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It's interesting that so many of his issues still apply. My personal beef: have you ever had a message mis-identified as part of a conversation? Or, ever had s
by logic 16y ago
It's interesting that so many of his issues still apply.
My personal beef: have you ever had a message mis-identified as part of a conversation? Or, ever had someone reply to a message with a slightly mangled subject line or other hint to GMail that it's a separate discussion?
I will declare my undying appreciation for anyone who tells my how to manually separate a message from (and alternatively, attach a message to) a conversation.
The inability to "bounce", ie. re-send, was also very jarring for my personal workflow. I understand why it's not there by default, both from a user understanding perspective and from a technical "don't break SPF/DKIM" one, but it's unbelievably annoying not being able to "bounce" a message from account to another (ie. from an apps account to a gmail.com account, for example).
I'm surprised to see so many people who are happy with Gmail's labeling; conceptually, tagging email is fantastic, but the UI experience in Gmail is awful. (Too much friction is involved. When I sit down to label something I don't want to select one or two from a drop-down, I want to just type a series of applicable tags in one shot, perhaps with a bit of ajax auto-fill-in. With so many other nods to keyboardists elsewhere, this still surprises me.)
Not that complaining about this stuff on HN will address any of it for me. ;)