I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something

Re:I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Somet... by grownseed on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:38PM (#5651408)

As far as I understand, these UI changes are there to empower "multitasking" and bring Gmail closer to the way social networks and chat work. Now, I loathe the new compose, I like writing my emails in a structured way, with proper formatting, which this new feature doesn't let me do easily (or comfortably); I often use them as reference for docs and whatnot.

I'm not saying this doesn't work for some people, but when I see that a large number of people I communicate with can barely read or write properly as it is, I fail to understand how empowering multitasking will make things any better. I'm a bit tired of the "social networks way" becoming the end-all, be-all.

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Re:I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Somet... by chflamplighter on Friday May 03, 2013 @04:59PM (#5652613)

"I'm a bit tired of the "social networks way" becoming the end-all, be-all."

Hear, Hear!

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Re:I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Somet... by dwb on Saturday May 04, 2013 @07:49PM (#5656792)

I hate receiving long, structured, intricately-formatted emails. If you're writing documents in an email body, don't: that's what Google Docs is for. A good email is as short as possible.

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