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Gmail's user base = billions of people. A few hundred upset users can be misleading.

• felixgallo 8y ago
  Or, representative.
  • partycoder 8y ago
    This only means many users are upset. But even if they were 100,000, that would be a small fraction of the user base and you could still say the user base is either indifferent or satisfied with the change.
    • Nicksil 8y ago
      >But even if they were 100,000 That would still be representative. A sample. I don't understand your argument.
      • _ttg 8y ago
        A sample but a self-selected, louder sample. I would bet the overwhelming majority of users are indifferent to the change.
      • system2 8y ago
        Simply put, normies count. Not us. Even if 1% (few million users?) are upset now, this wouldn't make google change their mind serving 99% unaware users.
        • Nicksil 8y ago
          I don't understand. We (at least the folks who are unhappy with this update) are the users of the application. The complaints pertain to issues which affect both "normies" and "us" alike. If I observe an unresponsive/lagging behavior, it isn't because I may be more technically inclined, but because my brain detected an unexpected delay between my input and the outcome.
        • matthewmacleod 8y ago
          This is how we get crap everywhere. “It’s fine, only people who know what they’re talking about eilll realise how slow it is” is a terrible view to have when developing a piece of software!
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