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Inbox being of life support was an open secret at Google for like a year now. If you're wondering what the functional replacement for bundles is, the answer is there isn't one. My manager keeps trying to sell me on this spreadsheet going around that's a miserable pile of app script meant to work around gmails lack of useful filters and sorting.
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we tried to get scholar to unblock an IP lol
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Sep 12, 2018 20:43
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what did inbox offer that gmail didnt? is gmail the service and inbox "outlook"?
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Sep 12, 2018 23:22
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it's a better email client imo
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Triglav posted:what did inbox offer that gmail didnt? well, it's sort of like a hip-hop email client
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Pham Nuwen posted:well, it's sort of like a hip-hop email client lol
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Sep 12, 2018 23:39
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i tried inbox once and it was googles bad ai making random wrong guesses about which emails i wanted to see. a+++
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Sep 12, 2018 23:43
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Triglav posted:what did inbox offer that gmail didnt? a shiny promotion for one of their engineers
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Sep 12, 2018 23:45
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also lol that google is using the iphone news hurricane to bury the bad news
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Sep 12, 2018 23:46
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Pham Nuwen posted:well, it's sort of like a hip-hop email client no diggity
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Sep 12, 2018 23:56
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The main best feature in Inbox is bundles, which are like the topic tabs in gmail except you have an unlimited number of them, they float in the inbox list with everything else, and you can configure them how you want based on labels and filters. It's a godsend if you get tons of broad blast email constantly that you might want to group by topic, glance over, but not hide and shitcan automatically. There's nothing like it that comes close in gmail. Worse, because they use the same backend (Inbox is basically an alternative UI for Gmail) once you have inbox setup just so, when you switch back to Gmail it's just complete and total chaos.
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Sep 12, 2018 23:57
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poty posted:i tried inbox once and it was googles bad ai making random wrong guesses about which emails i wanted to see. a+++ oh yeah, outlook/owa have this now too. it's called "focused inbox" and it's dogshit garbage that should never have gotten out of beta
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Sep 12, 2018 23:58
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focused inbox rules and works gr8
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Sep 12, 2018 23:58
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maybe if you're some kind of gibbering idiot who receives emails you don't want to see, but still want to have for some reason
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Sep 13, 2018 00:00
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man, if only there were some way my computer could decide not to show me emails that aren't junk. that'd be real loving useful, not seeing email people send to me, ostensibly for a reason
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Sep 13, 2018 00:01
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focused inbox filters out poo poo like company news letters and system notifications that I might care about at some point so I don't want to delete them, but I also don't want to read them.
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Sep 13, 2018 00:04
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basically focused inbox is emails from humans and other is emails from computers that aren't spam.
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Sep 13, 2018 00:05
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so they invented another spam filter, but one that also might flag poo poo that i need to see, on account of i haven't already blocked it as spam
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Sep 13, 2018 00:13
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its not a spam filter cause its legitimate email
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Sep 13, 2018 00:23
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my secret email power move is to filter out any message with "unsubscribe" in it send all of those to a junk folder, glance through it once a week to see if there were any false positives (about 1 per month), delete the rest amazingly effective
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Sep 13, 2018 00:25
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Sagebrush posted:my secret email power move is to filter out any message with "unsubscribe" in it 
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Sep 13, 2018 01:20
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mrmcd posted:The main best feature in Inbox is bundles, which are like the topic tabs in gmail except you have an unlimited number of them, they float in the inbox list with everything else, and you can configure them how you want based on labels and filters. so its outlook rules by google
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Sep 13, 2018 01:24
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Sagebrush posted:my secret email power move is to filter out any message with "unsubscribe" in it i may use this thx
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Sep 13, 2018 01:45
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graph posted:we tried to get scholar to unblock an IP how the hell do you even get blocked from google scholar? im sure i dont actually dont want to know, but wtf
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Sep 13, 2018 01:49
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maybe mass downloading/indexing like that one guy who offed himself did with that other service
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Sep 13, 2018 01:52
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Sagebrush posted:my secret email power move is to filter out any message with "unsubscribe" in it i did this and it caught a couple github notifications before i fixed it so be careful!!
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Sep 13, 2018 01:53
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infernal machines posted:maybe if you're some kind of gibbering idiot who receives emails you don't want to see, but still want to have for some reason i'm more of a lazy rear end in a top hat than a gibbering idiot
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Sep 13, 2018 03:23
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Last Chance posted:maybe mass downloading/indexing like that one guy who offed himself did with that other service yeah, just scraping it for information can lock you out if there’s too many requests too quick. noticed the python tools I was using to do so had built in timers to deal with this when I was trying to make knowledge networks following citations
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Sep 13, 2018 03:56
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bundles never made any loving sense as a concept and I'm glad Inbox died rather than poison Gmail proper I think rjmccall explained bundles years ago when Inbox was introduced as a non-feature for Google employees that get tons of pointless monitoring status mail that they never read
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Sep 13, 2018 04:32
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This thread got me to re-install Inbox. It must have improved because it's less-bad than when I played around with it a couple of years ago (?). Welp, that's my story, thanks for listening! 
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Sep 13, 2018 04:34
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Schadenboner posted:This thread got me to re-install Inbox. It must have improved because it's less-bad than when I played around with it a couple of years ago (?). it got me to clean my inbox but every ui is awful so i resorted to thunderbird with a ux right from the mid 2000s and it was good and fast and made the google ui look embarrassing
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Sep 13, 2018 04:57
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i have 2700 unread emails in my inbox and that's after cleaning it down to 0 about a year ago. i should try doing thunderbird again and get more zealous about unsubscribing from bullshit
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Sep 13, 2018 05:12
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mrmcd posted:The main best feature in Inbox is bundles, which are like the topic tabs in gmail except you have an unlimited number of them, they float in the inbox list with everything else, and you can configure them how you want based on labels and filters. so the use case is: tech workers at extremely large corporations that use gmail. yeah okay i can see why this got killed.
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Sep 13, 2018 05:42
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(it's because it didn't bring in any ad revenue)
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Sep 13, 2018 05:42
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that’s clearly a necessary but not sufficient condition for a product to be killed
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Sep 13, 2018 05:44
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hobbesmaster posted:that’s clearly a necessary but not sufficient condition for a product to be killed
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Sep 13, 2018 05:47
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nah. there are google products that bring in ad revenue and there are google products that are going to be axed.
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Sep 13, 2018 05:49
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forward all monitoring mails that dont include "error" or "failure" to the trash actually just send them all there. you'll find out about poo poo that matters from someone else
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Sep 13, 2018 08:15
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Pham Nuwen posted:i have 2700 unread emails in my inbox and that's after cleaning it down to 0 about a year ago. are you my mom
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my inbox has 6 read emails that are there because im not done dealing with them
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