Google is discontinuing Inbox

Post by jfaat » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

samirm wrote: post #208

kaushalmodi wrote: post #95

These are really unfortunate news! :( My stress level just went up after opening gmail.com after few years since I switched to Inbox. Being used to just swiping emails that I didn't need to attend, I didn't realize they were still in "unread" status. Now when I opened Gmail, I see: Social 190 Updates 4,856 Forums 3,329 Promotions 4,214 The worst part is that I cannot see which of those "Unread" emails are pinned in I…

what's wrong with leaving emails unread?

Post by IvyMike » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:28 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #217

sethammons wrote: post #104

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It is a cycle. Google drops a product due to low uptick, so users don't take on further products. There are three products that I can think of that have lasted: search, email, ads (which is search, really). [edit] oh, and maps!

Voice. I've been using Voice for probably 10 years now. Most of the functionality has been subsumed by Hangouts, but it's still there and they even updated it within the last year.

Post by o_____________o » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:32 PM UTC

joshuamorton wrote: post #206

daxterspeed wrote: post #32

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The ability to mark emails as done or to pin them were hallmark features of the Inbox interface and they both take significantly more work in Gmail. I'm severely disappointed that they've decided to axe Inbox without at least pretending to care - by eg. providing a user survey.

Marking emails as done is just as easy in gmail as it was in inbox (I switched back a while ago). In inbox, swiping to "done" is equivalent to applying the archived label, which you can (in android and web, though apparently not ios), have swiping/closing the email do.

Post by nathancahill » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:34 PM UTC

cromwellian wrote: post #184

nathancahill wrote: post #2

Everyone suspected it for a while. Their active Twitter account refused for months to say when the app would be updated for the iPhone X. Personally, I suspect that they painted themselves into a bit of a corner with the tech stack they choose for Inbox. They used a unique C++ to JS compiler to run Inbox in the browser. This worked decently well in Chrome, but the experience in other browsers has been a lot choppier.…

There was no C++ to JS compiler used, it was Java compiled to Closure Compiler (J2CL) and Java compiles to Objective-C (j2objc) However only business logic is transpiled, the UI layer on every platform is written by hand in the native impedance matched language of the platform.

Post by hbcondo714 » Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 9:36 PM UTC

strunz wrote: post #192

fori1to10 wrote: post #125

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Most of these things are available in the new Gmail interface.

No they aren't. No automatic bundling of trips and purchases, no reminders (what happens to Inbox reminders?), and the UI is not as uncluttered and simple.