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Why does anyone care? Are you using a browser from 1999? I don’t get it.

• ghusbands 3y ago
  It's far more accessible for screen readers than the standard HTML view. It's also more responsive, a lot of the time.
  • ionwake 3y ago
    I can’t fathom a person on hackernews confused about why people would like low bandwidth efficiency
• crabbone 3y ago
  I wouldn't care if I could use GMail from Emacs, but Google makes it increasingly more difficult to do that (and for some -- impossible) because they want their users to use the Web version over which they have more control. The new version of GMail has a lot of anti-features, s.a. bad text editor, uses too much screen for things I don't care about, it interacts very poorly with screen readers and any kind of automation / plugins that imitate user input (eg. I use Surfingkeys and simply selecting an email, as in "clicking" the checkbox is a game of whack-a-mole). I mean, it's just all around worse from functionality perspective. Why would I want that?
• jowea 3y ago
  Much lighter and more responsive and uses a lot less RAM. I can't reasonably keep the normal viewer open in an 4GB RAM computer together with other tabs and programs. And I suspect a 2GB computer would just explode on the normal viewer even if that was the only tab open.
• nunez 3y ago
  It matters when you're on a super slow connection and _need_ access to email
• JamesLeonis 3y ago
  > Why does anyone care? ... I don't get it. Because I'm tired of watching infrastructure I've relied on for a decade+ go up in flames. I'm tired of constantly migrating services because investors need their 25 basis points. Between the Google Workspaces debacle and the recent selling off of their domain registrar, it makes me wonder how much longer any Google service will exist. I'm tired of Enshittification.