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by bubalus 3856 days ago
I tried Inbox for about month, but I ended up turning it off.

It was slower than the standard gmail interface, both on my computer and my phone. There was a noticeable lag when trying to open each email.

Additionally, on the Android app, they inexplicably removed the ability to swipe left/right in order to move from one email thread to the next. Instead, they implemented a vertical swipe which returns the user to the inbox. So the pattern for reading a series of emails is swipe-tap-swipe-tap-swipe-tap instead of a series of swipes. Additionally the swipe only triggers if I drag my thumb vertically over about 90% of my phone screen, which is very uncomfortable.

Why mess with what works?