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Well, I knew I couldn't keep up "early morning posting" forever, with Dead Isle...

I'm having one of those Mondays where it feels like I started out behind schedule. And the New Gmail look has finally showed up to stay (there used to be a way to flip it back to classic, not so much anymore) so I've spent some time this morning relearning where everything is and cursing Google for making my nice, sleek Gmail look exactly the way my clunky, hideous school webmail account did in 2002. Seriously, Gmail, you couldn't have offered a "classic" skin in all your themes? You offer a bus stop theme...

And they still haven't integrated the one, the ONE thing I wish they would change, which is to install a one click "delete this email from the thread" button.

Anyway. My frustrations aside, The Dead Isle: Chapter Four is now posted. Knock yourselves out. :D

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There's a Script (http://techie-buzz.com/how-to/revert-old-gmail-interface.html?utm_source=inpost&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=gmpush2) that people can try if they like, to get an older style back. I believe Stylish for Safari exists too, for those Mac users out there who don't use FF or Chrome.

....MY HERO. Thank you!

Let us know how it works. I have the tab open and was going to post the link (but was beaten to the punch) although I haven't personally gotten around to try it.

It seems to be working fine. It doesn't totally eradicate some of the annoying stuff, but visually it's a huge relief.

No problem! I really dislike it and I know others do as well, so I figured there had to be something out there to fix it. I'll just miss my ocean theme when Gmail finally boots me over at home.

Bless you! I loathe the new style - it's impossible to view on my 7" netbook screen.

Won't work on my 9" tablet either. Wankers. Fixed width columns, what is this, 1996?

I don't know which is worse - the new LJ comments interface or the New Look Gmail.

Except that if you select the High-Definition theme, it's the one closest to the old, classic, original.

It's vaguely ironic that "high contrast" is the one that goes most easily on the eyes. :D

I know!

It's having the mail list panel in a pale gray, and of course, the divider lines.

If you check the comment above yours, someone has designed a script to bring Classic Gmail (mostly) back. MAY BE OF INTEREST. *hugs it tightly to him*

I noticed the Gmail thing last night. :-(

It finally made me try and escape at least some of the Big G's tentacles - which is proving harder than I thought (making me even more creeped out).

For email, I'm switching to inbox.com; nice, clean interface, free account with a (very modest) ad attached to outgoing email and very good options for a paid account.
Plus, they responded within 24 hours to a question I asked - an actual, useful response, written by an actual person, who had actually read my email!

As a reader, I'm liking Netvibes.com a lot (the Firefox reader, 'Brief' looks good too; but it's so clean-looking that I can't figure out how to do most of the things I'd want to do with it... Besides, I had trouble subscribing to a number of feeds with it).

So it looks like, in future, I'll be using Google as a search engine only, as much as possible.
(of course I'm keeping my gmail accounts for now, everthing's forwarded).
It's rather nice actually, a fresh clean start!

Huh, interesting! Does Inbox thread emails?

Would you mind if I linked this the next RFM?

Sure, link away!

It doesn't thread, as far as I can tell - but I haven't figured out all the features yet and it's turning out more customizable than I thought initially.
Also, they're working on a beta 2012 version and they really seem truly interesting in hearing what customers have to say, what they want and don't want, etc.

I also love the way they answer any questions quickly, effectively and politely.

I actually wouldn't mind paying the $8.88 a year for a nice, clean, ad-free, backed-up email account with a helpful customer service.

I've also heard good things about mail.com, but personally I thought that sounded too close to gmail.com so it might get confusing when giving people my email address.

There is a two-click way of deleting one email from a conversation ... I take it you know about that one already?

I wish there were a way of stripping attachments from an email, but I am weirdly neurotic about storage space.

Yeah, I just don't like having to click and find it and click again. I want a button, dammit! :D

I wish you could attachment-strip too. Like you, I am neurotic about space. :D

Here's a blog about some of the issues in new gmail just in case it has anything to offer (I don't use gmail):

http://jasoncrawford.org/2012/04/how-to-cope-with-the-gmail-redesign/

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