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I think it is in poor taste for Google to publish https://web.dev/ https://web.dev/ during the new desktop Gmail. >Google's web platform team has spent over a

I think it is in poor taste for Google to publish https://web.dev/ https://web.dev/ during the new desktop Gmail. >Google's web platform team has spent over a decade learning about user needs. Now we want to make it as easy as possible for you to master the defining standards of web development today. >Fast load times >Guarantee your site loads quickly to avoid user drop off. "Loading Gmail" >Network resilience >See consistent, reliable performance regardless of network quality. "Loading..." (in yellow at the top, after clicking a search result. Indefinitely.) (some other non-quoted parts are OK) >Accessible to all >[Build] a site that works for all of your users.

gowld 8y ago
A Gmail account has has 10+GB of data. Users for the most part don't want 10GB in browser local storage. Gmail's speed problems are in the backend, not the web UI.
- joshfraser 8y ago
  That's not true. Pop open your console and watch the network tab for yourself. Slow websites are almost always due to frontend issues. Besides, Google has the ability to index the entire internet and return results in milliseconds. I'm guessing it's not my 10GB of email that's tripping them up.
- logicallee 8y ago
  what you've written is totally false. It worked fine on the old UI, and also still works fine in simple HTML mode. You can see this yourself here: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ (direct link to html view. you have to already be signed in for this link to work.) Side note: I'm sure you would have mentioned it, but you don't happen to work at Google on the new Gmail front-end, do you? (Since I could see someone who is, trying to deflect blame for their current bugs by "blaming the back-end".) Just want to make sure...
davidjnelson 8y ago
> “Loading..." (in yellow at the top, after clicking a search result. Indefinitely.) I dig google and its products but oh wow is this bug frustrating. Hope it’s fixed soon.

gowld 8y ago

A Gmail account has has 10+GB of data. Users for the most part don't want 10GB in browser local storage. Gmail's speed problems are in the backend, not the web UI.

joshfraser 8y ago
That's not true. Pop open your console and watch the network tab for yourself. Slow websites are almost always due to frontend issues. Besides, Google has the ability to index the entire internet and return results in milliseconds. I'm guessing it's not my 10GB of email that's tripping them up.
logicallee 8y ago
what you've written is totally false. It worked fine on the old UI, and also still works fine in simple HTML mode. You can see this yourself here: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ (direct link to html view. you have to already be signed in for this link to work.) Side note: I'm sure you would have mentioned it, but you don't happen to work at Google on the new Gmail front-end, do you? (Since I could see someone who is, trying to deflect blame for their current bugs by "blaming the back-end".) Just want to make sure...

davidjnelson 8y ago

> “Loading..." (in yellow at the top, after clicking a search result. Indefinitely.) I dig google and its products but oh wow is this bug frustrating. Hope it’s fixed soon.