4 ms·
While not a game changing feature for most people here (since most people have their own filters that do this), it's a great feature for the non-techies using G
by gkoberger 16y ago
While not a game changing feature for most people here (since most people have their own filters that do this), it's a great feature for the non-techies using GMail.
GMail does a great job of keeping everyone happy. An example is how they added "Folders" (edit: it's called 'move to', but it's basically folders) for people who didn't understand labels, without ruining labels.
- twodayslate 16y agoI didn't even notice they added "folders". But yeah... not going to use this.
- stanleydrew 16y agoSorry to call you out, but what is the point of this comment?
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- metageek 16y agoIt seems to be a common opinion on Hacker News that you shouldn't write a comment just saying "I agree"; that's what the upvote arrow is for.
- chris_j 16y agoIf that's what the upvote arrow is for then I may have been using it wrongly; I often upvote comments that I disagree with, if they add something to the discussion. (I'm with you on not simply commenting "I agree", which is what I assume the gpp said. It would be good to add something to the discussion as well)
- twymer 16y agoNo I believe you're right on this (though I'm not a particularly heavy HN user). Upvoting things you agree with implies that you should downvote things you don't agree with and that really isn't appropriate.
- YuriNiyazov 16y agoThe upvote has two uses: 1) interesting comment that contributes to discussion with which I may or may not agree with. 2) I agree. The first use case is preferable to the second one. If you happen to agree with a comment that isn't interesting nor contributes anything to the discussion, then maybe your agreement with it is irrelevant as well.
- deleted 16y ago[deleted]
- furyg3 16y agoI have my own filters/rules which do this ("social" for FB/LinkedIn/Twitter and "not-people"), but this google labs feature does a better job at catching these types of notifications than my rules did. I add one or two "not-people" rules a week, also, which is getting silly. Good job, GMail team!
- billmcneale 16y agoFYI it's "Gmail" (lowercase m).
- mbrubeck 16y agoAs long as they use an uppercase M glyph in their logo, I will capitalize it however I like. :)
- billmcneale 16y agoYeah, that's a funny contradiction, but trust me, I work on the Gmail team. Check out the spelling in the blog posts on Google's own blog: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
- yannickmahe 16y agoSeems to me the non-techie doesn't even know about the labs features. Techies might use it though, if only to see how it works.
- nakkiel 16y agoKeeping everyone happy? I'm still looking for a way to properly handle Launchpad bug reports.