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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by PurpleRamen on Saturday September 29, 2018 @07:11AM (#18099772)
> What the hell is going on at Google?

Iterations are going on. There is a school of thought that believes any kind of movement is progress. May it movement into good or bad direction. Thats why companys regulary rehaul their apps, the design and corperate identity. It always end with some people becoming unhappy, but hopefully more people being happy.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone from Google here? The new Gmail UI is painful by peatmoss on Saturday September 29, 2018 @10:52AM (#18100672)
Change for change’s sake. I feel like F/OSS has a potential advantage here in being able to take the time to build durable, long-lived, stable software.

The web-everything world we live in right now has led to a cambrian explosion in new UI metaphors and visual design. I can only hope at some point we all wake up and decide that GNUMail running on GNU Hurd has gotten really stable, and that maybe we should all just re-adopt open protocols and native apps.

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