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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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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not to mention the 10 second loading screen "Feature". how could anyone possibly think that is better than what they had before?
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the loading screen is 2.5 seconds on my computer. a classic case of your program being as slow as your engineer’s computers are fast
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the problem here is gmail has 1 billion users and does not have 1 billion developers
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It would have taken 0 developers to not redesign it a few months back. GMail had a very nice fast UI, and now I have to choose between poor design and waiting a minute (not joking, Chromebook user here) for it to start.
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Perverse incentives: being responsible for _launching_ a UI overhaul gets you promoted. Fixing bugs is a career deadend.
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