Lycos Continues to Lose Relevance.

[owsf2000]

A couple of days ago I found out thanks to slashdot that Lycos is killing off all their free email services on May 15th. It's a shame they didn't do something intelligent such as EMAILING all their free users about the warning. I know I didn't receive anything since the 9th when they originally posted the notice on one of their stupid never-looked-at blogs.

The tin-foil hatted man wants to say they're waiting until the last week before the deadline to send out an email to everyone. You know, cause a sudden "OMG WHAT DO I DO!!!! NO TIME!!!" panic and remind people that the paid premium accounts aren't going away so they can easily just upgrade to that for 19.95. I'll update if I see that email show up prior to the cut off, although obviously not going to wait to start moving things off.

I've been using them as my primary email for a couple decades now. In fact, I've been using them so long that I never actually signed up for Lycos despite having 3 lycos email accounts.

Lycos bought out mailcity, and converted my mailcity account into a lycos account.

Lycos bought out eudoramail, and converted my eudoramail account into a lycos account.

Lycos bought out angelfire, and created a lycos account for it. (I don't think I had an email with angelfire prior to that...)

But yeah. Either way, I now have a few weeks to move everything of importance off lycos and over to gmail.

This includes redirecting any online account I have that uses lycos for password changes/recovery. And there's several. (I just updated the email tied to dreamwidth before posting this.) Luckily for me my Steam, PSN, and Nintendo accounts are already on gmail.

Since I have about 3 weeks til the deadline at this point, I'm planning on moving things over a bit each day.

Comments

[kane_magus]

I switched to Gmail as my main email in late 2013-early 2014 or so, when I knew that my Comcast account was going to be going away soon. As shitty as Google might be about some other things, Gmail hasn't given me much in the way of problems or issues. I dunno if you're using your Gmail via the website or what, but it's also fairly easy to set up with Thunderbird or Outlook or whatever you'd want to use for an email client, if you don't want to use the website (enough so that I have Thunderbird set up on two different computers and it causes no conflicts or issues). I hardly ever feel a need to load up the actual Gmail website itself, which is nice.

[owsf2000]

Called it. Here it is May 4th, and Lycos has finally sent out an email about it. They have it worded as if they've already emailed people about it, which as far as I can tell is horse shit. Just barely 10 days left, so yeah, looks like they were definitely going for the sudden panic-oh-my-god-must-upgrade-to-pay-account scare tactic.

I've only got a few things left to migrate I think. Mainly netflix and facebook perhaps. After that it'll be a run down through the checklist kinda deal. I suppose I should make sure yahoo groups is also moved over if it isn't already. Not that I use it for anything anymore.