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Its obviously not a 'nightmare' in that people will still use it gladly but its not great and has been getting worse for some time. Big problems it suffers from
by twelvechairs 13y ago
Its obviously not a 'nightmare' in that people will still use it gladly but its not great and has been getting worse for some time. Big problems it suffers from include:
* filling your screen by default with a plethora of things that an average user won't use and is vaguely terrified to touch because they aren't sure what they will do.
* lack of logical ordering of things. the structure behind screen real estate areas is poor.
a good case is the drop down below the Google logo to top left that says 'gmail' - does anyone use this? maybe a tiny percentage. would you even know what menu options might be hiding underneath a drop down that says 'gmail'? didn't think so.
- moron4hire 13y agoI guess you are right. No, I don't literally wake up at night, sweat pouring down my face, screaming in terror over visions of Gmail. It's called hyperbole.
- twelvechairs 13y agoI didn't say it was being used literally, just giving some meaningful bounds to move from the hyperbole to a more detailed understanding of the point.
- gdulli 13y agoIf people weren't locked in by the pain of having to give out new contact info and the inability to migrate years of email and attachment history to another service, I can't imagine that gmail wouldn't have been disrupted by now. We were bribed with "free" disk space and now we're paying the price for it. (If I'm wrong about being unable to migrate the data, please let me know.)
- wonderzombie 13y ago> (If I'm wrong about being unable to migrate the data, please let me know.) IMAP has been supported since '07. Takeout support was added last December. Exporting contacts to CSV has been supported for as long as I can remember, though I cannot find a citation.