The New GMail Sucks

Ladies and Gentlemen, today I take up your precious time and invest my energy in putting forth an opinion, that in one short sentence says, The new gmail sucks.

So much so that since I started using gmail more than 7+ years back, I am considering moving to an alternative free email provider. I am inclined towards hotmail. I will give it a shot in a while and see if I want to port to hotmail.

Coming back to the new gmail,  I am not denying that there are some great features. The cascading search bar, the new tabs on left, the conversations are all nice but the underlying UI is really bad. Its very bland in the default theme and once I switch to the HD themes, it looks sick. Reminds me of geocities and freeserver days when people would make gory pages with glittering fonts, blinking images and haphazardly placed text in various fonts.

I sincerely hope that with time, they release some new themes because I cant seem to get the new theme working on my netbook. May be it works nicely on the large monitors used by developers and designers. May be I am too boring for the exciting world of coders and designers to appreciate the design and fluidity in the design! Ofcouse in time, Google devta would prove to be right and I would get used to the new look. This post would be easily forgotten and the anguish I am facing at this minute shall be rendered useless.

Damn!

And just a thought. I dont use Google +. And I have stopped using Google Reader ever since I got the Pulse Reader and RSS Reader on iPad. Whats wrong at Google? Someone at design team at Google needs to be fired? Or its just me?

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agree with you. New gmail look is a total fail.

Anonymous said...

My menu on the left is printed all on top of eachother, the formatting bar floats all over the page when I write an email. WTF? Did they even test this??

Anonymous said...

Nothing wrong with you. It sucks, and if I am forced into having to use it, I'm just leaving google.

Rui Enes Alves said...

Same Problem here menus overlay eachother, total confusion to use gmail now

betterbyintent said...

you know,there is a redeeming value in KEEPING THINGS SIMPLE. these "experts" in google castle is trying to keep their job by mucking things up. the first time i got on the page i could not figure out what the heck was going on. everything was white, i even had to tilt my head to figure out if there were slight color gradation that i might had missed. the entire look was reminding me as if i was in a hospital i.c.u.

betterbyintent said...

if google one day should force me to switch to the new look, i will move to yahoo or verizon or whatever else out there .... it would be a lot of work to get that accomplished - but .... i just can't stand THE EXTRA COMPLICATION IN MY LIFE

cardman400 said...

Agree. It sucks. But not just visually. The way it deals with threads makes no sense, either. To wit, I forwarded myself three job descriptions from Monster. I thought I would see three separate messages in my inbox at gmail. But nooooo. Gmail bundled all three descriptions into one message, and then hid the links to the descriptions under menu tabs. So essentially gmail undid the rudimentary organization that I thought I had put in place.

Anonymous said...

Google is really f'ing things up. If they go through and force me to this new pile of steaming shit that essentially recreates that God-awful Yahoo mail I will leave. I gave them ample feedback about their ugly redesign, their mothers and references to defenceless farm animals. Hopefully it'll shock some overpaid clowns occupying a stupid cubicle and who embrace sterile, politically correct, gay-promoting corporate bullshit. I don't trust Google and their strong cooperation with big brother and their CEO is, without question, a pedophile. Just look at that creep's eyes and listen to his interviews. F Google.

GoogleHell said...

Is Google officially sorry for the inconvenience it has caused? In exchange for Google tracking my email profile I was willing t sell my soul for profit, I was willing to use their service until that the service startered making that very loud SUCKing noise. The only info they will be selling in the future will be from people who have not changed to a better service. Google is worse than Yahoo, WAY worse.

Google %#@*ed up Outlook 2007 access.  My phone won't stop ringing with the double verification I was forced into in an attempt to get it working.  After trying everything for a week to get to work, Google has failed.  BIG FAT F, FUBAR.

I never thought I'd say it but, a Windows phone is looking very appealing right now.

Sydhope said...

I cannot the way to search for a specific email with key words.  I used it so much to find old emails

Sydhope said...

How does one communicate with gmail to answer questions.  I've never figured that out.

Razorback said...

Try GMX at www.gmx.com.  I've been using it for months and like it very much.

Astropeg said...

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Astropeg said...

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