Comments on: Does Your Gmail Suck Too?

By: belkin

belkin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:23:40 +0000

Yes, I also hate gmail. I moved over from Yahoo because Yahoo let a hacker into my account an 12 years worth of messages/memories were erased. Now I use gmail and they lose my messages all the time. The problem is, I don't know which ones they are losing. And, I don't use it heavily, or for business either.

The thread system sucks and it is very easy to overlook a reply if you are recieving replies from multple recipients of the same email.

Also, when you reply, it always sends the whole thread even though you might want to reply to each induvidual uniquely.

gmail sucks. I might go back to Yahoo.

By: seiyakou

seiyakou — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:30:10 +0000

Yep gmail sucks. It’s so frustrating and annoying when that loading bar stops every now and then. It makes you want to strangle it. Literally. I’ve been using it instead of Yahoo! now I’m regretting it. I feel like I should just close both of them and go back to yahoo. The problem is that I like the iGoogle theme and BS. But they really need to fix the loading thing for Gmail, it really makes me want to strangle a child. Or kick an infant. LITERALLY.

By: James

James — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:21:21 +0000

I’ve been flipping back and forth from the “newer” version to the “older” version, watching one widget disappear after the other… I cannot find any evidence that the features which are said to exist in the help files actually exist in either old or new versions…

It’s sucks… Some of the help pages are missing too… in fact… alot of them are…

And… within the first five minutes of using it… I watched that god damn loading bar stop dead in it’s tracks at least 3-4 times… all the while hearing my desktop email chime loud as a bell while my communications actually continued…

GMAIL SUCKS ASS!!!

By: tom

tom — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:06:58 +0000

Google Apps Premier sucks! IMAP implementation is a nightmare where our accounts get locked out HOURS! This is totally unacceptable for business.

Gmail on a personal usage is fine, I use it too. No issues.

For anyone considering Google Apps Premier for business - I recomend you to rethink it! seriously... it will come to you

By: matan

matan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:16:18 +0000

i now have some problem too, that is how i got here…

By: Mohamed

Mohamed — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:09:42 +0000

Hi guys,

I use Firefox and every time I go to my Gmailbox it is loaded twice. I don't have this problem with internet explorer though. Any thoughts would be appreciated!

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:53:07 +0000

I just switched back to yahoo.com mail… i have had MAJOR issues wth my gmail… they calendar won’t sync up properly…i can’t get INTO gmail… can’t open any emails at times…it hangs when sending or won’t send at all…and i’m talking HOURS not minutes….VERY DISAPPOINTED!

By: Abhishek Kumar

Abhishek Kumar — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:56:22 +0000

Guys,

Its all about scale you know. In its initial days, gmail did not have that many users and was working absolutely fine. But then, it started growing and now it is starting to taste the bitterness of scale, so it is bound to suck unless they plan according to the expected gowth. Yahoo is I guess still more reliable considering the scale they operate at ( I am talking about email and not search). Their new UI is anyday better than gmail's UI. Considering going back to yahoo as the primary account does seem possible now that gmail is pushing me away and chasing me with a stick in its hand.

By: McDozer

McDozer — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:16:58 +0000

YES! YES!!! YES!!! It sucks BIIIG Time!

By: sophia

sophia — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:03:20 +0000

NUMBER ONE! gmail is beast adn for u people that think i tsucks u have no life wat so ever!

By: TOshi

TOshi — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:32:21 +0000

i agree, had loads of problems with attachments, i got back from a business trip in japan and i had a ton of pictures i wanted to send to about 20 people i met (including clients) only 5 made it and half the pictures were missing.

Truly disappointed especially when i heard nothing but good things (my brothers raves about it, really dunno why) gone back to outlook and hotmail

By: thetallnathan

thetallnathan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:01:57 +0000

I dig the gmail interface, the integrated chat, the storage capacity, the themes, etc. And when it's working, it works great. But it seems like in recent months, I've been getting a lot more glitches and errors. I'll be locked out of email for 10-30 minutes or messages won't send on the first try. This shit is happening with more frequency lately. If they could get it together to stop that stuff, it'd be just terrific.

As for the other Google Apps, I really like Google Docs. I work for a company with very decentralized operations - folks in all time zones of the U.S. and overseas. We use Google Docs almost as a group wiki for certain operations. And for shared contacts and other info. Very useful.

That said, don't get me started about Google Calendars. They're great for personal use, but trying to use them for a big group meeting where you want RSVPs is chock full of problems.

By: PRADEEP

PRADEEP — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:05:31 +0000

Yeah, GMAIL used to be awesome…but now it is so slow and frustrating. It has all kind of hiccups and automatically breaks the connection. I only have a problem with GMAIL with this. I may have to go back to using my yahoo account. I emailed gmail 2 weeks ago with my problems, but no response. Very dissapointing!

By: louis

louis — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:01:32 +0000

I've been using google apps for two different domains, one with light personal usage, and another for a business. I can attest that the service for free and business is the same. And by the same, I mean there is at least one issue per day with the service being sub-par. Specifically, I get the dreaded 'Oops.' error several times a day, and At least once a week I get a 500 server error.

I think the problem, though, isn't with what they're offering. I think they just can't scale to the overwhelming usage they're offering. They're too successful at getting people to use them, but not capable of handling that success.

By: tim

tim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:07:57 +0000

I used gmail originally due to it's large storage.
Thankfully they forced others such as yahoo and live mail to increase their storage.

Once the other companies did, I switched back to live mail. It is excellent and the fact I can use the outlook connector to view my information in Outlook (including calendar) there is no reason for me to ever go back to gmail. The labeling is useless to me if I want to search for something I can use the search function and if I want to sort by sender, subject size, sent or attachement I can do that as well. The beauty of it was I was able to transfer all of my mail to hotmail by using GMails IMAP function and copying the emails into my folder for my live account. Then I just clicked on the forwarding in gmail and had all my new mail go to my live account. Absolutely seamless.

Gmail forced the competition to increase their storage capacity and for that I will always be grateful. Their mail system is just unusable to me and one which I will never return to unless they allow sorting.

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