[ptx]

Periodically tearing down the entire UI while the user is in the middle of using it is a terrible user experience.

[TomGullen]

That’s not how it was usually implemented though, you’d have frameless iframes that refreshed - eg for chat rooms etc

[ptx]

Did it preserve the scroll position when refreshing? If so, that might be OK for a chat room. But an email inbox is more interactive, so I think it would be jarring to have that refresh as you're poking at it.