GMail: The Backlash?

lonesome hobo, cast from computer to computer with no harbor but my browser login with which to complete the tasks assigned by my employer

same as j.
i don't use it that often, but every time i do it annoys me tbh

y'all are crazy, Gmail is the best

Yeah - work recently moved over from Lotus Notes and GMail is sooo good.

Though people are looking to turn off conversations because there is literally no learning some people.

hate the new gmail look, especially since i never use hangouts and so have the right hand side of the screen filled by something useless. anyone know if there's a way to remove it?

I don't have anything on the right of my screen except a tiny column with some buttons - calendar, keep, and tasks.

and even that has a button at the bottom to collapse it.

yeah i have that panel too. i also realised i'm an idiot and i just needed to deactivate the chat in my settings

I have to click on everything twice and it's slower.

And seeing that Gmail envelope animation every 35 seconds like it's the Batman logo doesn't help.

same

Remember dial up

∞ you've been particularly helpful lately

thank's

U put out luv to the world and u get it back is how i c it

mooks <3

the idea that people would use browser email is totally bizarre to me. why??

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Always flummoxed by this. I feel I should be using something better than Apple mail; what’s good?

eudora

compuserve

Apple Mail is pretty decent tbh

Mutt if you’re nasty

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airmail's ok. that's what i use, along with spamsieve.

i'd probably use Apple Mail except there's a bug that renders all my IMAP email in black text with a black background. i even got a new hard drive, fresh install of high Sierra, did NOT restore any data, put all my info in from scratch and the bug was still there. only thing I've found online about it is something similar from like 2014 if you were running a beta or something..

bloatmail

https://medium.com/@boriscoder/peeking-under-the-hood-of-redesigned-gmail-dd84b532e0f5

i used to run a decade-out-of-date machine that was pretty taxed by browser usage, merely even loading the hangouts widget was an obvious bottleneck

but now on my fast new computer it still sometimes shows the 'something's wrong' error in that widget's frame intermittently

yup, it's considerably slower and glitchier since the update on 2 of my older pc's.

The way the official, promoted ads in my 'Promotions' tabs jump around about 2-5 seconds after I open the tab, ensuring I click on an ad instead of the actual email I want to open, is driving me bonkers. Even knowing it's coming and waiting a few extra seconds only works about half the time, they seem to have learned just how to time them.

Extra annoying that these two promoted ads are no longer consistently at the top of the page, easy to ignore.

gmail is trash

I used to like it. As I complained in another thread the search function is terrible, and Google’s core business is a search engine!

Use Fastmail (affiliate link) (https://fastmail.com <- not an affiliate link)

fastmail security supposed to be a bit shit? (full disclosure: i use fastmail for personal non spam email because i like it and don’t care)

have never heard that nor do I know what you might be referring to

have had no issues re gmail or search.
in fact, i have no 'promotions' tab !?

have never heard that nor do I know what you might be referring to

have had no issues re gmail or search.
in fact, i have no 'promotions' tab !?

Oh I mean in practice most email you send will be TLS encrypted between servers and if you use any email provider you’re kind of trusting your provider to not read your email no matter what, nothing special about Fastmail there. Also I’m sure their infra is deployed worldwide now the internet isn’t good enough in Australia to run a service from there I’m pretty sure

My impression of Australia is the whole country is sharing one asymmetric DSL connection that goes to Singapore and they each pay $89 a month for it

xxpost - I don't know if it was something with my settings, but several years ago my Gmail started appearing pre-screened into three tabs at the top - Primary, Promotions and Social. For the most part it does a pretty good job of sorting my incoming mail into the appropriate tabs, although I have had to do a little "training" for newsletters and such. I'm sure there's some setting for this, but I'm actually okay with it and I didn't do anything intentional to set up these tabs, they just showed up. The Promotions tab is the only one that had the embedded ads.

that sounds like a nightmare to me. if gmail had any advertising at all i would be gone immediately.

Yeah I've had the tab setup on the browser gmail for a few years, it happened automatically. Yes it has embedded ads but it also segregates useless promotional emails with a pretty high degree of accuracy (I also train it sometimes). Makes gmail an better experience overall, most days I don't even open the Promotions tab. In the app version, I use the Primary view, where Promotions is not a tab but they show up grouped together at the top of my email, which is slightly more annoying than the browser version

I have several Gmail accounts and only one of them has that "promotions" tab and only one or two emails ever get sent there. Usually they're notifications from Zoom or something stupid like that.

I think they offered me the promotions 'upgrade' a couple of years ago, I declined and they haven't asked me since.

The Promotions tab is great. Filters out all the offer emails from companies you've purchased from in the past etc

Very easy to quickly scan through the list to see if there's anything of interest and then bulk delete them.

It's fine, I'm sure it could be better but it's just frickin email and I don't care enough to change, though I'm sure there are better alternatives

it's super easy to customize / remove the tabs in gmail!

The Promotions tab is great. Filters out all the offer emails from companies you've purchased from in the past etc

Very easy to quickly scan through the list to see if there's anything of interest and then bulk delete them.

exactly! Recently I had to go through a bunch of emails on an old work computer where I was using MS Outlook (ah the days of configuring POP3 settings ...) and realized that having to sort through a bunch of promotional email from like Office Depot and gig announcements for concerts in places I will never go ... that used to be a major part of "my email lyfe" and now ... promotions tab + forums tab -- not any more.

Also! Also! being able to have multiple gmail account inboxes show in the app ... I think that was my technology excitement of the month when I figured that out tbh