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Topic # 126798 20-Jul-2013 08:45

Is the gmail web interface down for anyone else? All other sites are fine, other google services are fine, and imap/smtp is fine.

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Reply # 862473 20-Jul-2013 08:46

It's back, and it looks different...

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Reply # 862474 20-Jul-2013 08:47

LOL. Yes there have been some changes.

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Reply # 862828 20-Jul-2013 23:29

Looks the same too me tho, no down time whatsoever. I remember they added the extra inbox tabs like a few days ago tho.

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Reply # 862861 21-Jul-2013 00:39

No change or downtime for my Google Apps accounts

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Reply # 862875 21-Jul-2013 04:50

Full screen compose is new.

My views (except when I am looking out their windows) are not those of my employer.

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Reply # 862902 21-Jul-2013 09:34

Full screen compose as an overlay is new, proper full screen compose that they did until a few months ago was much better IMHO. When I'm writing email I don't care if new emails come in.

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Reply # 863100 21-Jul-2013 16:41

Now I just wish they'd change (or allow an option) the way gmail replies to emails.

the format gets extremely messy after say 5-10 emails back and forward.

At least with Outlook and outlook.com it's consistent.

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Reply # 863102 21-Jul-2013 16:53

Aaroona: Now I just wish they'd change (or allow an option) the way gmail replies to emails.

the format gets extremely messy after say 5-10 emails back and forward.

At least with Outlook and outlook.com it's consistent.

Go into settings and turn off conversation view.

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Reply # 863105 21-Jul-2013 16:59

blakamin:
Aaroona: Now I just wish they'd change (or allow an option) the way gmail replies to emails.

the format gets extremely messy after say 5-10 emails back and forward.

At least with Outlook and outlook.com it's consistent.

Go into settings and turn off conversation view.

Thanks, but not what I meant.

In outlook, when I reply, the format goes like this:

From: aaron@xxxxx.com
To: xxxxxx@gmail.com
Subject: RE:
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:56:02 +1200

Whereas in Gmail, it indents everything then goes;

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Aaron Tanner <aaron@xxxxx.com> wrote:

It gets extremely frustrating, especially for every email you reply to in gmail, it just goes indent-crazy.

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Reply # 863154 21-Jul-2013 18:48

Whats worse is how gmail will drop the end part of an email off if it even slightly looks like a signature, so if someone emails you an address or something and then you reply or foward it, then it gets removed quite often.

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Reply # 863156 21-Jul-2013 18:50

Or in addition to that, it doesn't pick up the signature properly and just keeps reinserting it.

By the end of the email, it's inserted it a million times.

Reasons above, plus a few more, are the reasons I've moved over to outlook.com

I would go to 365, but my email volumes have decreased recently by easily 70%, so can't justify spending money on emails which I don't use often.