You can't honestly expect Gmail to support an old UI. New features are added to email all the time and it's far too complicated to develop too feature sets on two extremely dynamic code bases.
Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#122I 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.
I must have a super computer because it is blazing fast for me after an initial 1-2s load time.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#123At the risk of saying something unpopular, I like the new Gmail. I liked the previous Gmail too, so maybe I'm not the best judge. It is slightly slower, but I like the look and enjoy working in it. While I dream of doing it, I think it would be hard to PM something as popular as Gmail. Once you reach a nine figure user count, any change you make will be met with millions of unhappy people...
Please refrain from self judging what your response may be or may not be on HN. Just state what you think.
I urge you to read FAQ on HN etiquette.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#124I 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.
it's especially bad on Firefox. With that, and the fact that Google is killing Inbox, it feels like time to look for alternatives.
Sure, but where? There are not that much email providers that will live forever and won't change your UX and have mobile apps, and... and...
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#125I 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.
I dont have any issues. Lighting fast.
Maybe they put you in a test bucket.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#126I 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.
Agreed. It is extremely slow, esp. on older computers to the point of being unusable. Another app reinvents the wheel and becomes useless.
Yeah my Commodore has issues with Gmail as well.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#127I 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.
I must have a super computer because it is blazing fast for me after an initial 1-2s load time.
Hmm. I haven't perceived any slow down. Especially not like others here are saying. Gmail still seems pretty quick to me.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
#128When I realized I can't go back to normal UI, I immediatly downloaded Thunderbird and went back to e-mail clients. I won't bother with the new gmail. Fonts look horrible, it is slower and in the end there is less information density.
Did they take away the ability to use the old UI? I still have a menu item under settings that says "Go back to classic Gmail"
Re: Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful
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#130I use the old html version, amazingly it's not even possible to bulk delete emails! Which is the one thing you'd want to do with email.