Also works much more reliably in foreign countries where Google services may be slow/blocked
Goodbye Gmail
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#22I'm still using Gmail, but I'm frequently struck that every change they make to it is almost intentionally making it worse.
In fact sometimes I feel that way about a lot of Google's products.
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#23I 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 cynical, posts that proselytize a change should have a HN minimum required period before they can be submitted. Saying "I changed from {x} to {y} this past weekend, and boy is everything awesome now!" are invariably followed by the requisite post detailing how much of a mistake moving to {y} was.
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#24It takes 6 seconds for you to load Gmail? Where do you live? I feel sorry for you bro.
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#25Using 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.
That, and your search results (and auto-completes) are personalized.
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#26I 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…
I'm a fastmail switcher, too. $40/yr.
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#27I bet you this post will let FastMail steal a dozen users from Gmail. Any affiliation, @dangoldin? :P
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#28Having made the switch to Fastmail a while ago, I agree with the comments - mostly. While Fastmail is fantastic, it lacks the implementation polish of Gmail. Two-factor authentication is there, but not via a popup like on gmail. You have to enter it in the web-form. This is a hassle, because I use LastPass and it's a bit fiddly. Further, under Fastmail you create new logins in addition to the master account password.…
Thanks for sharing - I'm only a few days in but have really enjoyed the snappiness and simplicity. I do wish it had better calendar support (for that I'm still on Google) and a bit more polish but so far I'm glad to pay for it.
The spam point is interesting - I plan on using Fastmail for my important personal stuff and gmail with forwarding for everything else. Hopefully that will make for a good tradeoff.
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#29Why wouldn't you just use imap in an email client? I don't see any benefit to using a cloud email service when you can just host email easily on a cloud server..
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#30Not yet ready for a switch? There is still a simple, clean, basic Gmail https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ For more light weighted https://mail.google.com/mail/x/
Yeah, it's time we go back to the basics. The html version is lot faster.