Gmail Changes
I wonder how long I can ignore the ‘switch to new look’ window before they force me to make it look like G+?
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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November 3rd, 2011 at 3:54 pm
They actually let you switch back temporarily if you make the mistake of voluntarily switching.
I switched, went, “NOPE! Do not want.” and was able to go back
November 3rd, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Where the hell was the go back button for google reader!?
November 3rd, 2011 at 3:58 pm
If my experience with Google Docs is any indication, about 2 months.
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:09 pm
With this change combined with the change to Reader, and this article – http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/03/google-plus-is-not-a-social-network/ – I really think that I am done with Google.
November 3rd, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I think they gave you the option on gmail because there was a lot of bitching about Reader.
November 3rd, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I just made the mistake of switching. Now I cannot find the go back button.
I can still read GMail from the other clients I have. I logged my critique. It will go nowhere. It was interesting that they had a pre-canned complaint option for “spacing”.
Who the hell puts lines that far apart?
November 3rd, 2011 at 5:27 pm
I’m hoping that due to the fallout on reader and gmail, they’re going to leave a “classic” option…
Reader wouldn’t be so bad if it had some (ANY!) customization options. For me, the worst part is the lack of border around individual articles… short ones (like many of yours, Unc) I have actually missed and not realized it.
November 3rd, 2011 at 5:39 pm
+1 to Fox – that’s my only real gripe about the new Reader look.
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:01 pm
If you switch to the new look, click on the gear shaped settings icon and click on compact, that will fix most of the spacing issues.
The new look is pretty bad even with that though.
November 3rd, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I’m getting really fed-up with all of Google’s fascist and user-unfriendly Stalinist BS – and I never liked their “conversation” threading approach.
I’m inclined go back to Yahoo! mail. Hell, even AOL is a better email-resource – and free too.
November 3rd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Nanananana … I’m not listening … nananana.
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:37 pm
I still use the old look…. you know the one that wasn’t horrible.
November 3rd, 2011 at 9:46 pm
I use mail clients to access Gmail and hardly ever look at the web page. Hardly ever will probably become never if it looks as bad as Reader does.
November 3rd, 2011 at 11:22 pm
Click on the gear and choose “Compact”, or “Revert to the old look, temporarily.”
November 4th, 2011 at 4:03 am
What a travesty! Did google lose all their real graphic designers or something? What on earth makes them think a big, ugly, dismal black bar across the some of the screen is better than what they have now???
November 4th, 2011 at 8:26 am
…and their color choices STINK!
Who came up with these ocularly-lethal combinations?
Awful. I may actually go back to using my old Yahoo account.
November 4th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
The do seem to have lost any sense of graphic design outside the overall use of Helvetica (Akzidenz Grotesk).
November 4th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
To those who told me how to go to “Compact” and go back…thanks a bunch.
And yes, the conversation-style threading of emails absolutely sucks. I have always hated it.
I only used GMail for little stuff for years. Now I use it much more, so this is starting to bug me. Of course…now I am somewhat stuck.
November 4th, 2011 at 4:39 pm
D2K and Lucas beat me to it – the Compact view in the new Google Mail is not too bad… at least it does not waste acres of screen real estate. I just wish Google Reader would color hyperlinks in some fashion; right now, they just look like any other underlined text.