Gmail’s next big redesign starts rolling out next week

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/gmails-next-big-redesign-starts-rolling-out-next-week/

by dgudkov • 4 years ago

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winternett• 4 years ago

Well folks... It was good while it lasted. As the email functionality gets hobbled more and more, and as they introduce quotas on google drive attachments, it's becoming clear that it was all a plan to convert me into a paid subscrber. The fees will only go up as each new feature is introduced to reduce screen space on my vital emails... I've had enough.

tata712• 4 years ago

The larger the VC inputs, the longer the con can be.

If we're just starting to figure it out and become frustrated, how many decades until genpop does?

rurp• 4 years ago

Is there even a point to this? The article notes:

We covered something like 20 different products in our "History of Google Messaging services" article

I can't imagine there are many people excited to adopt a new voice or chat app from Google. Maybe the third dozenth try is the charm!

The last redesign was such a disaster and given the extra apps they're trying to pile in I expect the performance to get even worse, if such a thing is possible. Who knows, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. I guess the silver lining of another gmail regression is that it will finally bump getting a new email service to the top of my todo list.

ciprian_craciun• 4 years ago

GMail is the single (and last) Google product I personally use, and every time they've changed the interface, I had to manually disable all chat/meet integrations, hide all the useless sidebars and stuff, etc., just to be able to focus on my email...

Now that seems impossible... They force-feed me integrations I don't need or use...

Well, good thing I've started migrating to Thunderbird some time ago... I still need to use the GMail interface for mailing lists -- for some reason Thunderbird in 2022 still doesn't properly understand the concept of emails with multiple labels and threads across labels...

Hopefully, at least GMail has solved their editor in this new version? Because even if I use plain-text in GMail, copy-paste never seems to work right, and just editing text seems to make the cursor jump randomly within the textbox... (I've already started editing the email body in a plain-text editor, and then just copy-paste it at the end in GMail...)

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BTW, yes, I am a paying customer, so I have the right to complain, but unfortunately there isn't an official "complaints box". Even if I weren't a paying customer, I would still have the right to complain, because they get their share by harvesting my emails...

tata712• 4 years ago

Did they ever close that bug where you can just suddenly and irreparably lose all of your shit?

Gmail’s next big redesign starts rolling out next week

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