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Hopefully someone else will make a replacement for basic HTML mode.

niutech 3y ago
There are many webmail clients which you can host yourself and connect to GMail by IMAP/POP3: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-web-based-email-clients/ https://itsfoss.com/open-source-web-based-email-clients/
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paxys 3y ago
There are a million email clients out there. There is zero reason for people to use Gmail (the app) at all if they want this kind of functionality.
- dheera 3y ago
  I often use basic HTML because it loads 5X faster and there's no stupid progress bar or spinning icon. I want to see e-mail, not a progress bar or splash screen. Splash screens were things of the 90s. Computers should be 100X faster now, and apps and websites should load imperceptibly fast. Basic HTML delivers on that. I use Gmail because it intergrates with Google Calendar.
  - palata 3y ago
    > Computers should be 100X faster now, and apps and websites should load imperceptibly fast. That's unfortunately not how it works. Computers being 100X faster just allows apps to be 100X slower. Which in turns enables companies to add crap to be more profitable (like tracking, ads) or to make their devs more productive (by using frameworks that make them quicker at developing slower apps). > I use Gmail because it intergrates with Google Calendar. And by doing that, you support the model above. If you want a fast and minimal email service, you should use one. Not wish that GMail becomes one. On that note, I use CalDAV to synchronize my Google Calendar, and it works quite well.
    - dheera 3y ago
      > Computers being 100X faster just allows apps to be 100X slower. Or you can just use basic HTML with a custom stylesheet that makes it look more 21st century and you have a lightning-fast, sleek experience.
      - palata 3y ago
        I'm with you there: I wish the software industry wrote good, fast software. I am just observing that it is not how it works. Make faster hardware, and companies will build slower software. The goal of companies is just to produce as much software as possible, it doesn't have to be good (software is mostly pretty bad nowadays). And that's good for hardware companies, because it forces users to buy newer hardware. It is some kind of systemic programmed obsolescence. It's just bad for the consumers, because they haven't gained much in 20 years, other than an obligation to buy new hardware regularly if they want their experience to stay bearable.
- trustingtrust 3y ago
  Out of those million email clients, probably less than 50 are regularly maintained with good support. And I am probably exaggerating the number 50. Could be single digits.
  - paxys 3y ago
    You don't need 50 you need just one. Thunderbird itself checks all the boxes.

There are many webmail clients which you can host yourself and connect to GMail by IMAP/POP3: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-web-based-email-clients/ https://itsfoss.com/open-source-web-based-email-clients/

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paxys 3y ago

There are a million email clients out there. There is zero reason for people to use Gmail (the app) at all if they want this kind of functionality.

dheera 3y ago
I often use basic HTML because it loads 5X faster and there's no stupid progress bar or spinning icon. I want to see e-mail, not a progress bar or splash screen. Splash screens were things of the 90s. Computers should be 100X faster now, and apps and websites should load imperceptibly fast. Basic HTML delivers on that. I use Gmail because it intergrates with Google Calendar.
- palata 3y ago
  > Computers should be 100X faster now, and apps and websites should load imperceptibly fast. That's unfortunately not how it works. Computers being 100X faster just allows apps to be 100X slower. Which in turns enables companies to add crap to be more profitable (like tracking, ads) or to make their devs more productive (by using frameworks that make them quicker at developing slower apps). > I use Gmail because it intergrates with Google Calendar. And by doing that, you support the model above. If you want a fast and minimal email service, you should use one. Not wish that GMail becomes one. On that note, I use CalDAV to synchronize my Google Calendar, and it works quite well.
  - dheera 3y ago
    > Computers being 100X faster just allows apps to be 100X slower. Or you can just use basic HTML with a custom stylesheet that makes it look more 21st century and you have a lightning-fast, sleek experience.
    - palata 3y ago
      I'm with you there: I wish the software industry wrote good, fast software. I am just observing that it is not how it works. Make faster hardware, and companies will build slower software. The goal of companies is just to produce as much software as possible, it doesn't have to be good (software is mostly pretty bad nowadays). And that's good for hardware companies, because it forces users to buy newer hardware. It is some kind of systemic programmed obsolescence. It's just bad for the consumers, because they haven't gained much in 20 years, other than an obligation to buy new hardware regularly if they want their experience to stay bearable.
trustingtrust 3y ago
Out of those million email clients, probably less than 50 are regularly maintained with good support. And I am probably exaggerating the number 50. Could be single digits.
- paxys 3y ago
  You don't need 50 you need just one. Thunderbird itself checks all the boxes.