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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by Andrex on Friday October 18, 2013 @01:49AM (#6569982)
It's a marketing page. Would it be better to just have a login form like before? As long as Gmail itself remains minimalistic, what difference does a marketing page make?
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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by badclient on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:00AM (#6570000)
As long as Gmail itself remains minimalistic

Gmail stopped being minimalistic a while ago...

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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by Andrex on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:25PM (#6572214)
See comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572206
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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by tty on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:40AM (#6570105)
>As long as Gmail itself remains minimalistic

Unless you're using the basic HTML view for Gmail, I don't see how Gmail is minimalistic.

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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by Andrex on Friday October 18, 2013 @12:25PM (#6572206)
Care to explain how Gmail _isn't_ minimalistic?

Compared to native email apps with excessive amounts of panes, buttons, sorters, etc., Gmail is minimalistic nirvana.

http://i.imgur.com/XiwAn8U.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YSBK5us.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8Acgrn1.png

vs

http://i.imgur.com/RMg8UPY.png

Hell, even compare Gmail today to how it used to look:

http://i.imgur.com/fHQjL0n.png

The new Gmail's focus on whitespace, hiding buttons that don't do anything yet (until you check things of course), the new compose panel (with ultra-minimalistic controls and send to/from fields), Google's removal of the black bar, the auto-overflow for labels, lack of borders, lack of "containers," etc. etc. all convince me of Gmail's minimalism.

Just about the only thing that isn't minimal about it anymore is the footer.

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Re:New Gmail un-minimalistic homepage by lennel on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:53AM (#6570137)
It got a bit better again, they dropped the top menu for calender, drive, plus etc into a non-modal popup.
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