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Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by _blob on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:51AM (#8636279)
The month view is not gone ("three dot" menu on the right side -> Month) and you can easily untick `Events` per account to hide them.

The gmail app still allows you to use a list to select different accounts (tap on the account name).

Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by cjp on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:18AM (#8636435)
Nope. The three dot menu has Schedule, Day, 5 Day, Search and Refresh. There is no Month there.

By the way, limiting to 5 days is at best inflexible. Many people want to look at 7 days because, you know, that's a week.

Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by _blob on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:57AM (#8636688)
A quick search reveals, that the Week/ Month view is not available on phones (I only own an N7). Definitely a step backward.
Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by collyw on Thursday November 20, 2014 @11:16AM (#8636418)
Three dots. Obvious it is a menu (sarcasm).

I have just realized in the last month or so that three stacked bars is a menu (bootstrap style). I am sure those have been around for a while now.

Re:Stop Changing UIs for No Good Reason by nitrogen on Thursday November 20, 2014 @01:03PM (#8637090)
So-called hamburger menus. New Relic has oh so helpfully moved everything useful into a hamburger menu it took ages to find (it even turns into a picture of a hamburger bun when you hover), while useless trivial distinctions get giant, labeled dropdown menus. The affordances are all backward. But I bet everybody clicking around looking for the features they used to use showed more "engagement" with the site, right?