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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:40 am

Will someone tell Google to stop messing with gmail. Mad

Every time I login these days, I get an annoying popup informing me about some wonderful new life enhancing improvement that is in fact a step backwards. And it looks horrible. They just about had it right before messing it all up.

Thanks.

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:51 am

As the saying goes if it is not broke don't mend it.

From the first World War, and updated (nearly 100 years later), "They are only playing leap frog, when one computer expert jumped over the other computer experts back". Boom, Boom. Laughing

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 8:56 pm

Captain Pugwash wrote:

Will someone tell Google to stop messing with gmail. Mad

This week I had to give my mobile number to log in to all of my baiting accounts in Gmail. Mad

I am hoping that they don't notice that I gave the same number for more than one account.

Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:39 pm

^^^ I keep hitting "Skip" to bypass giving a number.

What I hate is if I hit "Enter" in the subject field it'll send an empty message. Second is if I accidentally hit either "Control" or "ALT" by accident it'll lock up my Putter. GRRRRR!!!!

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21155

I am very annoyed with the new (improved) version(s). The photos have to be loaded one at a time and they are now making the different areas accessible by the multi tab looking layout. i cannot switch back to the old style that I loved and I cannot get into the label settings on a few accounts.

The only good feature I see so far is the compose page that appears to the side so you can flip back and forth between the mail or you can find the email(s) needed for adding to the new message.

@ Big Al, I had not connected that to those keys but I see that as well. Ctrl. + F5 brings me back though.

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:47 am

If you think that's bad, they just unleashed Hummingbird! The Google Zoo just keeps getting more vicious. Just look what happened when the pandas and penguins attacked. Shocked

The Gmail update annoy me to no end and the fact they not split your inbox 3 ways goes to show how much they think you're disorganised. Now all the emails I'm subscribed to are like: "This email belongs in primary" nonsense.

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:59 am

I really hate to say it but Google is starting to become the modern Micro$oft: making changes for the sake of change, and alienating consumers. I don't know one single person who likes any of the changes Google has made to gmail in the past year or so. Certainly not me. I'm totally fed up but I'm stymied because I can't find an alternative that is any better. Certainly not the "new" Yahoo. I use a few of those accounts for baiting, they are so deeply annoying that I can't imagine using Yahoo for my main RL account.

So even though I am getting increasingly frustrated with Google, I feel trapped. Especially since I have over 25,000 "conversations" archived in my personal/business account. Being able to search those is very often a huge help. I'm reluctant to give that part up, but if they continue to make things worse, for no good reason, I will have to find an alternative.

I have a friend whose nephew is one of the earliest Google employees; rich beyond all imagining. Ostentatious beyond belief. My friend loathes the changes even more than I do. I keep telling her "tell John!!!" But she's not comfortable with that. Crap, here's an inside line to the top tier but she won't bother him with her opinion, even as she calls me 3 times a day to complain about yet another annoying change..........

[/rant]

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:54 am

And now a brief intermission from 2050: citizen Emil Veryman is out of milk.

Emil: "Gee, I'm out of milk. I guess I need to go buy it."

[A 5 minute walk later]

GoogleGrocery: "Hello! Welcome to GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta! Your invitation, please!"
Emil: "Whuh? What's that?"
GoogleGrocery: "GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta is currently invitation only. You may get an invitation from a friend who is already using GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta or by contacting your local Google support number."
Emil: "But I just want to buy some milk! Open the damn door!"
GoogleGrocery: "GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta is currently invitation only. You may get an invitation from a friend who is already using GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta or by contacting your local Google support number."
Emil: "OK, fine! What's the number then?!"
GoogleGrocery: "Please use Google search engine for finding our customer service contact information in your local area."
Emil: "But I'd need a computer for that! Can't you just tell me?!"
GoogleGrocery: "Please use Google search engine for finding our customer service contact information in your local area."
Emil: [Censored.]

[10 minutes and 100 expletives later]

Emil: "Hello? Google customer support? This is Emil Veryman. I'm standing in front of your new GoogleGrocery store and it won't let me in. It says I need an invitation!"
Customer service: "Correct, GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta is currently invitation only. You may get an invitation from a friend who is already using GoogleCrocery 0.7 Beta or..."
Emil: "Yes yes yes, that's why I'm calling you! I need the invitation!"
Customer service: "May I have your first name?"
Emil: "I just told it to you!"
Customer service: "Sir, I need this information in order to fill the invitation sending form B75 that will enable you to use the services of GoogleGrocery."
Emil: [Sigh] "Emil."
Customer service: "Last name."
Emil: "But I just..." [Short pause] "Veryman."
Customer service: "Phone number."
Emil: "Shouldn't you have it? I'm calling you!"
Customer service: "Sir, I need this information in order to fill the invitation sending form B75 that will enable you to use the services of GoogleGrocery."
Emil: [Grunt] "Fine: it's 12062023594."
Customer service: "Your first hamster's name?"
Emil: "Hamsters?"
Customer service: "It's for security purposes."
Emil: "But I've never had a hamster!"
Customer service: "In case you have never had a specimen of the said type of rodent, GoogleFurry 1.03 is available to provide you with one for a cheap price. In order to get invitation you..."
Emil: "Wait wait wait, let's not get hasty! Let's say...Sparky!"
Customer service: "Sparky?"
Emil: "Is there something wrong with that?"
Customer service: "Sparky is a very common name which may be guessed easily and someone might be able to hack your account and pretend purchasing milk from GoogleGrocery as you. We suggest something less obvious."
Emil: "Such as?"
Customer service: "Such as Wh0pp3d33d00l44_9853729655276065287."
Emil: "How am I supposed to remember that?!"
Customer service: "It's for your security, Sir."
Emil: "Um, no, let's go with Sparky after all."
Customer service: "Sparky it is. Finally, your Gmail address, please."
Emil: "A whut?"
Customer service: "The email address provided by Google to which the invitation will be sent."
Emil: "But I have a Yahoo address."
Customer service: "Sorry, new company policy: Google products may only be used through other Google products. By having Google account you can..."
Emil: "You really need me to open a new email account just to buy milk?"
Customer service: "Yes."

