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Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by bobinux »

Is it just me or does the new Gmail UI feel sluggish/unresponsive? Scrolling the mail list is lagging a bit, the left side menu takes time to initiate the appear animation and the animation itself is too fast. When hovering the mouse over mail list, the interaction icons do the lagging effect, which is really not nice for eyes.

However the right side menu for Tasks, Calendar and etc. is nice, I like having them in one place instead of keeping multiple diff tabs open.

I'm not sure if this lag effect is intentional or a performance problem, maybe React instead of Angular could help :D

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by dheera »

Where is this "unprintable e-mail" and "self-disappearing e-mail" feature? I don't see the options on my Gmail. I would love to write a Chrome plugin to destroy these features.

Once information enters my premises, I do whatever the hell I want with it as long as I'm not sharing it with others or violating any NDAs. In particular, you do not get to define the media and methods I use to access, consume, and save information. You just get to send me a binary number containing information, and it's your choice whether you want to do that or not. That's it.

If you don't agree to me having personal freedom, don't send me information and don't contact me.

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by PebblesRox »

fuzzy2 wrote: post #187
8ytecoder wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using Google Inbox since the launch and I absolutely LOVE it. It finally solved my email problems. - I have notifications disabled for all but the important emails. So I respond to emails in time and I don't keep checking my phone anymore. - Easy to read and discard emails. Especially promotions. I actually do check them - once a day and once a day only and then delete them all. - Social/Updates ...etc ar…

Inbox is great, no doubt. The recent update to the iOS app is super terrible though. It does away with navigation gestures (swiping up/down) and many animations. It also no longer has an iPad layout.

I’m glad the swiping up and down isn’t a thing anymore because I used to lose my place scrolling through long emails and email threads when I’d try to scroll and accidentally swipe out of the email.

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by chipperyman573 »

zamber wrote: post #180
freehunter wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My problem with it is that I don't trust it. Outlook does the same thing, I'm not singling Google out for this. Anything that automatically sorts my email for me, I don't trust it to get it right 100% of the time. And the last thing I want to do is a miss a critical email because Google or Microsoft told me it wasn't important to me. Case in point: I run a website for my town and some user actions are sent to me via…

The idea with whitelisting is viable. Use a freehunter+superimportant@gmail.com email for these and then in the classic interface set a filter that will land these mails always in your inbox with an additional label. Been doing this kind of categorizing with filters since I discovered the feature and never looked back.

>then in the classic interface set a filter that will land these mails always in your inbox with an additional label

I've been using inbox for about a year or two now and this is my biggest complaint - you can't do a lot of poweruser stuff without going back to gmail! Once you set it up, inbox will do it (ex, setting up a filter in gmail filters in inbox as well), but there's no inbox interface of doing it. Other than that, it's great (it used to be relatively slow as well but either I've gotten used to it or they've sped it up).

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by cup-of-tea »

tgb wrote: post #126

The author's experience with GMail seems to be the opposite of mine. The new features for disappearing/unprintable/etc. emails sound like they're just going to cause annoyances while Gmail sorting things into promotions and updates is absolutely fantastic . And I use the "forums" tab too. This is the "good method for telling users what they need to read" that the author wants - that's what Primary is. This is the way…

The promotion sorting etc is awful. Have people never used email filters? We've had the ability to precisely design filters for decades already. I already have filters for the various mailing lists and forums I read.

I enabled some of the filters and it put an amazon update in with the spam so I missed my delivery. What else could you miss?

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by sssparkkk »

Been thinking of switching back from Inbox to Gmail for one single annoying and IMO stupid design decision: if there are multiple recepients for the email the main reply button will by default perform a reply all. Had me look like a dork a few times, replying to everyone that I can't make it to a party or something.

Anyone else been bitten by this?

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by nashadelic »

cup-of-tea wrote: post #196
tgb wrote: post #126

The author's experience with GMail seems to be the opposite of mine. The new features for disappearing/unprintable/etc. emails sound like they're just going to cause annoyances while Gmail sorting things into promotions and updates is absolutely fantastic . And I use the "forums" tab too. This is the "good method for telling users what they need to read" that the author wants - that's what Primary is. This is the way…

The promotion sorting etc is awful. Have people never used email filters? We've had the ability to precisely design filters for decades already. I already have filters for the various mailing lists and forums I read. I enabled some of the filters and it put an amazon update in with the spam so I missed my delivery. What else could you miss?

When the inbox categorization system was rolled out by Gmail, I thought this was over engineering and the average person wouldn't need this.

Fast forward an year later, I'm surprised how good it works. My inbox is filtered clean of all "secondary" email. You might have some false positives and you have to tell the system that Amazon deliveries go to Updates not Promotions etc. But I wouldn't want to go to the world before the categorizations.

Re: What happened, Gmail?

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Post by coldtea »

pmlnr wrote: post #189
jadeklerk wrote: post #173

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+1 to this. You have to realize that over a billion users use gmail. You can't possibly imagine that prioritizing .0000000001% of users that know about something like filtering on custom headers is remotely good decision-making against all the other work being done that helps the majority of users.

I have Gmail at work, and I can't filter on list ID in the header. Gmail is not just simple users, it's also corporate who's paying for it.

It's not like 99% of corporate users know about headers and header filters either.
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