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Gmail Ending? Google Starts Migrating Users

8 points by smaili 11y ago

pferde 11y ago
Sorry, I get redirected to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ every time. I guess I'll wait until some news regurgitator publishes a piece about the topic.
- mgr86 11y ago
  As do I, but it is an ad that you get anytime you vist forbes. In the top it says continue with a timer. It will take you to http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-ending-gmail/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-en...
  - pferde 11y ago
    Alas, it doesn't with javascript disabled. And I am not going to enable javascript for a webpage that is meant to serve few paragraphs of text.
  - teaneedz 11y ago
    HN visitors should boycott links from Forbes rather than encourage their idiotic interstitial ads.
- shepardrtc 11y ago
  So you're interested in what they have to say, but you can't spend 5 seconds to compensate them for their time invested in publishing the article?
  - pferde 11y ago
    I'm not _that_ interested.
bubalus 11y ago
I tried Inbox for about month, but I ended up turning it off. It was slower than the standard gmail interface, both on my computer and my phone. There was a noticeable lag when trying to open each email. Additionally, on the Android app, they inexplicably removed the ability to swipe left/right in order to move from one email thread to the next. Instead, they implemented a vertical swipe which returns the user to the inbox. So the pattern for reading a series of emails is swipe-tap-swipe-tap-swipe-tap instead of a series of swipes. Additionally the swipe only triggers if I drag my thumb vertically over about 90% of my phone screen, which is very uncomfortable. Why mess with what works?
robertop 11y ago
The article makes a very good point about the potential impacts of Google migrating users to inbox. I myself tried Inbox and didn't see the benefits. Will users get upset when their email client looks completely different? Will they actually stop using gmail? I predict google will get gun-shy and eventually abandon it.

8 points by smaili 11y ago

Sorry, I get redirected to http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/ every time. I guess I'll wait until some news regurgitator publishes a piece about the topic.

mgr86 11y ago
As do I, but it is an ad that you get anytime you vist forbes. In the top it says continue with a timer. It will take you to http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-ending-gmail/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/12/05/google-en...
- pferde 11y ago
  Alas, it doesn't with javascript disabled. And I am not going to enable javascript for a webpage that is meant to serve few paragraphs of text.
- teaneedz 11y ago
  HN visitors should boycott links from Forbes rather than encourage their idiotic interstitial ads.
shepardrtc 11y ago
So you're interested in what they have to say, but you can't spend 5 seconds to compensate them for their time invested in publishing the article?
- pferde 11y ago
  I'm not _that_ interested.

bubalus 11y ago

I tried Inbox for about month, but I ended up turning it off. It was slower than the standard gmail interface, both on my computer and my phone. There was a noticeable lag when trying to open each email. Additionally, on the Android app, they inexplicably removed the ability to swipe left/right in order to move from one email thread to the next. Instead, they implemented a vertical swipe which returns the user to the inbox. So the pattern for reading a series of emails is swipe-tap-swipe-tap-swipe-tap instead of a series of swipes. Additionally the swipe only triggers if I drag my thumb vertically over about 90% of my phone screen, which is very uncomfortable. Why mess with what works?

robertop 11y ago

The article makes a very good point about the potential impacts of Google migrating users to inbox. I myself tried Inbox and didn't see the benefits. Will users get upset when their email client looks completely different? Will they actually stop using gmail? I predict google will get gun-shy and eventually abandon it.