Dieing Yahoo Mail Functionality

My primary mail has been through Yahoo for a long time. I would have switched to another provider long ago, if I could automatically forward emails without paying money, but Yahoo hasn't allowed that. However, recently, Yahoo seems to be broken at varying levels of severity. It's often been very slow, freezing up, unable to send emails, unable to forward an email as is (it removed graphics and links), and unable to figure out how to view just my starred emails (or to put them at the top of my emails). It's been so bad I've hardly done anything with my emails this year. I frequently have gone 4 plus days without checking it at all, and when I check it, I check near bare minimums (pretty much just check for class emails).

I pretty sure I'm about to finally make the switch. Looks like to Gmail. I spent several hours this week researching how gmail works, and figuring out what to expect when I switch. I'll have to still check my Yahoo mail for awhile, but will attempt to get people to mail me at my Gmail account instead. So far, I'm really hopeful on this Gmail stuff. I hope it works smoothly. :)