Google+ Circles vs the Inbox Tag (as in sometimes e-mail won't be in your inbox)

Mr. Analog · March 31, 2015, 12:04:16 PM

NOTE TO G+ USERS

I discovered recently that SOMETIMES e-mail from people in your G+ Circles does not also get the INBOX tag so if that is your default view (which is probably the case for 90% of us) then you're not going to see e-mail from people. You have to click on Circles to find e-mail from people that you may have missed.

If this happens you have to manually set up a rule to tag e-mail from these people with the INBOX tag

Google's response to this issue is basically "it's your problem brah", so just be aware friends may be mailing you but you may not be seeing it

Once again, great idea, DEAR GOD WHY-style implementation.

Thanks Google

Thoogle.

Tom · March 31, 2015, 12:17:20 PM

Yeah.. I'm glad I ditched gmail after realizing they broke mailing lists on gmail/pop3 (and possibly imap?). If they can't bother to make things work the way they should, and just say "not our problem/works as intended" to a serious bug, then they can suck an egg.

I decided to run my own email.

as annoying as it is, it seems to work better than gmail for my uses.

Darren Dirt · March 31, 2015, 12:44:11 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 31, 2015, 12:04:16 PM
Once again, great idea, DEAR GOD WHY-style implementation.

Thanks Google

Makes sense from the perspective of Google, they want to "force" the Gmail users to discover (and use) the other social-media connectivity features... even if not needed by most of us.

The only reason I have ANY kind of "Circle" configuration at all is because I did a Google Voice Chat with my brother-in-law sometime around Christmas.

I don't think I've clicked a Circle or G+ link intentionally since then.

Mr. Analog · March 31, 2015, 12:56:23 PM

Well, it SHOULD have been the other way 'round have everything go to the inbox and tag Circles stuff with the Circle they belong to

Again, GoogleThink leads to backwards design

Sort of like having a teeny tiny text edit area akin to a chat window FOR E-MAIL MESSAGES by default.

Their community liaison for addressing feedback on changes like this always tries (at first) to spin stuff like this as a positive but then just starts closing threads people open linking to a marketing-speak BS post that fixes nothing.

Darren Dirt · March 31, 2015, 01:02:31 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 31, 2015, 12:56:23 PM
Again, GoogleThink leads to backwards design

Sort of like having a teeny tiny text edit area akin to a chat window FOR E-MAIL MESSAGES by default.

But... "compose smarter not harder!"

Mr. Analog · March 31, 2015, 01:21:41 PM

My theory is they're running out of drive space so they're trying to scare users away

Thorin · March 31, 2015, 01:35:38 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 31, 2015, 01:21:41 PM
My theory is they're running out of drive space so they're trying to scare users away

I really don't think so... https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/

Mr. Analog · March 31, 2015, 01:38:51 PM

Quote from: Thorin on March 31, 2015, 01:35:38 PM
Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 31, 2015, 01:21:41 PM
My theory is they're running out of drive space so they're trying to scare users away

I really don't think so... https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/

Yottabyte! Yatta!

Darren Dirt · March 31, 2015, 04:34:09 PM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on March 31, 2015, 01:38:51 PM
Yottabyte! Yatta!

Bastard.

Also, Colin Mochrie looks almost the same nearly 20* years later... #wtf

*oops, only 14 years -- http://wiki.animutationportal.com/Irrational_Exuberance

Mr. Analog · March 31, 2015, 04:37:35 PM

All those Ho-Downs and exposure to Clive Anderson permanently stopped his aging in 1991

also possibly duck tape

Darren Dirt · March 31, 2015, 04:46:01 PM

Quote from: Thorin on March 31, 2015, 01:35:38 PM
I really don't think so... https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/

PS: thank you for my new forum profile pic (don't know why but it's just awesome to me right now)

Thorin · March 31, 2015, 04:53:32 PM

You're welcome. I used to work for Domino's Pizza.

Also, estimating a company's data storage based on how many megawatts of power they use, that's an interesting way to estimate that.

Darren Dirt · April 01, 2015, 08:38:29 AM

Quote from: Thorin on March 31, 2015, 04:53:32 PM
You're welcome. I used to work for Domino's Pizza.

Also, estimating a company's data storage based on how many megawatts of power they use, that's an interesting way to estimate that.

Analogous to counting your $eriou$ $tacks of ca$h by just weighing the damn things