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> Gmail was a galactic leap forward in terms of mail clients Only in terms of storage and 'hive mind' spam detection. The UI was pretty shitty, and not much b
by DrBazza 5y ago
> Gmail was a galactic leap forward in terms of mail clients
Only in terms of storage and 'hive mind' spam detection. The UI was pretty shitty, and not much better than Hotmail.
- skhr0680 5y agoThat’s like saying the automobile was only ahead in terms of propulsion, the UI was pretty shitty and not much better than a horse.
- KptMarchewa 5y ago>The UI was pretty shitty, and not much better than Hotmail. UI performance was great due to early use of ajax. If you had bad connection, which was extremely common in 2000's, then it worked way better than any alternative. Of course, now it's the other way around, static websites are fast and SPAs can be dogshit slow.
- nr2x 5y agoDid you use hotmail? It was absolutely awful.
- znpy 5y agoUh, I still use the no-javascript interface in my personal gmail. it's immensely fast when compared to modern crapware-gmail. and btw I remember hotmail too... the nicest thing was that you didn't have to refresh the whole page, e-mails just appeared (ajax probably). and the conversation view, that was really innovative. i mean, mail clients had been doing threading for like forever, but wemail mostly didn't.
- mvanbaak 5y agoWebmail still doesn't. It does 'grouping' at maximum. Try reading a mailinglist in the gmail webinterface. A reply on a reply should be indented one level, not being shown at the same level as the mail it replies to.