New G-mail Interface

Bradlin

Does anyone else think the new G-mail interface looks like a rubbish bin in a skip on a landfill in Athlone?

NOVA MCMXCIV

Hey!! I like rubbish bins in skips on landfills in Athlone!

RabbleRouser2k

Bradlin wrote: »

Does anyone else think the new G-mail interface looks like a rubbish bin in a skip on a landfill in Athlone?

Is this smartphone only? Or PC? I haven't seen the new interface, though I do have the new twitter interface on my phone...and it's odd they moved the menus.

Cookie_Monster

Bradlin wrote: »

Does anyone else think the new G-mail interface looks like a rubbish bin in a skip on a landfill in Athlone?

no, they have far more colour and definition than the gmail mess.

Discodog

Settings - go back to old g mail - sorted.

jim salter

It's an absolute fukin disgrace of an interface. Looks like they allowed baby infants with crayons design it.
Google have become nothing more than a data gathering & advertising company. They don't give two fuks about the user experience

Annasopra

Yeah its horrible alright

Ulysses Gaze

It is f!cking dreadful and I can see it being changed again in a year or two's time.

Discodog

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

It is f!cking dreadful and I can see it being changed again in a year or two's time.

All sites employ developers who have to justify their existence.

verycool

Use Protonmail!

Campogna

I don't think it's that bad really, it takes getting used to but now my inbox looks a lot cleaner and the old interface was getting a bit dated.

jim salter

verycool wrote: »

Use Protonmail!

Have done for a few years and admittedly, their interface could do with a little update

RabbleRouser2k

Discodog wrote: »

Settings - go back to old g mail - sorted.

The new layout will be the default from October or so.

i don't like it
too much whitespace
change it back

Wanderer78

jim salter wrote:

It's an absolute fukin disgrace of an interface. Looks like they allowed baby infants with crayons design it. Google have become nothing more than a data gathering & advertising company. They don't give two fuks about the user experience

Errr emmm, this has always been it's business model

verycool

bluewolf wrote: »

i don't like it
too much whitespace
change it black

^ that'll remove the whitespace. :P

verycool

verycool wrote: »

^ that'll remove the whitespace. :P

i see a red door and i want to paint it black

AllForIt

Microsoft mail is much better but it still needs some tweaking. It seems to be a bit on the slow side in comparison to gmail but if this is ironed out I'll be using it permanently.

dotsman

Do people still use the web interface for email? I thought those days died out with the millennium :eek:

biko

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verycool

dotsman wrote: »

Do people still use the web interface for email? I thought those days died out with the millennium :eek:

Businesses who'd rather their provider be gmail rather than O365?

RabbleRouser2k

dotsman wrote: »

Do people still use the web interface for email? I thought those days died out with the millennium :eek:

Yep, via tablet or laptop. I can use phones for texting and face book messenger, but for emails I'm more cautious-I can't afford a typo.

OldMrBrennan83

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Is this smartphone only? Or PC? I haven't seen the new interface, though I do have the new twitter interface on my phone...and it's odd they moved the menus.

I know there's a redesign coming for the app but I didn't think it was coming yet. The website changed a few months ago.

Riesen_Meal

I like it, and I kind of like the whitespace, it goes nicely with the design UI of Pie, I like how it's pretty much same functionality whether I'm on a desktop or on my Pixel 2...

Then again, it always had got that, so it's nowt new just a lick of paint I suppose...

Peregrine

Got the option to change a few weeks ago and clicked no for no particular reason.

Only realising now that I've been using a new GMail interface at work.

I don't see the issue. It's fine.

Eggs For Dinner

I hate Gmail. Outlook is much easier and clean looking

verycool

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

I hate Gmail. Outlook is much easier and clean looking

Use Thunderbird!

dotsman

verycool wrote: »

Businesses who'd rather their provider be gmail rather than O365?

Your provider can still be gmail (my personal email is) or any email provider (or you can even be your own email provider!, but I haven't used a web interface in almost 2 decades.

Outlook or Thunderbird is far, far, far superior.

RabbleRouser2k wrote: »

Yep, via tablet or laptop. I can use phones for texting and face book messenger, but for emails I'm more cautious-I can't afford a typo.

So doesn't it make sense to use a proper email client to type your emails rather than a web interface?

RabbleRouser2k

dotsman wrote: »

Your provider can still be gmail (my personal email is) or any email provider (or you can even be your own email provider!, but I haven't used a web interface in almost 2 decades.

Outlook or Thunderbird is far, far, far superior.



So doesn't it make sense to use a proper email client to type your emails rather than a web interface?

Yes, true. I suppose I'm a creature of habit, I guess?

CollyFlower

Use the desktop site... Here.... https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/15viwrz3ewz10/?&

freshpopcorn

I always hate these things when they new but I just get used to them!

Donald Trump

verycool wrote: »

Use Thunderbird!

Thunderbird me arse*


w3m is where it's at baby. Use that and the html version of gmail.











