Comments on: Gmail Conversations

By: dezz

dezz — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:46:52 +0000

So many years now and still no manual grouping of conversations

redicoulus

With FB introducing messaging Google will lose millions of ppl

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:30:39 +0000

I just can’t believe that Google still hasn’t added a lab to allow you to turn off conversations altogether. Just seems like bad programming to me. If I know that there is a “feature” that has glitches, I offer the page without the feature. Can’t the big G do the same?

By: sam

sam — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:30:44 +0000

Joe, we aren’t talking about major life changes here. I just want to be able to read my email a 100% of the time.

Give me date and time sorting or give me death.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 04:45:21 +0000

I like the conversation view it improves my mail reading experience 90% of the time. And the losses in the other 10% aren’t irrecoverable.

Innovation requires change.
Changes can be scary.
And the first one isn’t the final destination.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:14:00 +0000

I must say, this ‘conversation’ thing does annoy me too, sometimes it gathers completely unrelated messages into one conversation(ie, messages from different people, with different subjects, etc., I can’t even begin to understand how they dos it), then when you want to browse quickly through your “sent” mail or “received” mail, that’s another annoying bit, as mail gets hidden behind one single thread, even it it doesn’t belong there!!
If they don’t offer another viewing option soon, I might give it up too!

By: Trejkaz

Trejkaz — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:36:00 +0000

I like the notion of conversations and the way that tags apply per-thread instead of per-message. My issue is with the execution.

One particular example, I have a stack of messages from the same forum notifier about the same forum message so they all have the same subject. Some of them get grouped together, some of them don’t. This in itself wouldn’t be a major issue if we had some way to group them back together, but since we don’t, it’s awful.

And I gather that even if they fix the problem now, it isn’t going to retroactively apply to older threads anyway.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:39:00 +0000

How would you rather it was done?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:33:00 +0000

The conversation view in Gmail is the most ridiculous and crappy way of doing things. Google not only wants to control the internet…it wants to control how we use it too. It’s frustrating. I have given up using Gmail (webmail version) and I only use it with POP3 and I have also adviced everyone to stop using it after they had enormous problems. Gmail webmail interface has already lost more than about 10 users from my side.

By: Pip

Pip — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:48:00 +0000

They should always float to the top though, and i don’t think that the same subject line is enough to trigger conversation grouping. sounds a little strange to me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:25:00 +0000

I am so annoyed with the ‘grouping’ into conversations that I have now stopped using Gmail! It is utterly useless and frustrating for receiving things like logs on a regular basis, which obviously make no sense to lump together in one bundle. I thought this would have been a pretty simply feature for Google to include.