I bet you this post will let FastMail steal a dozen users from Gmail. Any affiliation, @dangoldin? :P
Ha I wish. I'm not even paying for Fastmail yet =) Still have 55 days before I need to.
Goodbye Gmail
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#32reads like an informercial.
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#33I 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-hangout…
Yeah I switched to Fastmail about a year ago for myself + my family members (using the Family plan with custom domain). Have had absolutely zero regrets.
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#34I have gmail open in a couple of tabs pretty much for weeks. Were I to actually close and reopen chrome, the vast bulk of the resources would be cached. This seems to be optimizing an artificial. Or maybe an irrelevant is a better word. It's like measuring Windows boot times -- as is so common with each iteration -- when recovery from sleep is far more relevant to most people now. Further, and this may sound overly c…
Not everyone leaves their browsers open when they're at the computer. I don't, and on a 100/100 connection, from click to inbox open it takes me almost 7 seconds. I tried it twice on all 3 of my gmail accounts with varying results, but none faster than 5.
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#35You know Gmail is free? And Fastmail costs $$$?
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#36This article may be a little biased but as a user of Gmail and Outlook I can agree that Gmail is sluggish to a certain extent. Outlook's interface made managing my email much simpler and straight to the point. I have not come across issues about Microsoft's server not playing nice with email clients. Yes Outlook may not have as many features as compared to Gmail but it does what it says on the tin, and does it well in my case.
I am going to have a look at Fastmail as an alternative to Gmail and Outlook.
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#37Using 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.
Lucky he didn't do a "why is fastmail" search :).
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#38gmail: free
fastmail: paid
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#39Using 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.
Lucky he didn't do a "why is fastmail" search :).
Haha - I just did one "why is fastmail down". Gmail has that as the #2 spot so I consider it a tie =)
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#40Passing judgment based on a "why is ..." auto-complete suggestion seems flawed, as the searches are heavily biased to the negative end.
That was more of a fun thing to add - the actual performance is noticeably slower for me. Both loading and navigating take a longer amount of time in Gmail. Probably should have just left that out since everyone seems to be drawn to disproving that particular point.