*coincidentally that's what your sister asked me to do to her last night

Donald Trump

bluewolf wrote: »

i don't like it
too much whitespace
change it back

Once you go black, something something


apparently

Donald Trump

Anyway, if yiz want to know about emails, ask Hillary.

She's the expert on emails

mikhail

Bradlin wrote: »

Does anyone else think the new G-mail interface looks like a rubbish bin in a skip on a landfill in Athlone?

I don't like it very much, but that Athlone comment is harsh.

AllForIt

dotsman wrote: »

Do people still use the web interface for email? I thought those days died out with the millennium :eek:

You've got it the wrong way round. The web interface is the advancement. Using a email client is what is old. No one needs their emails downloaded to their PC anymore with constant online speedy access.

OldMrBrennan83

dotsman wrote: »

So doesn't it make sense to use a proper email client to type your emails rather than a web interface?

Nope. You're cutting out faff by using it directly. Less links in the chain.
I'd even rather use the outlook365 webpage for my work email than the actual Outlook program itself.

dotsman

AllForIt wrote: »

You've got it the wrong way round. The web interface is the advancement. Using a email client is what is old. No one needs their emails downloaded to their PC anymore with constant online speedy access.

Patww79 wrote: »

Nope. You're cutting out faff by using it directly. Less links in the chain.
I'd even rather use the outlook365 webpage for my work email than the actual Outlook program itself.

Not sure where to begin, but off the top of my head...

• Firstly, not everyone has constant speedy access. I, and quite a few people, will use their laptop in taxi's, on trains & planes. So having my entire email and calendar history available is essential.
• Web interfaces are far slower than client for navigation. This cannot be overstated. Seriously, try using a proper client and you will never go back to web interface.
• Client layout can be customised for better reading/navigation
• Desktop client is a separate application to your browser. Rather than having your email hidden in a tab (when you may have 20+ tabs open), you have a dedicated application and notification process - you can simply have outlook running in the background while you work/play
• You don't need to constantly re-sign in to a desktop application - there is no such concept as a connection timeout. Your email client starts up on on log in to windows and stays open until you log off.
• Web interface tends to be far clunkier and dumbed down (depending on the interface you are referring to - outlook 365 as example). Client is clean and clear and contains a lot more info.
• With a client, you have the exact same and consistent experience regardless of email provider.
• Client provides far better dictionary/grammar correction.
• You lose a lot of essential real estate in a browser with the tabs, navigation bar, bookmark bar etc.
• Web interfaces are always trying to catch up with clients. Clients are the one that are always ahead in terms of design and functionality.

xi5yvm0owc1s2b

AllForIt wrote: »

No one needs their emails downloaded to their PC anymore with constant online speedy access.

Personally, I'd rather have my data on my computer than on Google's computers. So I always download my email.

Mint Sauce

Looks the exact same for me as it has always done. But if there was an option to go back to the classic/orriginal mode I would use it, if I thought it was that bad. The same as I use Boards Lecacy Mode, instead of that horrid Responsive Mode.

Wanderer78

Aubree Scruffy Vinyl wrote:

Personally, I'd rather have my data on my computer than on Google's computers. So I always download my email.

Probably saved on multiple servers anyway

OldMrBrennan83

dotsman wrote: »

Not sure where to begin, but off the top of my head...

• Firstly, not everyone has constant speedy access. I, and quite a few people, will use their laptop in taxi's, on trains & planes. So having my entire email and calendar history available is essential.
• Web interfaces are far slower than client for navigation. This cannot be overstated. Seriously, try using a proper client and you will never go back to web interface.
• Client layout can be customised for better reading/navigation
• Desktop client is a separate application to your browser. Rather than having your email hidden in a tab (when you may have 20+ tabs open), you have a dedicated application and notification process - you can simply have outlook running in the background while you work/play
• You don't need to constantly re-sign in to a desktop application - there is no such concept as a connection timeout. Your email client starts up on on log in to windows and stays open until you log off.
• Web interface tends to be far clunkier and dumbed down (depending on the interface you are referring to - outlook 365 as example). Client is clean and clear and contains a lot more info.
• With a client, you have the exact same and consistent experience regardless of email provider.
• Client provides far better dictionary/grammar correction.
• You lose a lot of essential real estate in a browser with the tabs, navigation bar, bookmark bar etc.
• Web interfaces are always trying to catch up with clients. Clients are the one that are always ahead in terms of design and functionality.

None of those really matter.

dotsman

Patww79 wrote: »

None of those really matter.

To you maybe. They are, after all, subjective. But there's no denying that an email client offers "more" to a user than a web interface. If a user doesn't want/need any of those additional features, then fine, they can stick with the Web, but most people would benefit from at least some of the additional/superior features of a desktop client.

Bradlin

mikhail wrote: »

I don't like it very much, but that Athlone comment is harsh.

Apologies, I didn't mean Athlone. Bloody predictive text - I hate it.

I meant to say Mullingar.