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The past few months I've transitioned to using Gmail almost exclusively on my phone. Various aspects of the redesign utterly crippled its desktop usability. The
by Causality1 8y ago
The past few months I've transitioned to using Gmail almost exclusively on my phone. Various aspects of the redesign utterly crippled its desktop usability. The inbox now takes three to five times as long to load as it did before. All the functions are now tiny minimalistic icons and more often than not I have to use a tool tip just to figure out what a button does. It needlessly crunches the folders into a two inch column on the left side, forcing multiple mouse clicks just to expose the option to get to your spam folder despite the acres of whitespace directly below their tiny truncated list.
- climb_stealth 8y agoI have moved to Thunderbird on the desktop since the redesign. Nowadays I don't even miss the original gmail webinterface anymore.
- mxuribe 8y agoOh, the folder crunching is annoying! I even went so far as to reduce the numbers of folders that i had so that they all display without any crunching, AND without my needing to apply another click just to expand the view to see them...Then i asked myself WTF? I'm changing my way of working because of crappy UI decisions by gmail designers? But instead of re-building up more folders, just kept with the minimal amount of folders...and then i tried to use search...Meh. Now, I'm trying to get to inbox-near-zero (achieving true zero is silly and excessive i think). My becoming ruthless with incoming emails (again only to near-zero) has felt ok - not great, but ok. none of this is because of some great feature from gmail mind you. (Gosh, i really wish i could use native thunderbird on the desktop of my work's computer!)