> Google really did a great job with the gmail UI. Truly it's awesome. It was great in the beginning indeed, but recent changes are also very disappointing. We

> Google really did a great job with the gmail UI. Truly it's awesome. It was great in the beginning indeed, but recent changes are also very disappointing. Well, they didn't touch the mail much yet, but the changes to built-in Google Chat were just bad. I have got several thousand chat threads over the last six years, with many threads in excess of a thousand lines long - so I've used it quite a lot. I really didn't like the changes they made as they went from the old GChat to Hangouts: - probably the worst is that they stopped breaking down the conversation in separate chat sessions: now you get a neverending scroll, so there's no easy way to tell when the yesterday's discussion ends and today's begins; - what's even worse, this scroll loads in small pieces. Before I could open a 800-lines long conversation and Ctrl+F the words I needed - not anymore, now I'd have to scroll through it all; - the conversations are still separate in the history, but if I click on one, I get to its end, and actually look at the beginning of the next one. If I want to re-read the conversation from the very beginning, I have to either scroll up or actually select previous conversation. No biggie, but still annoying; - less text fits in the new chat window; - there's no timestamp by default now (they only show up on mouseover only). Okay, now, what DID they add? Hundreds of cartoonish emoticons and user avatars instead of names. Guys, I'm not a 7-year old, could you please take away that bright plastic rocking horse and give me back the tool that wasn't so shiny, but worked really well? I'm sure there are better chat clients; but what was really awesome is that GChats were integrated with GMail, so I could search them both at once. That's a great help if you hold half the conversations in emails and another half in a chat - I won't have that with a separate chat client. But enough ranting. Any pointers for a website/app/service that'd handle chats and email at once, like GMail used to? Preferably online or with a sync option, because having access to your whole history from anywhere is really great.