Goodbye Gmail
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Goodbye Gmail
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Re: Goodbye Gmail
#2I don't have any of this experience with GMail. Not saying it doesn't have flaws - but my experience is pretty great.
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#3I don't have any of this experience with GMail. Not saying it doesn't have flaws - but my experience is pretty great.
Thanks for the data point - I've spoken with others and it's been a mixed bag - some say it's slow and others don't. I wonder how much of it is perception of speed vs actual speed. Can you try reloading it and seeing how long it takes to load?
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#4I've noticed maps is considerably slower and less responsive. Google has become corporatized so I'm keeping my expectations in check.
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#5Using the "Why is X" Google autosuggest as proof is meaningless, no one searches for "why is gmail so great" and the same suggestions come up for all popular products and services.
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#6I have recently made the switch from Gmail to Fastmail as well, and I couldn't be happier. They don't have all the features (calendars are coming soon!), but they also don't have Google+.
In my experience it's a lot faster, both web and IMAP are extremely fast. While the storage is smaller than Gmail I don't find this an issue.
I haven't used the XMPP servers yet, but it seems to have the same features as non-hangouts GTalk.
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#7Using the "Why is X" Google autosuggest as proof is meaningless, no one searches for "why is gmail so great" and the same suggestions come up for all popular products and services.
Yea you're right - it's definitely a biased sample but still shows others are experiencing it to some degree.
I do the same check for "why is fastmail" and get "why is fastmail down" - I suppose slow is better than down.
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#8I don't have any of this experience with GMail. Not saying it doesn't have flaws - but my experience is pretty great.
Sitting here thinking the same thing ..
Can't say I've ever had performance issues or even a moments downtime whilst using gmail since it was launched.
Is a paid vs. free solution even comparable?
It's also a bit weird to compare the requests made on initial load considering these web pages are arguably meant to be kept open- but regardless, shouldn't the browser be caching these?
I think a more fair & thorough comparison would be to investigate what gmail has that other solutions don't by introducing the larger initial overhead. I'm guessing a lot of cross platform compatibility code and plenty of code to integrate to Google's other services.
In which case, I would say if you are concerned about the initial page load and having more responsive interface (once again, no complaints here) and don't need integration to Google's ecosystem, you may not be the target customer for gmail. Which is okay.
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#9Well if we're offering our suggestions for alternatives, I'll throw Outlook.com in the hat. I use it daily and find it as easy to use as Gmail, if not easier. Perhaps it's missing a few features that Gmail's got going for it like the tabs - but that doesn't bother me that much.
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#10Passing judgment based on a "why is ..." auto-complete suggestion seems flawed, as the searches are heavily biased to the negative end.