That's why I switched to the simple HTML version of the Gmail. Not as fancy, but it covers 90% of my needs. When I need fancy interface, I temporarily switch to it.
Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
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#22.... it works perfectly fine for me
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#23Welcome to 2018, friend, where we have several orders of magnitude more computing power and somehow everything is less responsive. It's all accomplished through an advanced process called "Software Engineering".
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#24Not directly related, but I reckon the mentality of some web developers I've complained to about their "appsites" being sluggish is similar here --- "it works perfectly fine for me, how about you upgrade your hardware?"
I've heard that you can use http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ to get a basic HTML version.
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#25Yes, I have reported it to them and never heard back.
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#26One setting I found that has made the new interface slightly more bearable is turning off "Hover actions" under the General tab. It gets rid of that awful box-shadow that makes scanning down the list difficult.
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#27I get pretty frustrated with it. I work almost exclusively with shortcuts, and after a while the interface decides to forget to respond to my commands.
Example - /,"is:unread to:me",Enter. Should search for unread mails to me.
On a regular basis if I move through five items rapidly and head into this search, it just shows a blank screen inside the area where the mails should be. Even hitting f5 won't resolve the issue at times. Ive actually stopped browsing through mails on some other threads because of this issue because it would take up too much time to keep debugging Gmail.
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#28It's incredibly slow and to top it all the new redesign is maddeningly bad. I have to zoom out to 90%-80% just to make it bearable.
There is clearly no separation between various sections in the fifty shades of grey that's become their MO. This should never have passed the first line of review let alone be in production.
With all their new decisions with the Pixel 3, Chrome and now Gmail, it's clear Google's list its edge.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#29Not only sluggish but I couldn't stand the custom font, it makes reading paragraphs of text a headache.
Ah yes, I hate it!
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#30Old version is available in the gear if you're using corporate gmail