[wavefunction]

I don't know if you have multiple google accounts (I have personal gmail, personal analytics and some work related accounts).

Try this: Go to Google.com as a logged in user and try to "switch" to your new account. What was originally one click to logout and one click to bring up a un/pw now takes a ton of additional user interaction.

I'm no Jony Ive but whoever thought this was a good workflow needs to reconsider.

[chad_oliver]

I have two accounts: my personal account and a work account. Until a few minutes ago, I had never signed in to my work account from my home computer.

I tried to "switch" to my new account, as you described. It took about 10 seconds, which was the time it took to load a new page and type out my credentials. Furthermore, as soon as I did that, I could instantly switch between accounts with two clicks and without having to log out of either account. What's the problem?

[wavefunction]

My point is that the solution before was more elegant, since it was just a pop-up flow with single clicks to log out and log in. The whole rigmarole now is just the way all the Google apps feel to me now. Extra hoops to jump through, I guess I'd describe it as?

[chad_oliver]

Fair enough; I can see your point. I think the other side of the coin is that, once you've logged into all your accounts, it's much easier to switch back and forth between accounts.