and I'm just kajldfk I'M TRYING.
The irritating: Sometimes I have a small bug, in which it sucks up resources (much like youtube) which makes my browser unhappy when I have other things open and in turn, me unhappy.
This is probably because it now does this live thing much like gmail, where it monitors email, though it's better than gmail in that I can see the number of unread messages displayed in the tab, where as gmail doesn't do that...
This moar irritating: it insists on opening everything in frames. If it would remember how I like my frames it would be better but as it is, it feels overly friendly. ;>.>
ETA: Whee no more frames they finally went bai bai.
The good: they fixed some of the display problems in the old one, and now have scroll bars added for the sidebar which means all of my folders will display properly.
The v.good: Care2 tech support though it is hard to find seem pretty nice.
The I LOVE YOU: EMAIL SEARCH FEATURE. I never realised how much I wanted this for my fandom account until I did. ♥ I can finally hunt down all those CSIRO emails and catch up on science news and experiments! ♥ (Wut? SCIENCE IS TOTTLY A FANDOM).
Conclusion: Hey I can do care about the environment and surf my email at the same time! =P
It's still weird seeing how much care2 has changed over the years though, - my current care2 account I've had since 1999, but I had one the year before that as well before switching.
I don't use the social networking feature at /all/ but it's clearly become a significant part of the website. Not really any fandom stuff on there though, which is why it never caught my interest.
(as for life, BLAH.)
The awesome: 5000 MB. :D previously a hundred, previously 6.
The annoying: It took a while to get the email from the old system to the new one.
The I nearly packed everything up and headed of to gmail: I couldn't read my email for ages because some of my FF extensions were incompatible. Disabling for care2 fixed the problem but ARGH. I could see the new emails! (before I could see the old ones actually. D: ) I could click and they'd be marked as read. Only. I hadn't actually read them! D: it would only say that I hadn't selected a message and I'm just kajldfk I'M TRYING.
The irritating: Sometimes I have a small bug, in which it sucks up resources (much like youtube) which makes my browser unhappy when I have other things open and in turn, me unhappy.
This is probably because it now does this live thing much like gmail, where it monitors email, though it's better than gmail in that I can see the number of unread messages displayed in the tab, where as gmail doesn't do that...
This moar irritating: it insists on opening everything in frames. If it would remember how I like my frames it would be better but as it is, it feels overly friendly. ;>.>
ETA: Whee no more frames they finally went bai bai.
The good: they fixed some of the display problems in the old one, and now have scroll bars added for the sidebar which means all of my folders will display properly.
The v.good: Care2 tech support though it is hard to find seem pretty nice.
The I LOVE YOU: EMAIL SEARCH FEATURE. I never realised how much I wanted this for my fandom account until I did. ♥ I can finally hunt down all those CSIRO emails and catch up on science news and experiments! ♥ (Wut? SCIENCE IS TOTTLY A FANDOM).
Conclusion: Hey I can do care about the environment and surf my email at the same time! =P
It's still weird seeing how much care2 has changed over the years though, - my current care2 account I've had since 1999, but I had one the year before that as well before switching.
I don't use the social networking feature at /all/ but it's clearly become a significant part of the website. Not really any fandom stuff on there though, which is why it never caught my interest.
(as for life, BLAH.)
Care2: Quota: 67MB of 5000MB
And gmail is even better: "You are currently using 854 MB (12%) of your 6599 MB."
I don't think care2 will be changing theirs soon.
<.<; Actually I suspect care2 is trying to be the environmentally friendly myspace type thing, even more than LJ. They've created a chat program, have mailing list/forum things, user profiles, a really interesting news network program - that works a lot like digg, they've always had the e-cards as long as I've been a part of the site, and the petitions and races...
It's just really interesting site with a strong focus on environmental issues.