I don't seem to have any reliability issues, however, it's probably because I'm a Google Apps premier user. If I'm not mistaken those accounts have higher uptime and reliability.
Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
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#12I think "reach out to" as a weird, touchy-feely synonym for "contact" is my least favorite business buzzword. I can't take anyone who says it seriously. I immediately assume they are full of shit.
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#13I think "reach out to" as a weird, touchy-feely synonym for "contact" is my least favorite business buzzword. I can't take anyone who says it seriously. I immediately assume they are full of shit.
It's still better than "ping" as a synonym for "call"
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#14Ok, some of you dont like Gmail, but i guess lots of people would be happy to hear and try a good alternative, with same features or more (custom filters, labels, powerful search, beautiful clever spam filter, accessible from any computer, phone sync, contacts manager, chat, etc).
Really, I cant see me working with another email provider, and being enclosed to one is not usually a good choice, it would be nice to try other alternatives
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#15Not so much so. Still takes me about 10 seconds to login via the web on a fast connection. I rarely use the web interface so I don't really care but I can see how this is an issue for some people. Google Notifier is probably the best solution for now.
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#16This issue may be fixed, but Gmail's slowness is definitely not fixed. And affects way more than 2% of people on Gmail.
Like Michael, neither have I ever experienced any speed issues, although I don't sort or filter things. Gmail loads in less than a second, and opening an email appears effectively instantaneous.
On the topic of filters: I have over 200. It's more reliable than spam filtering (in the sense that I know I wont ever get an email from them again, and I don't have to worry about if that link is going to put my email on some "verified" to-spam list). So I doubt filters have anything to do with it ;) That's all handled on Google's backend.
On a side note, I do recall a few theories that were related to account age. Accounts opened around the same time seemed to be affected (as I read, anyway). This is a possible situation, however, it's almost impossible to know for sure.
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#17It is interesting to see GMail advocates saving a few seconds a day by using this and that features of GMail, while itself getting slower and slower over the time. I find myself stupid to wait 10 seconds just to load up GMail to quickly look up something. Why I am wasting these 10 seconds loading up a webapp when 99.9% of the time I am using my own computer? You say running a desktop email client with GMail IMAP? The…
Gmail loads within 1-3 seconds for me. Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser, not even once a day if I can help it. So my mail is always available for me. Priority Inbox is amazing, as well. In regards to iPhone: Simply get an Android phone. Flawless Gmail/GoogleApps integration; native support for colored labels, calendar, etc. I wouldn't clal it half-baked IMAP, more of, half-baked clients that don't…
"Simply get an Android phone".. In your reply replace Gmail with Exchange and Android phone with Outlook and we would bring out the pitchforks decrying vendor lock-in. Exchange works fine for my work email, IMAP works fine for my Yahoo account and somehow it is the client's fault it doesn't "support Gmail properly". Of course, this data is equally meaningless as yours as the sample size is 1.
Re: Google Confirms Gmail Speed Issue, Says It’s Now Fixed
#18Not so much so. Still takes me about 10 seconds to login via the web on a fast connection. I rarely use the web interface so I don't really care but I can see how this is an issue for some people. Google Notifier is probably the best solution for now.
I think it further proves the point that when you are no longer the underdog, it is hard for you to compete, stay fast and nimble, and stay innovative. Buzz and other Google-initiated (not acquisitions) forays into competing products have been disappointments. AdWords is no longer easy to use from the customer standpoint (and by the way, you searchers and AdWords supported email users are not the customers--you are part of the product being sold), that we have had to hire a full time guy to manage our AdWords campaigns and utilize outside AdWords consultant services.
I won't say Google has lost its touch, but even its searches are not producing good results for esoteric queries.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gmail loads within 1-3 seconds for me. Not only that, I VERY, VERY rarely close my browser, not even once a day if I can help it. So my mail is always available for me. Priority Inbox is amazing, as well. In regards to iPhone: Simply get an Android phone. Flawless Gmail/GoogleApps integration; native support for colored labels, calendar, etc. I wouldn't clal it half-baked IMAP, more of, half-baked clients that don't…
"Simply get an Android phone".. In your reply replace Gmail with Exchange and Android phone with Outlook and we would bring out the pitchforks decrying vendor lock-in. Exchange works fine for my work email, IMAP works fine for my Yahoo account and somehow it is the client's fault it doesn't "support Gmail properly". Of course, this data is equally meaningless as yours as the sample size is 1.
When you change the way IMAP works for the better (a feature), then yes, the client should support it. If it doesn't, it's not a fault of the service, it's a fault of the client.
I mean, have you ever used labels? I mean, REALLY used labels?
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#20I think "reach out to" as a weird, touchy-feely synonym for "contact" is my least favorite business buzzword. I can't take anyone who says it seriously. I immediately assume they are full of shit.
I hadn't realized until really recently that it had accumulated this buzzwordy usage, so I used to assume the person writing just wasn't very good at English and had misunderstood the connotations of the phrase.
Unless I've been completely wrong about its meaning for years, "reach out to" implies more of a process, rather than simply asking a question. If you say you plan to "reach out to the city's troubled youth", people would assume you meant something more than just asking some troubled youth a few questions.
In this case, I don't see what's wrong with saying: we asked Google why Gmail has been slow, and this was their response. "Reached out ... with the following statement" feels sorta like an oxymoron.