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

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Post by binarymax »

deltron3030 wrote: post #71
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.

It's hilarious and sad that we should need GPU hardware acceleration for email.

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

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Post by manigandham »

deltron3030 wrote: post #71
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.

That is a ridiculous requirement for an email webapp.

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

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Post by diminish »

dschuler wrote: post #37

Scrolling the list of emails is very choppy on Safari, and works on Chrome and Firefox. How annoying. We're entering a new browser monoculture where something only has to work on Chrome :/ I think it's a good time to test out a few self-hosted email clients, perhaps storing emails on a mail server that retrieves incoming mail from gmail, and sends out via gmail as well to avoid the authentication/blacklisting/spam fi…

on firefox, it doesn't open the message, when i click on it after search. i had to revert back to html.

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

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Post by ravenstine »

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…

I've found this to be true of every piece of Google software. The only app by Google I still have on my phone is Gmail, and that's because I haven't updated it in a really long time. Everything else I've replaced with some alternative.

I'm not sure why you think such a company needs to exist. Almost all apps run fine on my Samsung Galaxy S5, except for anything made by Google or Samsung. With Samsung I think their software engineering is incompetent, but I think with Google there's probably a lot of pressure to "just make it work" that the engineers mostly test on the latest and greatest Android. Plus I'm sure there's an unspoken rule not to allow older phones to be too useful for too long.

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

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Post by pmlnr »

deltron3030 wrote: post #71
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.

When an email client needs hw acceleration, they are doing it wrong.

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

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Post by matthewmacleod »

itake wrote: post #18
alphakappa wrote: post #11

Everyone hates UI changes. Wait 6 months and it will be the new normal.

Seriously, every time big company does large UX change, there is a post like this asking how to revert. Sources: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020032... Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/redesign/comments/8w03ms/is_it_poss...

I think this response often comes up in response to complaints about UI changes. Sometimes it’s a valid response, and people are just being resistant to change. Sometimes the changes are genuinely bad. The point is - the fact that people complain about everything doesn’t mean that some of the things they complain about aren’t legitimate problems!

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

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Post by xkcd-sucks »

erikb wrote: post #55

The thing is that someone saying "I don't like the new UI" doesn't say anything. Always when you change something that more than 10 people use at least one person will be unhappy with a change. What they hopefully do is check the metrics, e.g. of how many people switch to desktop mail clients and basic html view. And honestly the new UI doesn't disrupt my workflow that much. You can like or not like the roundedness o…

So the most elite software organization in the world could have made it even shittier, but they didn't.

They probably consulted the Abuser's Handbook to find that you have to boil the frog slowly.

Clearly they did check the metrics for users switching to the old gmail interface, because they removed the option to revert.

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

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Post by Nicksil »

system2 wrote: post #78
Nicksil wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I don't understand. We (at least the folks who are unhappy with this update) are the users of the application. The complaints pertain to issues which affect both "normies" and "us" alike. If I observe an unresponsive/lagging behavior, it isn't because I may be more technically inclined, but because my brain detected an unexpected delay between my input and the outcome.
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