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Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by deltron3030 »

JamesAdir wrote: post #43

The UI is horrible and it has already been discussed in many places, but to me the slowness is the no.1 problem. I thought it was just a hiccup when they had it on optional mode, but now it's plain slow. I've tried on different connections and different browsers and they all seem to generate the same result. Super slow loading times of the interface and the emails. I still remember when gmail was the fastest kid on t…

It could be a hardware thing though, that your GPU can't make use of hardware acceleration.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by Fronzie »

Nicksil wrote: post #7

It just force-updated for me. I had clicked the "wait two weeks" (or however many weeks) prompts, delaying the inevitable, but had thought I would at least still be able to click the "revert" button as soon as the change occurred. There was no button this time. So I clicked through to the "simple HTML" version as soon as the link presented itself at the bottom of the fancy new splash screen and have been a little les…

The Gmail plugin for thunderbird works well. For me that's the first step away. Next step is arange a imap account somewhere.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by tomcooks »

djsumdog wrote: post #39
dreamcompiler wrote: post #26

Same thing happened with Google maps a couple of years ago. They changed the UI to one a lot less functional, gave users an option to use the old UI for a while, then took it away. Now we're stuck with gmaps that are much worse than they used to be. Product managers at Google (and everywhere else) don't get promoted for leaving good products alone.

The layout takes up more of the screen, which I kinda like, but my issue was always how terrible terribly slow it is now. It's so laggy, compared to competitors like Here and OSM. The Fruit co could probably give Google a run if they opened up a web version. Google Maps on Android is almost entirely unusable now. It's so god damn slow on my Sony Z5c running Lineage. The combination of Maps and Google Services updates…

It's the 3d globe view that is slowing maps down on my old hardware.

OSM fortunately doesnt have this problem, nor does Mapscii.

For your phone try OSMand if you haven't already, you can find it on FDroid

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by system2 »

begriffs wrote: post #31

Why not use a desktop/mobile mail client of your choice to access gmail over open protocols? Then they can clown up the web UI all they want and it won't matter to you.

If you are using multiple machines, your desktop client will be a huge headache to set up each. Business computers at work have outlook, but personally, I cannot use the client(s) for my 6+ separate computers. Browser email is the way to go.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by EGreg »

djsumdog wrote: post #39
dreamcompiler wrote: post #26

Same thing happened with Google maps a couple of years ago. They changed the UI to one a lot less functional, gave users an option to use the old UI for a while, then took it away. Now we're stuck with gmaps that are much worse than they used to be. Product managers at Google (and everywhere else) don't get promoted for leaving good products alone.

The layout takes up more of the screen, which I kinda like, but my issue was always how terrible terribly slow it is now. It's so laggy, compared to competitors like Here and OSM. The Fruit co could probably give Google a run if they opened up a web version. Google Maps on Android is almost entirely unusable now. It's so god damn slow on my Sony Z5c running Lineage. The combination of Maps and Google Services updates…

Does anyone know a good web based OpenStreetMap renderer? And a service that hosts tiles for it? I just wanted to make something like Google Maps Navigation but web based. Google Maps doesn’t really let you rotate the maps by heading, and more. We did some hacks but I would like more control!

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by tomcooks »

debaserab2 wrote: post #53
dreamcompiler wrote: post #26

Same thing happened with Google maps a couple of years ago. They changed the UI to one a lot less functional, gave users an option to use the old UI for a while, then took it away. Now we're stuck with gmaps that are much worse than they used to be. Product managers at Google (and everywhere else) don't get promoted for leaving good products alone.

What functionality did the old google maps have that the current one doesn't?

For one it was fast and didn't make my laptop have a stroke

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by system2 »

Nicksil wrote: post #38
badminton1 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This only means many users are upset. But even if they were 100,000, that would be a small fraction of the user base and you could still say the user base is either indifferent or satisfied with the change.

>But even if they were 100,000 That would still be representative. A sample. I don't understand your argument.

Simply put, normies count. Not us. Even if 1% (few million users?) are upset now, this wouldn't make google change their mind serving 99% unaware users.

Re: Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

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Post by stonogo »

system2 wrote: post #70
djsumdog wrote: post #47

In 2012 I switched back to running my own e-mail. I realize there are reliability issues sending stuff out to Google/Microsoft (and yes, I have the correct DKIM, SPF and DMARC records), but I'm still happier running my own. I use Thunderbird and Roundcube, but I could also use Evolution if I wanted to or Microsoft Mail on my Windows machine or even fire up Squirlmail in a docker container.

Overcomplicated for an average user. Doesn't apply to 99.99% of the population unfortunately.

Good thing he posted it to hackernews then, which is full of people to whom it CAN apply.
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