Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful • Hacker News Board

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

#11

Post by throwaway5250 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC

You probably shouldn't be using Gmail anyway, so consider it a feature. :-)

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

#12

Post by subpixel » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:37 PM UTC

It's worse than 'new Reddit', and I need to look at it 100x more often every day.

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

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Post by forgot-my-pw » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #10

As much as the comments here are mostly leaning towards one side keep in mind that 99% of the users probably don't care and I'm sure they have the data to back this up.

There's always resistance to new changes, but if we never change, we can't innovate.

- just a user

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

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Post by mrfredward » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:38 PM UTC

The auto-expanding sidebar drives me nuts. I don't want to use the entire width of my widescreen monitor for reading an email, but I do want quick access to my folders.

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

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Post by zzzcpan » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

btkramer9 wrote: post #6

My biggest complaint is that everything takes longer. Loading the page, searching, etc. Everything feels slower.

Disable javascript and switch to basic html version. Personally basic html is the only reason I still tolerate gmail.

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

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Post by sp332 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #10

As much as the comments here are mostly leaning towards one side keep in mind that 99% of the users probably don't care and I'm sure they have the data to back this up.

I've been using GMail since 2004 and I'm not having any trouble, even in Firefox.

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

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Post by babuskov » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC

In don't mind the way it looks, I can live with that. But it's sooo slow. Much slower that previous interface. It loads slow and it works slow. Switching between inbox and another folder use to be instantaneous, now I actually have to wait. Opening messages, deleting, everything is slow.

And it looks like they removed the option to turn Undo off, so now I have to wait 5 seconds to my message to actually be sent.

I'm so used to Google products being fast and feeling almost like a desktop application. This new interface feels like a web app from 2000's. Makes me want to go back to using Thunderbird for mail.

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

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Post by hawski » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by awill » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

My problem is that often I click to read email and nothing happens. I need to refresh the whole page and click the email again. Happens in Chrome on both Mac and Linux.

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

#20

Post by joshuawright11 » Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:41 PM UTC

Is it really that bad...? It looks about the same as the old with a material coat of paint.