Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#11

Post by MiddleEndian » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

A week or two after reverting back to the usable gmail, Google notified me they would switch my Google apps mail to the new gmail in a popup on the corner.

It presented me with two options: Now, Delay One Week.

Instead of choosing one, I adblocked the notification. Two weeks later I'm still on the old gmail that responds to clicks. Hoping it never changes.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#12

Post by reneherse » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:36 AM UTC

Yes! And the recent versions of Chrome on macOS are equally bad.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#13

Post by jlarocco » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:37 AM UTC

No, I don't use GMail.

Fastmail is great, though.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#14

Post by mrhappyunhappy » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:39 AM UTC

I can’t stand the new gmail to the point where I check my email only once a day. Every time I open that interface I get enraged. I am a UX designer and the new UI is a total clusterfuck - something you’d expect to fire someone over. Big G really messed this one up and I suspect many feel this way. If they have any sense left at all they’ll add the old view option back or revert completely.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#15

Post by Guest9812398 » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:39 AM UTC

It seems like almost everything Google related is sluggish. The new Google AdSense, the new Google Analytics, the new Google DoubleClick for Publishers, and to a lesser extent, the new Google Maps. These are all products I use that perform worse now (on modern hardware) compared to a decade ago. I really don't understand how this happens. Does no one at Google notice some of these services literally taking 10 seconds to load simple pages?

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#16

Post by jorblumesea » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:40 AM UTC

I dislike Google's preference for making their experiences optimal on chrome. Gmail and youtube both seem to run faster on Chrome. It feels very monopolistic that their services run best with each other and poorly on the competition. It's probably not intentional, but very frustrating.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#17

Post by snek » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:41 AM UTC

MiddleEndian wrote: post #11

A week or two after reverting back to the usable gmail, Google notified me they would switch my Google apps mail to the new gmail in a popup on the corner. It presented me with two options: Now, Delay One Week. Instead of choosing one, I adblocked the notification. Two weeks later I'm still on the old gmail that responds to clicks. Hoping it never changes.

i wish i had thought of this

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#18

Post by bennettfeely » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:41 AM UTC

Not only sluggish but I couldn't stand the custom font, it makes reading paragraphs of text a headache.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#19

Post by technofiend » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

Seriously considering going back to imap+MH.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

#20

Post by aerovistae » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:42 AM UTC

MiddleEndian wrote: post #11

A week or two after reverting back to the usable gmail, Google notified me they would switch my Google apps mail to the new gmail in a popup on the corner. It presented me with two options: Now, Delay One Week. Instead of choosing one, I adblocked the notification. Two weeks later I'm still on the old gmail that responds to clicks. Hoping it never changes.

God damn that was clever of you.