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> Important: To use the new view, you must turn on Chat in Gmail and set Chat to the left hand panel. Learn how to turn on Chat in Gmail. "c'mon, use our messaging products again"
How many of these have they killed already? Google Talk, Google Pie, Google Plus to an extent. Which ones am I missing?
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Google launched IMAP for Gmail fifteen years ago. Use that if you want stasis.
No offense to Google, imap is inferior to both JAMP and Gmail's REST API for present day messaging and integration purposes. Google's IMAP implementation also has some...quirks.
It's funny that right now there isn't a single comment that mentions something positive about the new interface. It's either completely terrible or - more likely - people hate change.
This isn't.
Stop messing with my UX! Stability is a feature!
How many (HN) Gmail users still use the Gmail interface? I remember giving up on it as a primary interface in the mid-to-late '00s, my laptop was crappy and the interface had slowed down so much that it was nearly unusable. There was visible lag while typing a message on my circa 2003 cheap HP laptop (I was a student, it was what I could afford). It was like getting sent back to 1996 and typing out documents in Word…
When I transitioned away from the gmail app, I also transitioned away from using gmail as my primary account. (Though this took a rather long time to completely migrate).
I used the gmail app on my phone over IMAP for much longer, but stopped that when some update made it so that I couldn't send plaintext emails from my phone anymore. All emails were html --- and I detest html email.
There is one exception. When I want to search old emails, I'll open up gmail and search. I don't have a good search setup for my old emails.
> Important: To use the new view, you must turn on Chat in Gmail and set Chat to the left hand panel. Learn how to turn on Chat in Gmail. "c'mon, use our messaging products again"
How many of these have they killed already? Google Talk, Google Pie, Google Plus to an extent. Which ones am I missing?
> Important: To use the new view, you must turn on Chat in Gmail and set Chat to the left hand panel. Learn how to turn on Chat in Gmail. "c'mon, use our messaging products again"
How many of these have they killed already? Google Talk, Google Pie, Google Plus to an extent. Which ones am I missing?
> Important: To use the new view, you must turn on Chat in Gmail and set Chat to the left hand panel. Learn how to turn on Chat in Gmail. "c'mon, use our messaging products again"
How many of these have they killed already? Google Talk, Google Pie, Google Plus to an extent. Which ones am I missing?
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html gmail works. You used to be able to set it as your default view (well, you still can technically), but they stopped respecting that setting and just send you to the javascript one now anyway. Still, if you change your URL manually after logging in (and possibly answer a prompt of "do you really want to use html gmail?" with yes), you can still get to it, and it's the same interface as ever.
> Still, if you change your URL manually after logging in You can also bookmark the modified URL, or (what I do) have it always open as an "unloaded"/suspended tab that you can click to load.