I genuinely hate the gmail interface - mobile especially. Completely unintuitive icons much of the time. Seems to do conversation threads poorly too.
Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#42Not directly related, but I reckon the mentality of some web developers I've complained to about their "appsites" being sluggish is similar here --- "it works perfectly fine for me, how about you upgrade your hardware?" I've heard that you can use http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ to get a basic HTML version.
Telling people to upgrade their hardware for an email application shouldn’t be a thing.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#43Yes. I was complaining into the air on twitter, and their support responded by asking me to clear the cache and cookie.
I told them: no man, it's not cache and cookies. You're loading too much stuff on initialization. It takes about 45 seconds for page load, and it's not until 1m37s that I can compose an email. You're making about 285 requests (19MB) before I can compose. That's the size of a long pop song on iTunes!
I've now bookmarked the old "html gmail" just so I can compose emails in a jiffy. I think they assume I leave a browser tab open for email. Not when it's so heavy weight.
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#44Sent feedback during the test phase that it was unusable (hangs while "loading...") on slower connections and average laptops. Still forced it on us.
Killing G+. Google Search "mini games" annoying eyesore (Winter Olympic ones crashed browser so switched to DuckDuckGo) Censorship in China. 20k Googlers protesting. WTF?!!
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
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#46Not directly related, but I reckon the mentality of some web developers I've complained to about their "appsites" being sluggish is similar here --- "it works perfectly fine for me, how about you upgrade your hardware?" I've heard that you can use http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ to get a basic HTML version.
Expecting people to revert to a 25 year old text version, and repeatedly demanding users to upgrade their Chrome version from a 6 month old one shouldn't be necessary either.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#47I use the content filter tabs (Social, Promotions, etc.).
Gmail refuses to let me move to a tab and mark new emails as read just about every time. It just hangs. I'll refresh and the same thing happens.
Multiple other issues as well.
Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?
#48I 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.
Agreed! I vote for this.
It's not just an issue of speed. The new gmail design is very hard to read/understand. Red-on-pink is not the best contrast choice. The icons feel fuzzy without the button borders, are hard to decode, and are too tight together.
Strangely, while the icons are all packed tightly, the email list wastes extra space vertically, and requires extra scrolling. Not the best design choice.
The high-contrast theme brings gmail close to the classic design, but it does not work well enough to make the icons more recognizable and recover the wasted space in the email list.
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