Ask HN: Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?

#1

Post by Everest » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 6:18 PM UTC

I'm getting to the point where Gmail is so slow that its borderline unusable. I've followed all the Internet advice on how to speed things up, but to no avail. Its particularly frustrating because our startup uses Gmail....

Just thought I would vent...

Re: Ask HN: Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?

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Post by gexla » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 6:44 PM UTC

No problems with my Gmail. Maybe you have some sort of lab features which are slowing things down? Try disabling everything you can to troubleshoot it.

Re: Ask HN: Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 6:50 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?

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Post by kngspook » Fri, Jun 11, 2010, 9:29 PM UTC

How old are your accounts?

This individual also had slow Gmail issues and his account was very old. His issues were resolved when Gmail moved him to a new server.

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/06/my-gmail-is-fast...

Re: Ask HN: Is Gmail becoming unusable for you?

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Post by adrianmonk » Sat, Jun 12, 2010, 2:16 AM UTC

My gmail account is fast. Even old messages (that I haven't accessed in weeks) load quickly.

Gmail supports IMAP, so you could use some IMAP client on whatever machine(s) you use most often, and then use the Gmail interface when you need to access it from elsewhere. Many e-mail programs with locally cache the messages, so even if Gmail's IMAP server were slow, you could still have a responsive UI.