And I don’t like it. :mad:
Can I keep the old version? 
Do I need to go back to AOHell? :eek:
Any others out there that work like Gmail?
I really like the Gmail that I have been using the last few years. It does things just the way I like. 
Am I doomed? :smack:
If we knew some specifics, it’s possible someone will know a workaround or fix.
The reply window is a small thing on the right side & has no way to add pictures, will not allow me to do anything but a simple text reply to the sender, No CC No BCC, etc…
I am at a loss…
If you mean the new compose window, no, you can’t go back to the old version..
If you mean the tabbed view, I think you can go to the setting (gear icon) -> configure inbox, and uncheck all except the Primary.
I’m pretty sure you can just drag and drop pictures onto the window. And the paperclip icon on the bottom is for file attachments. There should be “CC” and “BCC” icons near the top right. And a “full screen” button at the top right of the window, next to the close (x) button.
And it has context sensitive help. Just “hover” the cursor at these buttons/icons and it’ll tell you what it’s for.
On my gmail, CC and BCC are on the right of the header if you’e clicked in it and the ability to add pictures, links, emoticons, format text and insert files via drive are all an expanded option from the + sign at the bottom.
Look again & rejoice.
Everything you mention still works.
It’s the Facebook syndrome:
Stage 1: They’re changing Facebook. It’s horrible. Put it back the way it was. That was just fine.
<a few months later>
Stage 2: They’re changing Facebook. It’s horrible. Put it back the way it was in Stage 1. That was just fine.
<a few months later>
Stage 3: They’re changing Facebook. It’s horrible. Put it back the way it was in Stage 2. That was just fine.
<repeat every few months>
Surely you could connect outlook or another email program to your gmail account and have any interface you like?
The bottom right menu in the compose window allows you to set full screen as the default size for the window.
It took me a few days to realize that some of my messages were being sorted into other tabs and I missed seeing them in my main inbox. (I found it annoying that they changed the setting automatically. I would have preferred to have been given the chance to select the new option if I had preferred it.) I just changed the settings so all my messages appear in the main one. I may decide to change it back in the future if I decide my “social” messages are taking up too much of my inbox.
When I went to gmail for the first time after the change, it gave me a big box in the window explaining the changes, that I had to click out of.
Thanks.,… Still looking… Gah !!!
For what? You still haven’t told us what changes you want reverted back.
I must have missed it. Maybe I was in a hurry and didn’t look carefully at the new options.
How’s this for a total threadshit: Huh? I use gmail every day, and I’m not seeing ANY of the things being discussed in this thread.
Well, as I’ve mentioned umpteen times already, I run my browser with JavaScript disabled most of the time, which really simplifies a lot of things. Some sites behave quite nicely in this mode, and gmail seems to be one such. (Other sites are like crap with JS disabled, but a lot of those are crap in any case.)
I also have my gmail set up to run in “Basic HTML mode”, one of the options that I see down at the bottom of the message list page. This seems to turn gmail into a old-fashioned plain-old-plain-text e-mail system (sort of), kinda like we used to do in the 1980’s. It also seems to turn OFF that column of advertising links that I used to see at the right side of the screen. (Does gmail still do that? I haven’t seen it for several years now!)
What I get is a basic, no-frills e-mail service, by which I can send and receive plain-text messages. Simply, whatever I can type in plain English on my keyboard. I can also include links (but I have to hand-type them or cut-and-paste from somewhere, and I can still send and receive file attachments. It’s all I really need in an e-mail system.
I’ve never forgiven UW for terminating development of pine. Ah, for the good old days of text based mail readers, gopher and Usenet.
Now get off my lawn!
Stranger
You sort of asked and answered yourself there - using basic HTML means you don’t get all the fancy javascript stuff that new features depend on. I use basic as well for this reason, as well as it being faster (my connection can be iffy). These new changes are tiresome, not really improving the service or experience, and I’m sure causing a lot of people to consider moving.
So next question… any good free email services not part of the NSA ring?
It certainly seems to me that Google developers don’t see the world the way most people do. We use a skinned version of Gmail as our company email, and since the changes I have had loads of people ask me “How do I do <simple task X>? The button’s disappeared!”. Simple things like editing the subject of an email are now hidden away in dropdown menus with the only clue to their existence being a tiny triangle.
I’m quite used to it by now but even now I sometimes find myself doing the annoying “menu hunt” for a function that I know is in there somewhere.
So you’re kind of like that guy in The Matrix who could look at the screen of scrolling characters and know what’s going on. 