Since the beginning of the year, every time Google does its "log you out after 30 days", @gmail can no longer load at all. The only way to repair it is to delete all the cookies from http://mail.google.com .
This has been broken for two full months.
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Huge numbers of programmers are ostensibly employed to work on these projects, but they only degrade and never improve. Why is this? Why is the only things that seem to happen "UI overhauls" which usually _remove_ features and tell you to "switch back to the old UI" to do things?
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I guess this is what happens where there is centralized control and not a lot of competition. Products don't get better because they don't have to. It's very hard for new entrants to compete, so teams that repeatedly fail to deliver quality software never die off.
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As a result, it's just basically random. You get whatever happens to come out of that team. It doesn't matter that it's worse, because there's no natural selection to weed it out and end up with something better :( So frustrating.
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gmail, the only email client I know that needs a loading screen. With the last version, the loading screen got prettier. And it displays for longer; can't tell if it's because what comes after loads slower, or if the new animation itself needs more time to load.
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Sometime ago a designer told me to add fake loading a webpage so that their pretty loader had time to appear.
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