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I had never used Gmail until a few month ago when I switched jobs and my current company uses GSuites. The Gmail UI is horrible, the amount of confusion it cre

by kerng 8y ago

I had never used Gmail until a few month ago when I switched jobs and my current company uses GSuites. The Gmail UI is horrible, the amount of confusion it creates and how illogical it does collapse and order things amazes me. Why not just show me the content as it is and let me figure out how to handle it?

megous 8y ago
You can disable conversations and view all individual messages in the chronological order without any grouping. But it will not solve other UX issues, like the fact that gmail UI encourages top-posting, even if the sender replied inside the body of the original e-mail. (it skillfully hides the option to reply inline inside the quoted body, even in this case) It also makes a complete mess when you write responses inside the quoted text, if you're not extremely careful and aware of this fact. For example these are identical messages: As gmail user sent it: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage2.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage2.png As I received it (text e-mail message gmail actually generated): https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage4.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/gmail-garbage4.png Now someone tell me this is not a complete garbage! Honestly, conversing with gmail users is my least favorite thing, as long as they use the web client. Gmail webmail is not a serious e-mail client. It does not even implement threading.
- haroldp 8y ago
  Not OP, agree that the UI is still horrible in many ways, but still thank you!
- kerng 8y ago
  Thanks for the pointer, will check changing the conversation view setting out. Yeah, I have noticed the issues with quotations too - it's really messy and hard to parse.