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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by jondubois on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:04AM (#15138673)
I like most Google products but I think that Gmail is the wost email client that was ever created. The default way in which it groups emails is terrible:

1. They have three tabs for emails, so to check if I have any new emails, I literally have to click through 3 different tabs.

2. When I have long email threads, new emails get lost under the clutter instead of showing up at the top of my inbox like a rational human being would expect.

3. When I actually click to open an email thread; 99% of the stuff is collapsed and I keep having to expand it out which is really annoying.

With a lot of modern web-based email clients, I always feel like the company is trying to hide my own emails from me which is creepy - That's why I like the simplest layout possible. New emails should always appear at the top and highlighted as unread.

When Marissa Mayer came to Yahoo, she changed the Yahoo email web client so that it would group emails in the Google way. I lost faith in humanity that day. I almost quit the service but thankfully at least they had a setting which allowed me to revert back to the correct way.

Maybe Gmail has a setting to display emails correctly (like Yahoo) but I haven't heard about it.

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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by yazan94 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:33AM (#15140135)
> Maybe Gmail has a setting to display emails correctly (like Yahoo) but I haven't heard about it.

There is. I ended up setting up my Gmail where unread and read emails are in separate accordion-like sections. The 3 tabs thing makes for horrible UX

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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by rapind on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:39AM (#15139841)
1. Agreed it's a horrible design. Luckily you can turn tabs off and go back to a normal inbox.

3. This IMO is good design and you can expand all (although I almost never need to do so myself).

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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by tripzilch on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:14AM (#15140870)
You can disable the tab thing in your first point. I did that almost as soon as it rolled out. No idea where the setting for that is though (I suppose somewhere in the gmail settings screen).
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Re:Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech G... by micael_dias on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:55AM (#15139073)
I don't like Gmail either. But inbox.google.com is awesome.
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