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

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Post by seba_dos1 »

delbel wrote: post #42

GMail one day decided to no longer show my emails from my customers in my Inbox -- I have to search for them one-by-one. So every few hours I have to search for keywords. I also get gmail from another account, and he gets mine. At least it is not as bad as Skype. Woke up one day a week ago, hit Upgrade, and now Skype doesn't work -- whatsoever. Nothing I can do. Essentially if I didn't have experience as a level 3 su…

As much as I don't like the new GMail, this sounds like a bad filter rule and a classic case of PEBCAK.

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

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Post by elboru »

hawski wrote: post #18

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.

Painfully slow, that's how I describe it too. Right now I'm on a remote location, where internet is delivered by antennas, bandwidth is not much of a problem but latency is high. I've got used to it for most sites, but not with Gmail, Gmail is an exception, it makes me doubt if I lost connection or not, so I usually open HN to test it and 99% of the time it's Gmail's fault not my connection's. I prefer to use Inbox since it loads twice as fast, too bad Google is shooting it down soon.

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

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Post by hello_asdf »

vemv wrote: post #34

I hope they're not removing the revert option for Classic UI :( Having an API unable to support two clients (Classic and New) would be embarassing from an engineering POV. And from an UX POV, it really lacks empathy (or realism) to assume that the same exact UI will be useful/pleasant to literally 1 billion users. There are all kind of reasons why a given person might prefer UI a to b ( a being older having nothing t…

I don't have revert option anymore.

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

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Post by fluiux »

hawski wrote: post #18

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.

Same. I hope keeping the previous design as an option won't be removed.

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

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Post by kgwxd »

Ugg, everything was doing great with "flat design", I knew that wasn't going to last, designers have to justify their position every few years after all. I don't use Chrome often but I notices the bubbly round crap was making a come back. I wouldn't care about the gmail change, because I don't use the web interface often, but this company-wide redesign likely means everyone else will be following suit. Mozilla, if you're listening, please don't, you were always a cycle behind anyway, just stick with what you've got.

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

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Post by erikb »

kroltan wrote: post #31

Get Thunderbird (or any other standalone email app). Extremely traditional UI, and better responsiveness due to no frill JS and no tracking. Bonus, even read your emails offline! Innovation!

there are single(!) player games now that advertise that you can play them without internet connection, as a feature.

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

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Post by thrower123 »

thrower123 wrote: post #27

I have one browser tab that hasn't been refreshed since before this travesty was dropped. I'm going to try to keep that one going as long as possible... The unnecessary animations irk me. I'm clocking 5-10 seconds to load and render my inbox, on a quad-core i7 with oodles of RAM and a fat network pipe. Whereas the basic view loads in 700 ms...

By the time the new UI has loaded in and stopped churning, I'm up to 225 requests, pulling down over 5mb. Most of these seem to be tiny pngs for button icons... Why aren't these spritesheeted?

Basic view is 9 requests for 24 kb...

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

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Post by emperorfin »

Here's how I had been using the old Gmail UI or HTML view for several years now. Simply login to your Gmail account. You should see a URL similar to https://mail.google.com/mail/mu/... in your browser address bar, just simply change the mu to h and hit enter. You will be taken to the old UI or html view.
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