Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

It's funny, I absolutely love Inbox, but that's going away in favor of the "improved" Gmail which supposedly incorporated many things from Inbox - but I can't stand the new Gmail either.

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

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Post by dpcan » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:41 AM UTC

Interesting. I switched to the new Gmail, and I actually can't remember what the old one looked like already. I'm sure Google will do just fine ignoring all these requests and their billion+ users will adapt.

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Post by annadane » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:42 AM UTC

Seen this type of comment thread before countless times on the Google support forum. They'll placate the complainers by saying they're listening to feedback and then only pay heed to the positive comments and not change a thing. De rigeur for businesses. The general type of dishonesty is quite amazing. Yes, people are maybe excessively resistant to change, but when everyone is telling you something sucks, your customers, who do you listen to, them or your marketing department, oh wait, don't answer that.

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Post by Nicksil » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:44 AM UTC

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 less unhappy ever since.

Now I just need to quit talking about it and finally finish my move out of Google's house. Everything else is out except for the email. The damn email.

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Post by nemothekid » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:51 AM UTC

My biggest problem with the new UI is the font. Roboto, or whatever font they are using, is terrible to read a lot of small text. I wish the font could be set to Helvetica or disable web fonts for Gmail.

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Post by zeusk » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

I just switched to Outlook.com and basic HTML mode for when I HAVE to use my old email.

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Post by badminton1 » Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 5:52 AM UTC

Gmail's user base = billions of people.

A few hundred upset users can be misleading.