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Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by x2f10 »

AimForTheBushes wrote: post #145

It makes me feel like I'm a child at a daycare center. What's a good alternative? I'm thinking of switching to iCloud as my primary but I don't know if I want to be completely ingrained into Apple's ecosystem.

iCloud has its own benefits but the web UI is not one. iCloud is slower than Google's services and _does not work_ on a mobile browser.

I had left my phone at home while visiting a friend. I was shocked to learn I could not view iCloud.com (and my e-mails) from my girlfriend's phone without signing in to the iPhone itself via settings.

Look into Fastmail.com or Outlook Premium.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by lucg »

ex3ndr wrote: post #124
save_ferris wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's especially bad on Firefox. With that, and the fact that Google is killing Inbox, it feels like time to look for alternatives.

Sure, but where? There are not that much email providers that will live forever and won't change your UX and have mobile apps, and... and...

fastmail.com - I used gmail since the good old days when I bought an invite on ebay. Yesterday, I switched to fastmail with my own domain. I'm not looking back.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by hluska »

fermienrico wrote: post #182
hluska wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have read the FAQ. The first item is to be civil and avoid snark. The third item is to assume good faith. You've responded to the worst possible interpretation of what I said. I can assure you that I wasn't prejudging how people would respond to me because frankly, when I worry about those things, my writing goes to hell. Instead, I was trying to be friendly and poke fun of myself.

I am specifically referring to comments such as "I am going to get downvoted but I believe in X". Instead, just say "I believe in X".

Okay, but I didn't say that and I just explained that I didn't mean that. Once again, please be civil and assume good faith.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by tdb7893 »

hluska wrote: post #74

At the risk of saying something unpopular, I like the new Gmail. I liked the previous Gmail too, so maybe I'm not the best judge. It is slightly slower, but I like the look and enjoy working in it. While I dream of doing it, I think it would be hard to PM something as popular as Gmail. Once you reach a nine figure user count, any change you make will be met with millions of unhappy people...

People are always unhappy with new UIs (just look at what happens when Apple tries to change anything) and hacker news seems to be pretty negative towards all of the big tech companies (often deserved but sometimes not) so it's not always the best barometer for these changes.

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Post by CrystalLangUser »

ex3ndr wrote: post #124
save_ferris wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's especially bad on Firefox. With that, and the fact that Google is killing Inbox, it feels like time to look for alternatives.

Sure, but where? There are not that much email providers that will live forever and won't change your UX and have mobile apps, and... and...

I’ve been using Zoho’s workplace for over a year now, no complaints. I use Thunderbird on Arch/Windows 10, Airmail on OSX, and Outlook on iOS.

I just got it for email hosting at $3/mo, but they provide a host of other tools aimed towards businesses.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by aesh2Xa1 »

zbentley wrote: post #189
zzzcpan wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dogfooding doesn't work in large corporations.

Care to elaborate?

It's an idiomatic term. It means to use the thing you produce yourself. So when, in the case of Gmail, it is slow and painful to use for yourself, you will fix it.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by nofunsir »

reeeprgenx wrote: post #102
hawski wrote: post #18

I don't mind the look that much, but it's painfully slow. When an application gains a animated splash screen I know that it's time has come. I'm using a Chromebook, so in a way a Google blessed device and it's annoyingly slow. I'm switching to basic HTML view. If it will disappear I will get off gmail for good.

Head to AOL now. Please leave Gmail.

Please leave HN. Oh wait, you were just banned on your other account so you hopped on this one.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by rahimnathwani »

Why can't I easily use info from Gmail when adding contacts. For example, if an email's 'from' line includes the name and email address of the sender, I'd like to just tap (or right-click) it and have the option to 'add to contacts'. But instead I have to copy each piece separately into a new tab (painful on desktop, and even more annoying using the Android Contacts app).

And why can't I tap a phone number and save that to contacts without several extra steps?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful

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Post by rahimnathwani »

influx wrote: post #49
ColinWright wrote: post #29

I do consulting work and am regularly given an account on the company's email system. More recently they're using GMail underneath, so now I've apparently got a dozen accounts on GMail. And GMail, bless it, when I login through the company's system clocks me through to a "Choose which account" system. My reaction is to open a new tab and login again, and it usually takes me straight through to the actual email withou…

Agreed so much, don't Google engineers have this same issue switching between work and personal e-mail or is Gmail not used internally?

I use multiple Gmail accounts, but keep them in different Chrome profiles.

If you don't want to do that (e.g. because you want all your email tabs in the same window), you can just use the account switcher on the top right, or just change the 0 in the URL to a 1 or 2 or whatever.

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