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google, for all its money, makes shitty shitty UI, and not only is it shitty, it feels like its made specifically to make your life worse. lemme explain: 1. Gma

google, for all its money, makes shitty shitty UI, and not only is it shitty, it feels like its made specifically to make your life worse. lemme explain: 1. Gmail on phones -not only are there tons of minor design inconsistencies, oversight like what this article shows, theres also no effective way to organise your messages. there's an option to open calendar on the bottom of the hamburger menu (also inconsistent, this menu got removed from some other Google apps) it only works with Google calendar.

shreyshnaccount 4y ago
(cont'd, pressed send by mistake) ang i couldn't find the option to make or remove new labels in the app. alternative is TwoBird, much easier to use imo 2. phone - while this app is majorly okay, I am super annoyed by the giant list of ways to contact a person that hangs just under a contact.. (things like message with whatsapp, call with whatsapp, video call etc with all the different apps. its clutter, rather just have an option to open in app) doesn't really need an alternative tbh it's good enough 3. calendar. i hate this app. from the bottom of my heart. its impossible to delete all the instances of a recurring event, doesn't have a decent monthly view. clicking on an event in the view doesn't open it (why?), changing the time never works on all the instances of a recurring task, some reminders just appear twice? it's unusable. alternative-install an open source calendar from fdroid. those are better. and you can export your data easily. 4. calculator. it seems to think in stupid. big bold buttons (okay, should be optional tho) taking up most of the screen, can't do anything remotely complex. no way to plot stuff, theres lag on the UI. its just freaking dumb and no one asked for it. 5. photos. welp, promised me free storage forever. used all my data to train some AI models. then took back the storage. this one's on me I guess. 6. drive. slow and filled with needless animations no one asked for. really basic things are missing or hand to find. can't open a terminal to edit files. alternative sync thing, a self hosted server.
shreyshnaccount 4y ago
oh yeah, and all the app icons look the same it's ridiculous and I don't want it. alternative- use a launcher, change your icons.

shreyshnaccount 4y ago

(cont'd, pressed send by mistake) ang i couldn't find the option to make or remove new labels in the app. alternative is TwoBird, much easier to use imo 2. phone - while this app is majorly okay, I am super annoyed by the giant list of ways to contact a person that hangs just under a contact.. (things like message with whatsapp, call with whatsapp, video call etc with all the different apps. its clutter, rather just have an option to open in app) doesn't really need an alternative tbh it's good enough 3. calendar. i hate this app. from the bottom of my heart. its impossible to delete all the instances of a recurring event, doesn't have a decent monthly view. clicking on an event in the view doesn't open it (why?), changing the time never works on all the instances of a recurring task, some reminders just appear twice? it's unusable. alternative-install an open source calendar from fdroid. those are better. and you can export your data easily. 4. calculator. it seems to think in stupid. big bold buttons (okay, should be optional tho) taking up most of the screen, can't do anything remotely complex. no way to plot stuff, theres lag on the UI. its just freaking dumb and no one asked for it. 5. photos. welp, promised me free storage forever. used all my data to train some AI models. then took back the storage. this one's on me I guess. 6. drive. slow and filled with needless animations no one asked for. really basic things are missing or hand to find. can't open a terminal to edit files. alternative sync thing, a self hosted server.

shreyshnaccount 4y ago

oh yeah, and all the app icons look the same it's ridiculous and I don't want it. alternative- use a launcher, change your icons.