Re:Web.dev by Google
by gowld on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:11PM
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A Gmail account has has 10+GB of data. Users for the most part don't want 10GB in browser local storage. Gmail's speed problems are in the backend, not the web UI.
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Re:Web.dev by Google
by joshfraser on Monday November 12, 2018 @08:47PM
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That's not true. Pop open your console and watch the network tab for yourself. Slow websites are almost always due to frontend issues. Besides, Google has the ability to index the entire internet and return results in milliseconds. I'm guessing it's not my 10GB of email that's tripping them up.
Re:Web.dev by Google
by logicallee on Monday November 12, 2018 @10:03PM
(#18438126)
what you've written is totally false. It worked fine on the old UI, and also still works fine in simple HTML mode.
You can see this yourself here: http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ (direct link to html view. you have to already be signed in for this link to work.)
Side note: I'm sure you would have mentioned it, but you don't happen to work at Google on the new Gmail front-end, do you? (Since I could see someone who is, trying to deflect blame for their current bugs by "blaming the back-end".) Just want to make sure...