Account friction

You can be a little silly in alternative text but only as long as you actually fulfil the intended purpose, which is to provide an alternative way to access the actual content! (Signed, an accessibility person)

It's a safety measure to stop people accidentally walking into the wall if the program fails or otherwise ends unexpectedly.

That inescapable bullshit pissed me off enough that one day last month I just decided I’d rather pay for (a different) email service. 20 years of Gmail without even considering other options and then *poof* I’m gone.

I actually like Gmail (and the other stuff), but yeah, it's just a family thing, would love to just downgrade to something that's free/cheaper. Been meaning to call Workspace support to try and figure this out, but knowing how useless people there can be, have not had the nerve for it

i have replaced “spend 30 minutes frustratedly browsing help forums” with “spend 30 minutes repeatedly sending emails until the underling gets the job done right” i don’t think i win in this exchange

I have one of these too. It worked last time I tested it (many years ago).

Are we 110% they don't have preinstalled pop-up types? I cannot remember the words, I'm sleep deprived for epilepsy study.

"G Suite free tier plan was auto-transitioned to Google Workspace Business Starter." according to support representative. "the free tier subscriptions are no longer available. The enter level subscription is Business Starter, which is your current subscription for Google Workspace."

[re: another one of those fucking colour games] my display is dirty as shit so clearly this isn't strict enough; also said i went below the "theoretical human limit" when OP got 0.0028 so everything is flavour text

the thing is, this has never ever happened before, other than the last 3 emails, which have been long but are about as long as they always have been. I am not getting any substantive answers, and while it came back up it did so without any explanation. utterly demoralizing

This 18-factor authentication is getting out of hand!

I had to reset a password to pay a bill. TWELVE CHARACTERS for their password requirements. No wonder I cant remember passwords anymore. Someone remind me to just mail a check. This is getting ridiculous.

Yes, I'm the odd person out here. I'm not on Query Tracker, and have always had my gmail for subs. I'm there, not moving yet, but it may change in the future. There's just so much spoofing. I'm sorry for the confusion. I'm a year in at Aevitas and processes are still getting sorted.

I think it becomes Efficient for trouble shooting

what kind of cc work? if it's repetitive data entry or formatting stuff, there might be a dead simple fix that takes 10 mins to set up but saves you hours. curious what the typing bottleneck is

You could phone in tech support to Molly White? But I’ll say, even as a nerd who likes to do things myself, offloading a headache tends to be money well spent. *Especially* when it comes to email.

It 100% is better, especially doing it with 4 screens at once

If it's been too long. Take on a competing product. If you really want the jerks to squirm, let them know you've left, why you left, and who's getting your money instead.

iirc you can remove it from your displayed feed without removing the collab if that's preferred! ive done that before

I have yet to try it out, but the opportunity just hasn't arisen yet. I've always wondered; is there any lag or is it pretty smooth?

My cousin successfully did it recently. I could recycle her documents if I asked her to share.

(yes, i know there are free alternatives. no, i don't think they can stay afloat long-term without a monetization plan. no, i don't want to put in a bunch of effort into making them all move on to the same platform. i have and use other channels but discord still remains Where Everyone Is—for now.)

с ноута кстати когда подтверждение о возрасте вылазит, можно просто перезагрузить страницу. а когда с телефона надо подтверждать... я сегодня уже дважды подтверждал

People seem to dislike this Michaelsoft Teams guy. Let's kill him

Iirc it was just a matter of attempting to log in and then clicking on the reset button when it rejected me? I had to provide the old email address and then type in the new email address + a short explanation. Probably helped that the old address and new address were the same except for the domain.

not to be too harsh, but it comes off as a11y for thee but not for me

"please complete the intro evaluation :)" it has not been available to me this entire time. "here's a video, please complete the intro evaluation" this video is for a version of this site that does not exist anymore. "please comp" IT'S STILL NOT AVAILABLE. "here is the intro evaluation" fucking. ok

Hell yeah, we're bringing kaomojis back! ( =＾ω＾)

This was the exact tone of the mandatory training we received at work via the university's competency centre, 'this is going to change everything, except it isn't actually very good so you have to check what it does and be careful using it, but you can't opt out because it is here now forever' no!

Because it’s easier, not that it’s time-saving in real terms?

在官网花钱还被封，你吗的

That all sounds pretty good. The only part I think is debatable is “Spam can be added to other areas of a transaction with very little loss.”

Dog the guy I work directly under called me twice in one day to ask me how to use the search bar in his own email inbox

Support ticket? What support ticket? There's not even an email address. 🤡

Downgrade! Why would anyone think smaller text is a good idea on a departure board? I used to be able to read it from a distance but not anymore!

Meanwhile they've completely abandoned any email servers that don't align with their rigid view of life. My school's imap login username isn't my full email address, so I can't login at all. I can change the OUTGOING username, but not to read the mail. What the hell?

Yeah now that you mention the background colors I can see why that’d be a problem

👍 love to hear more To be fair - I typically and very deliberately avoid news about the site. So I am playing some catchup. But if this is a technical convo I am also all ears

It drives me nuts that they are all switching to requiring one time codes sent to your email instead of passwords

I mean that's fair but I'm specifically talking about the website itself. This applies to both the mobile app and desktop site

Only the username domain name is. The service is open to all.

yeah it'd be nice if they at least had the option so you could turn it off if you dont want all that

Hey I have a question Mara, what is the username and login of the machine you're running on?

yeah ... i hate how many basic qol features we're missing here that are so necessary ... esp for a website that's so focused on the idea of "tailoring your social media experience"

it's so overwhelming... stuff like blue deck have the ability to turn off reposts for specific people but on mobile i've had to just turn off reposts on my following feed entirely

No, desafortunadamente no lo eres. Estamos intentando solucionarlo. En las próximas 24-48 horas estará arreglado. De momento, la única solución es intentarlo una y otra vez hasta que te permita entrar. Sentimos las molestias.

TBF, turning it off will make it less vulnerable.

I am totally fine with limited social features, honestly. So I guess I could lice with that

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Gmail will have to go. Thanks.