What happened, Gmail?
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What happened, Gmail?
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Re: What happened, Gmail?
#2It flickers. It animates. It's annoying. Thank goodness they did not break keyboard shortcuts.
It's more intrusive as a gui than the old one.
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#3Among "needed innovations", the post lists: "A good method for telling users what’s important to read and what can wait for later."
To me, it's downright scary that someone would want Google telling them what is important in their own mailbox. Personal responsibility bad, Hand-holding good, apparently.
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#4It flickers. It animates. It's annoying. Thank goodness they did not break keyboard shortcuts. It's more intrusive as a gui than the old one.
As long as google keeps the imap and pop3 gateways alive, we have a choice.
Use them, utilize other webmails, even run it localhost, like rainloop; desktop clients, like geary, evolution, claws, thunderbird; command line, like mutt.
Don't let the gmail interface drive the way you want to deal with email.
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#5Among "needed innovations", the post lists: "A good method for telling users what’s important to read and what can wait for later." To me, it's downright scary that someone would want Google telling them what is important in their own mailbox. Personal responsibility bad, Hand-holding good, apparently.
Just as scary as having Google filter out mail that is totally not important, i.e. spam?
In Gmail you can (un)label email as being important, which will then train an algorithm just like a spam filter. Besides that, it will learn to recognise email you reply to often as being important.
I very much like this feature; I set up the Gmail app on iOS to only send me push notifications for important mail. For me that strikes a good balance between no distractions and not missing out on important email.
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#6Those that don’t use inbox, why? I’m sure there are features of gmail that are missing from inbox but what are they? Why do Google keep these two “forks” of the same product?
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#7Material Design is one of the worst things that ever happened to the design of websites, not only Google's but everyone's, since now so many are trying to copy it. I have no idea why anyone would want to see it anywhere.
Re: What happened, Gmail?
#8Among "needed innovations", the post lists: "A good method for telling users what’s important to read and what can wait for later." To me, it's downright scary that someone would want Google telling them what is important in their own mailbox. Personal responsibility bad, Hand-holding good, apparently.
Back in the days (probably 2014), Gmail had a method to show Important emails which kinda worked. But I think my intention in this recommendation was about reducing the notifications people get for every email and helping you understand what urgent (since the AI reads your emails anyway). But I understand it could escalate wrongly very quickly
Re: What happened, Gmail?
#9Among "needed innovations", the post lists: "A good method for telling users what’s important to read and what can wait for later." To me, it's downright scary that someone would want Google telling them what is important in their own mailbox. Personal responsibility bad, Hand-holding good, apparently.
An important feature of Gmail from the get go was how well it separated Spam from relevant email. I don't think you'll find too many users who prefer to do that manually.
It's a matter of degree of course, but scary seems too strong a word.
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#10Among "needed innovations", the post lists: "A good method for telling users what’s important to read and what can wait for later." To me, it's downright scary that someone would want Google telling them what is important in their own mailbox. Personal responsibility bad, Hand-holding good, apparently.
Just as scary as having Google filter out mail that is totally not important, i.e. spam? In Gmail you can (un)label email as being important, which will then train an algorithm just like a spam filter. Besides that, it will learn to recognise email you reply to often as being important. I very much like this feature; I set up the Gmail app on iOS to only send me push notifications for important mail. For me that stri…
Spam can be removed by objective filters, that simply classify the email against known patterns/rules. Who you are or what you like is irrelevant to them.
This is not that: it's you, giving a giant personal information sponge, a bigger tap.