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Google has a serious quality problem. Check out the link to the Google Groups page... 1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken). 2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999 3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose. 4.) Why all the wasted white space? Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of the…
You can scroll on the parts of the page... that scroll. The side bar and app bar are fixed (just like in GMail and a bunch of other Google properties now) so naturally the mouse wheel won't scroll them or the page.
Is google still investing resources in Google Groups? It doesn't look that way.
Google abandoned "Google" Groups (Usenet belongs to Google?) years ago and gave in to spammers.
Google Groups isn't just Usenet either -- they also allow creating private and public groups similar to Yahoo Groups.
Google has a serious quality problem. Check out the link to the Google Groups page... 1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken). 2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999 3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose. 4.) Why all the wasted white space? Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of the…
#1 and #2 Google should consider the scroll from any UI component; however, I have to wonder where you have drawn such a conclusion to 1999 UI/UX. You are seriously against fixed-position controls?
#3 You must have an axe to grind with Google and/or Gmail. At Gmail, the label-less buttons were daunting for all of one minute. In the case of Google Groups, the buttons are quite obvious and ubiquitous with their other properties. Again, if you at all use Google Apps, the buttons are a non-issue; are we going to complain about the obvious purpose of the "home" button on an iPhone?
Is google still investing resources in Google Groups? It doesn't look that way.
Is google still investing resources in Google Groups? It doesn't look that way.
- Search works much worse than either inside Gmail or googling a different web archive of a mailinglist (I think this has improved a bit recently, but before it was so broken as to be unusable) - The UI was clunky, and the new (half finished, there are still parts of the site with the old one) is even clunkier (why can't people at Google even give pages proper URLs?) - It is a spam cesspool, the only way to keep spam out of a group is to make every first email moderated, this again is strange given how well spam filtering works in Gmail.
I still tend to use it because the hassle of running a mailing list server is just not worth it, and for some reason I trusted Google wouldn't take it down any time soon (but given their track record with other products, I guess I was being naive), but is sad that Google is doing such a poor job with a product that easily could be much better.
Is google still investing resources in Google Groups? It doesn't look that way.
In the last year Groups has had pretty significant work done on improvements. A complete new AJAX based design, better moderation controls for forum owners, and even Q&A features that are being tested in some Google Support forums.
Google has a serious quality problem. Check out the link to the Google Groups page... 1.) Does not scroll with the mouse wheel unless you are in 'certain areas' of the page (aka broken). 2.) They are using Frames, like this is 1999 3.) Instead of easy-to-read button names, they are icons of unknown purpose. 4.) Why all the wasted white space? Google is a bunch of college smart alecs... you see that in the tone of the…
Not that I use Google Groups / Usenet from a browser often, but here it goes... #1 and #2 Google should consider the scroll from any UI component; however, I have to wonder where you have drawn such a conclusion to 1999 UI/UX. You are seriously against fixed-position controls? #3 You must have an axe to grind with Google and/or Gmail. At Gmail, the label-less buttons were daunting for all of one minute. In the case o…
#3 I do not want to mouse over everything to find out what button to click. I'd prefer it if they labeled the buttons.
I prefer interface design that isn't stupid.
That being said, looking at all the ways folks try to infiltrate PHP based forum groups using search engines to identify weak implementations I think its just part of the environment one has to live in.