Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
by realusername on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:21AM
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They are better UX-wise yes but they are also much slower, that's my problem with it. I don't really care to have fancy animations if it takes 5 more seconds to load and 3 more seconds when I click on something. The new Google Maps is bad enough that I use only the phone app now.
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Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
by symlinkk on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:23AM
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Do you have specific examples? Everything is instantaneous for me.
Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
by realusername on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:32AM
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Just loading the empty Google maps page (just https://maps.google.com) takes at least 5 seconds for me. During that time, it's doing so much stuff in the background that it makes the input on the left lag, so during that time, you realistically cannot do much, otherwise you risk to mistype your search.
Every Zoom/Unzoom animation is lagging a lot, the problem is they added that everywhere to make it fancier:
- When you click on a result
- when you click on the arrows on the destination screen
- when you enter a destination
- when you click on another type of transport (car, public transport...)
So all those actions are lagging because of that.
It's probably because they only spent time to optimise it in Chrome but I don't care, I prefer to stop to use GMaps than to use Chrome.
Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
by Mystrl on Sunday September 30, 2018 @02:49AM
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Might just be you. It loads in under a second for me.
Re:Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look
by realusername on Sunday September 30, 2018 @03:04AM
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On which browser? On my case if I open Chrome it loads under a second as well, but I'm using Firefox unfortunately.