How did they manage the expiring e-mail thing without breaking standards?
It probably only works gmail to gmail?
A rundown of the new Gmail
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Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#42Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently? I used to be super enthusiastic about every new update for everything(cool! more stuff!) but Android, Youtube and Windows 10 updates especially have made me extremely jaded - it feels like every update I either lose some functionality or something I used every day has now moved to a completely different place for no good reason. I seriously consider disablin…
> Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently?
I think that's a symptom that the person you're getting your updates from doesn't share your interests.
I like updates to libre software, because the makers share my interest in having the best tool. Updates to Android, not so much.
Or maybe you just want a stabler release channel — Debian stable instead of Rawhide — which, of course, web apps don't have.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#43Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently? I used to be super enthusiastic about every new update for everything(cool! more stuff!) but Android, Youtube and Windows 10 updates especially have made me extremely jaded - it feels like every update I either lose some functionality or something I used every day has now moved to a completely different place for no good reason. I seriously consider disablin…
There's plenty of Google developers creating nonsense to justify why they should be promoted.
It's not their fault. When you're hired to work on Gmail, what you are supposed to do? You have to innovate. You have to justify your choices. You have to support it with testing. It's not enough that you invent something and write "I feel that...".
Moreover, Google developers, just like all developers, work on things they don't believe in, or sometimes find useless. It's just work like any other. Criticizing developers for changes in how Gmail works is not really fair.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#44"Finally, a new confidential mode allows you to remove the option to forward, copy, download or print messages—useful for when you have to send sensitive information via email like a tax return or your social security number. You can also make a message expire after a set period of time to help you stay in control of your information." No, thanks. I like my e-mail archive under my own control.
Since I automatically forward my Gmail to another (main, non-gmail) address, this means I may not receive those mails.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#45The most exciting news here is that they're iterating on Gmail again. It was clear that Gmail was stagnating for a while as they were investing in Inbox. It's unfortunate that Inbox didn't take off, but now that it looks like they're putting the effort behind Gmail proper, we'll be seeing continual updates and improvements.
In just the past 6 months we've seen native Gmail add-ons (that work across web and mobile) and now confidential mode, Calendar/Keep/Tasks sidebars, and Material look and feel.
It's more work for us working on the InboxSDK, but I'm gladly willing to make the tradeoff of some extra work for a more robust and vibrant underlying platform.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#46does anyone know the split of these kind of posts on the different blog domains of Google ?
I find more meaninfgul postings on the *.googleblog.com sites (e.g. https://research.googleblog.com or https://india.googleblog.com/) versus the blog.google sites.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Each year the internet and its services are less and less for hackers and more and more for the general public. This is reflected in how everything is designed. The average person has totally different needs and usage patterns than power users. If you want to avoid this phenomena, where the services you use slowly degrade and lose features, favor products that specifically target power users. Products for the general…
Nice thought, but what would be the alternatives for Android, Gmail, GMaps ?
Alternative for Android? puri.sm phone. DIY rpi phone. Gmail? Fastmail. GMaps? OpenStreetMaps/OsmAnd
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyone know how this works with IMAP? Does it just not show up in IMAP, otherwise forwarding etc. is trivial (ignoring the fact that you could just screenshot the message and send the screenshot)
I'm not sure that even will be available to non-Gmail users natively, probably you'll just see a link to check the message.
It can't be available as a message, only as a link, otherwise it wouldn't work. But in this case it shouldn't even be called an "e-mail", it only confuses people.
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#49Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently? I used to be super enthusiastic about every new update for everything(cool! more stuff!) but Android, Youtube and Windows 10 updates especially have made me extremely jaded - it feels like every update I either lose some functionality or something I used every day has now moved to a completely different place for no good reason. I seriously consider disablin…
> Am I the only one that dreads new product updates recently? I think that's a symptom that the person you're getting your updates from doesn't share your interests. I like updates to libre software, because the makers share my interest in having the best tool. Updates to Android, not so much. Or maybe you just want a stabler release channel — Debian stable instead of Rawhide — which, of course, web apps don't have.
*cough*systemd*cough*
*cough*gnome3*cough*
*cough*git*cough*
Re: A rundown of the new Gmail
#50It looks like the good things of Inbox are now in Gmail. That would explain the lack of updates on the Inbox iOS App (which still doesn't have proper iPhone X support)?
Let alone that the app is abysmally slow on an iPhone 5s. Even if your inbox (not "done" emails) features 7 emails and 3 new emails come in, the app doesn't even fetch them fully and loads them one-at-a-time upon opening.
And the inbox.google.com web interface does the exact same thing! It also gets stuck for several seconds when pressing "done" on a lone email in a group, showing an empty group for a while until it realizes "oh, there are no emails in this group" and finally disappears.
The app should be SIMPLE and FAST and it is currently neither. I am really thinking about returning to Gmail fully and using some other client for iOS.