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

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

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Post by mshenfield » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:50 AM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #10

On Firefox it’s unusable for quick work (open, quickly manage emails, close). The interface is noticeably slower than the classic UI. It’s maddening. Not sure what I’m going to do when it switches over for our Google Apps account. Any alternatives people like?

This exactly. On Firefox Nightly, time to first interaction for me is 30 seconds.

I've found myself going to gmail.com, searching for something, and then waiting 30 seconds for "Loading..."to transform to "Something's not right". I've just started doing all reading on the Android app.

It's still easier for me to write at my laptop than on my phone, so this miserable experience happens to me multiple times a week. I've started to deeply despise the webapp.

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

#32

Post by sj4nz » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:50 AM UTC

I have mostly stopped using Google Gmail because they still can't do something simple like... I don't know... sort by sender? They keep changing the interface, but they never seem to improve the utility.

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

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Post by DonnyV » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

It probably uses Angular. :-0

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

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Post by busterarm » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:53 AM UTC

I get drastically different performance using Google's services between Firefox and Chrome.

I had instant responses in Chrome for Gmail, Chat/Hangouts, Calendar, etc.

In Firefox? 4-6 second wait for _every_ interaction.

And I don't think the fault is with Firefox here...

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

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Post by bunderbunder » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:56 AM UTC

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #23

Welcome to 2018, friend, where we have several orders of magnitude more computing power and somehow everything is less responsive. It's all accomplished through an advanced process called "Software Engineering".

More specifically, sluggish websites seem to result from the popularity of "responsive design".

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

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

unstatusthequo wrote: post #7

All snark aside... You get what you pay for. I am slowly moving away from Google services. Paying in some cases reduces functions you might be used to, but also introduces freedom of ownership (well, maybe). But overall we are spoiled and I prefer using non mainstream services now.

Plenty of us pay for Gmail, via Google Apps / G Suite.

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

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Post by esotericn » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:57 AM UTC

I don't use Gmail, but Google Maps seems to be getting slower and slower all the time for me on some of my older boxes.

I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines, and the market share factor meaning they just don't really have to care.

I develop on a 12 core processor. If I make something user facing, I have to go out of my way to ensure that it's performant on other hardware; it's not part of the standard build/tweak loop.

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

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Post by arkitaip » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 1:58 AM UTC

Guest9812398 wrote: post #15

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…

They have invested so many billions in their pipeline and committed so much head space that it's incredibly difficult to change their tech stack to improve performance. Users suffer because of poor performance but at least management can brag about compliance, code reuse, being able to quickly push out production code, etc.

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

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Post by aurizon » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:00 AM UTC

mjhayter wrote: post #26

One setting I found that has made the new interface slightly more bearable is turning off "Hover actions" under the General tab. It gets rid of that awful box-shadow that makes scanning down the list difficult.

Thanks, I turned off that and a bunch of the frothy features in the options, and it sped up enormously.

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

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Post by nkkollaw » Mon, Nov 05, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

bunderbunder wrote: post #35

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #23

Welcome to 2018, friend, where we have several orders of magnitude more computing power and somehow everything is less responsive. It's all accomplished through an advanced process called "Software Engineering".

More specifically, sluggish websites seem to result from the popularity of "responsive design".

How, exactly..?