You should improve your vocabulary sagargv. Seriously.
Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
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Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#192I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
Google Photos is a very recent addition to Google Drive[1]. I'm not sure the change even rolled out to everyone yet and still not all my photos have been migrated. They used to be only availble through the bizarre web interface within Google+ that OP described. Despite that, I quite like Google's apps (and Google Apps). The month view in Calendar is back. The upgrade to Lollipop went smoothly for me and was a signifi…
I agree the not-yet-abandoned Google apps can be quite superb.
Provided you run them using the proprietary {AOL,Prodigy,CompuServe,MSN} client app.
a.k.a. Chrome.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#193The one thing I hate most is setting up my Google or Apple account on a new iOS/Android device.
I use a very long generated password with all kinds of special characters so what does Google do after you successfully entered the username/password on the device during the native setup flow? It opens a WebView where you have to enter it AGAIN!
And why do I have to enter my Apple ID password after every single OS update again? I can't imagine what security concern prompted them to do this to us.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#194You should hate your vocab too @sagargv. Seriously.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still frustrating ,because google did the hard part(storing 8 gb plus data) and mess up the easy part it's angering.
It's because Google was and is still an engineering organisation. For the most part they still don't understand UX or design, and when they do it's in some incredibly maligned product that no one wants.
I'm willing to bet on the opposite. I think it's engineers who understand how the product should work to be useful, but it's the sales and design people which screw this up because "hey, it's cooler / more shiny / will attract new people".
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> less features and control Oh there is more control. Just not for you, the user.
ps for the downvoter: My comment is entirely serious. Breaking the web for fun and profit, 101: The simplest example I can think of is the fact that in a standard google web search, "copy link address" does not give you the actual destination address, rather a google tracking link. Another: Image attachments in gmail. Now there's this overlay that asks you whether to download, open in google drive, or view in the gma…
Greasemonkey script to restore direct links:
https://gist.github.com/astanin/3782408
It was worth it to me to install Greasemonkey for this script alone.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#197User experience has always taken a back seat at Google.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#198The fact that this post is currently #3 on HN homepage and has ~100 comments in support is a strong indication to limit investment of time and effort in HN as a source of knowledge and HN community as a source of rational discussion. EDIT: 50 -> 100 comments. That rule about avoiding gratuitous negativity is obviously not working.
Or maybe, just maybe, it suggests that the author is right and said out loud what many of us secretly think.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's assuming users aren't resetting their locale. It's not uncommon for non english users to assume that the english version of a site is the real deal and their version is an inferior localization done by some backbenchers at whatever company made it. For example, here's a story about how the majority of power users in Poland use an english keyboard with specialized key bindings, because using a polish keyboard m…
It's. Lazy. Programming.
Yes. And folks have been trained to think that everyone not coding for en-us is double lazy.
Re: Did I ever mention that I fucking hate the fucking web
#200I think that for some time now Google's services are mostly crap. For example when I upgraded KitKat to Lollipop they fucked up my calendar. No month view? Seriously? Plus it always vibrates since silent mode is gone. I found this out the hard way. My phone is always in silent mode and after the upgrade one day it just vibrated off the desk and the display broke. I should sue Google for this. Anyway back to your issu…
I think the last UI decision google got right was the search box on the main page.
Nah, GMail was good. It still is, to be honest, compared to free webmail alternatives, but it keeps downgrading itself.