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I can't see the "Try the new Gmail" setting. Is there a geographic/locale restriction? (I tried switching my account to English without luck)

agildehaus 8y ago
Blog post came before they hit the big ol' deploy button.
- oblio 8y ago
  Yeah, they went: ./publish-blog-post.sh ./deploy-gmail.sh instead of the other way around :p
gempir 8y ago
Experiencing the same here. I'm from Germany.
epaga 8y ago
Same here, in Germany. Maybe someone could post the link that is behind "Try the new Gmail" - I assume it's just some URL parameter you need to add?
zapt02 8y ago
Same, Sweden.
- deleted 8y ago
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puzzle 8y ago
The feature flag probably hasn't been flipped through all the Gmail clusters yet, but probably will be soon. EDIT, for more clarity: Gmail spans lots of clusters ("Gmail's web interface runs in many locations”, https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-is...) and Google is an US-centric ("5%") company, so it's likely that the rollout has been timed to be complete or mostly complete during the day... US daytime, that is. It's barely 5AM on the East Coast.
thirdsun 8y ago
Same here. Also no mention of the Early Adopter Program on our G Suite account. I can't enroll with any of my personal or work accounts.
exikyut 8y ago
Same, with two accounts. Australia here, if that makes any difference. Clearly it's a staggered rollout thing that hasn't fully taken effect. (Which is stupid, when you do this kind of thing at scale you pick an exact time to go "live", add some code that enables the flag at some point after that exact moment in time, then do a rollout early enough that all the machines in the cluster are updated with that code by the time rolls around. And then everything "just updates all at once." Why do I suspect that Google from 2006-2009 would have made the effort to do that for this update, but that nowadays it would have been deemed as too difficult or whatever...) I wonder what happened. Maybe enabling this _now_ was a last-minute decision? Weird.
- adambyrtek 8y ago
  This is definitely deliberate, upgrading everybody (almost) at once could work, but would have been a huge risk at their scale. You want to roll out big features like that incrementally so that you can monitor the load, catch any issues early, and give yourself a chance to revert if things go wrong without pissing off the whole world.
  - exikyut 8y ago
    Fair point. I should have been more clear, woops. I was referring to the "Try the beta" feature showing up in the gear/cog menu.
karakanb 8y ago
Same, Turkey.
cdancette 8y ago
same in france
KayL 8y ago
Same in HK, Asian.
draxofavalon 8y ago
Same in Argentina
superchink 8y ago
I had the same experience, until I disabled uBlock Origin. Setting showed up instantly, and I turned it right back on.

agildehaus 8y ago

Blog post came before they hit the big ol' deploy button.

oblio 8y ago
Yeah, they went: ./publish-blog-post.sh ./deploy-gmail.sh instead of the other way around :p

gempir 8y ago

Experiencing the same here. I'm from Germany.

epaga 8y ago

Same here, in Germany. Maybe someone could post the link that is behind "Try the new Gmail" - I assume it's just some URL parameter you need to add?

zapt02 8y ago

Same, Sweden.

deleted 8y ago
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puzzle 8y ago

The feature flag probably hasn't been flipped through all the Gmail clusters yet, but probably will be soon. EDIT, for more clarity: Gmail spans lots of clusters ("Gmail's web interface runs in many locations”, https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-issue.html https://gmail.googleblog.com/2009/09/more-on-todays-gmail-is...) and Google is an US-centric ("5%") company, so it's likely that the rollout has been timed to be complete or mostly complete during the day... US daytime, that is. It's barely 5AM on the East Coast.

thirdsun 8y ago

Same here. Also no mention of the Early Adopter Program on our G Suite account. I can't enroll with any of my personal or work accounts.

exikyut 8y ago

Same, with two accounts. Australia here, if that makes any difference. Clearly it's a staggered rollout thing that hasn't fully taken effect. (Which is stupid, when you do this kind of thing at scale you pick an exact time to go "live", add some code that enables the flag at some point after that exact moment in time, then do a rollout early enough that all the machines in the cluster are updated with that code by the time rolls around. And then everything "just updates all at once." Why do I suspect that Google from 2006-2009 would have made the effort to do that for this update, but that nowadays it would have been deemed as too difficult or whatever...) I wonder what happened. Maybe enabling this _now_ was a last-minute decision? Weird.

adambyrtek 8y ago
This is definitely deliberate, upgrading everybody (almost) at once could work, but would have been a huge risk at their scale. You want to roll out big features like that incrementally so that you can monitor the load, catch any issues early, and give yourself a chance to revert if things go wrong without pissing off the whole world.
- exikyut 8y ago
  Fair point. I should have been more clear, woops. I was referring to the "Try the beta" feature showing up in the gear/cog menu.

karakanb 8y ago

Same, Turkey.

cdancette 8y ago

same in france

KayL 8y ago

Same in HK, Asian.

draxofavalon 8y ago

Same in Argentina

superchink 8y ago

I had the same experience, until I disabled uBlock Origin. Setting showed up instantly, and I turned it right back on.