Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion

Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by 1123581321 on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:11PM (#23529872)

I loved Inbox, but what actually happened there was that there were two visions of Gmail 2.0 internally. Inbox didn’t win, partly because it was written in a nightmarish C++ framework, but some of its best features were brought into Gmail.

Gmail is a conservatively managed product, but it does improve over time.

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by andolanra on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:01PM (#23530701)

Nobody I know who used Inbox feels that the current Gmail interface—even with some Inbox features backported—is an acceptable substitute for Inbox.

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by rocha on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:45PM (#23531314)

Have you tried the Simplify GMail browser extension? It made the transition from Inbox to GMail less painful to me.

https://simpl.fyi/

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by morberg on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @12:32AM (#23535964)

That looks quite nice. Is there an alternative for Safari?

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by 1123581321 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:25PM (#23531074)

Now you know one. :)

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by CarlosEscobedo on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:38PM (#23530334)

Main thing its missing which i miss daily is bundles. Auto travel bundle was super helpful. Also it had a better ui..

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by juliozaravia on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:28PM (#23531109)

I'm intrigued. How could the framework of a certain programming language affect the product, in this case Inbox?

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by 1123581321 on Monday June 15, 2020 @02:33PM (#23531167)

My understanding is that development of Inbox slowed and became unpleasant because the C++ generated JS was unattractive to developers at Google, and it didn’t have the internal support for a rewrite. Since the Gmail product was the incumbent, has more developers and is probably refactored often enough to maintain a certain code quality level, and several Inbox features were compatible with Gmail, the Inbox product had no leverage to get itself enough support to stay alive.

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by msh on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:44PM (#23530421)

What is Gmail written in?

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Re:Basecamp’s founders are trying to start an email rebellion by mynegation on Monday June 15, 2020 @01:51PM (#23530527)

Java, compiled with Closure

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