[Hang up. Hissing noise.]

[10 minutes and 1000 expletives later.]

Emil: "OK, I now have an account! It's called [email protected]."
Customer service: "Very good, Sir. Now before I send the invitation, I need an answer to your security question."
Emil: "My what now?"
Customer service: "Security question. Your first hamster's name."
Emil: "Oh, OK. Sparky."
Customer service: "Sparky?"
Emil: "Yes."
Customer service: "Are you sure?"
Emil: "We agreed on it together just ten minutes ago!"
Customer service: "Yes, but how can we be sure that you are the rightful owner of this Google account and not just someone guessing the answer to be Sparky? I need to verify this."
Emil: [Deep silence and disbelief.]
Customer service: "First, please stand on your head while singing your country's national anthem backwards in Swahili."
Emil: [Sobbing.]

[50 minutes, lots of public humiliation and one "Oops, our server crashed, we'll have to start over" later.]

GoogleGrocery: "Hello! Welcome to GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta! Your invitation, please!"
Emil: "Here."
GoogleGrocery: "Hello! Welcome to GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta! What do you need?"
Emil: "Milk."
GoogleGrocery: "Hello! Welcome to GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta! GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta offers today for lowered price delicious Mongolian cheeses, excellent breakfast cereal from Cambodia, Lithuanian elderberry juice and..."
Emil: "But I just want to buy some damn milk!"
GoogleGrocery: "Malaysian lama meat, carrots from Brazil, real koala fur from North Pole..."
Emil: "Stop throwing those damn adverts at me!"
GoogleGrocery: ["Blahblahblahblahblah"]
Emil: "Finally! I found the milk! Now I'll just take it and..."
GoogleGrocery: [Crashing a huge metal wall in front of the milk shelf] "Prove us that you are not a thief. Please copy the code iuPHFUyans78ceq0wr7678N+V9b9w78R to a piece of GoogleNotebook paper and bring it to the automated cashier desk for verification."
Emil: "What?! Give me the milk already!"
GoogleGrocery: "Prove us that you are not a thief. Please copy the code iuPHFUyans78ceq0wr7678N+V9b9w78R to a piece of GoogleNotebook paper and bring it to the automated cashier desk for verification."
Emil: "Ha! Managed to slip my fingers there! Yoink!"
GoogleGrocery: "Attention! Unusual activity has been detected on your account. If this kind of shoplifting activity is usual for you, please dismiss this message and wait for the law enforcement to arrive."
Emil: "Catch me if you can!" [Runs to the door.]
GoogleGrocery: "Thank you for using GoogleGrocery 0.7 Beta! Before leaving, please fill this 50 page feedback form in order to..."
Emil: "Laalaalaalaanotlistening!!!"

[2 minutes later back home.]

Emil: "Victory! The dairy product is mine! I wonder what kind of milk I managed to get anyway?"
Milk carton: "Hello! Welcome to GoogleMilk 0.02 Alpha. In order to consume this piece of dairy product, you should verify that you are not fatally allergic to dairy products. Google will not be held responsible for any..."

And this, children, is why people in the past seemed to be less violent.

*** BANNED *** Joined: 26 Jul 2012 Posts: 1116

^ I just laughed and had pictures of a blade runner type society in the background, where the cops will probably terminate you for stealing the milk. Laughing

Juan Freizwidatt wrote:

I really hate to say it but Google is starting to become the modern Micro$oft:

It's actually worse. When an entire company has the potential to shut down a major portion of the internet if ever compromised.... it is worse.

Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:24 am

Completely agree with you all on Google.

And don't get me started on those bloody blue conversation lines that appeared in Twitter the other week.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21155

I just set up a new addy with a prior character that got the kick. I get his when I log in

Quote:

Something's not right.
We're having trouble contacting our servers. We're going to keep trying.

This is the same thing it did to me when I opened the first. They killed that one in just a few days.

Baiting Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 5905

At the risk of being unpopular I like the pop up they brought in a few months back when you compose a new Email which allows you to be able to see the original Email you opened in the background. This is great for baiters as you don't need to flip between Emails when you are cutting and pasting information for Alan or filling in lad questions.

Also earlier this year they made it so if you put an image into an Email they send it as having an attachment. So I found an Abode icon image to put next to my blue underline text. So now when I just send passport.pdf it actually looks to the lad like I have actually sent a file to them. Yes, it does show up as .png file as opposed to a PDF but it looks sufficiently authentic enough to make the average lad click on the blue text for a couple of hours.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21155

I do like the new Compose box for the same reason. I don't care for the image adding though. No more multi image adding.

I also just figured out the problem with my new account. The HANGOUT mess was screwing me up. I changed it to the old style chat and I am in business now.

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 8:22 am

They're still at it. Evil or Very Mad

Tell them Slightly.

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21155

I noted late yesterday that the sign in page for accounts my X-notifier won't open automatically is a real PITA and I have to allow their scripts before I can even click in to get to the sign in page.

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