Ask HN: Do you use Google Inbox? Do you find it incredibly slow on desktop?

Re:Ask HN: Do you use Google Inbox? Do you find it incredibl... by JasonSage on Saturday November 12, 2016 @08:29AM (#12937715)

I used Inbox for a long time, but in the last 6 months or so it has gotten so incredibly slow. I started going to gmail any time I wanted to go straight to an email or compose something.

Inbox was Google's chance to offer something compelling to help me handle email. Inbox was the prime candidate to be a Progressive Web App—it could have been offline-first, use Service Workers and Web Workers effectively to manage requests and stay super-responsive... it was promising. Instead it is what it is now, abhorrently slow and network intensive, with merely fringe "benefits" over the old gmail interface.

I'm going to be switching to Fastmail very, very soon. There's just no reason for me to continue using Google for almost anything.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use Google Inbox? Do you find it incredibl... by chrisked on Saturday November 12, 2016 @11:08AM (#12938508)

I am using gmail and FastMail at the same time. Currently contemplating make a full switch to FastMail. It's a fast and reliable service with all the functionality I need. I encourage you to make to switch. Be prepared to spend a bit more time configuring it if you are used to gmail.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you use Google Inbox? Do you find it incredibl... by JasonSage on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:41AM (#12942735)

Thanks for the heads-up!

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