Gmail displays long messages better than e.g. Signal, even on my laptop. And I often do find the same email feels longer when I read it on my phone than my laptop.
Hm. Do you think this is due to readability or norms? I’d say I’m roughly 80% confident it’s norms.
Gmail also makes it easy to track long messages I want to delay responses to. Texts feel much more “respond RIGHT NOW or forget about it forever”
I also suspect that this is due to norms rather than functionality. For example, Gmail (and other mail clients) let you mark things as unread and organize them in folders. However, it seems easy enough to scroll through your text messages (or Signal, or WhatsApp...), see if you were the last person to respond or not, if not whether their last message feels like the end to the conversation.
I think it’s at least partially readability. Signal won’t give a given line more than half my screen, where gmail will go up to 80% (slack and discord are similar). I don’t use the FB messenger app, but the webapp won’t give a line more than half the width of the screen.
However, it seems easy enough to scroll through your text messages (or Signal, or WhatsApp...), see if you were the last person to respond or not, if not whether their last message feels like the end to the conversation.
I think this is way more work than looking at “what’s still in my inbox?”, and rapidly becomes untenable as the number of messages or delay in responding increases.
Hm. Do you think this is due to readability or norms? I’d say I’m roughly 80% confident it’s norms.
I also suspect that this is due to norms rather than functionality. For example, Gmail (and other mail clients) let you mark things as unread and organize them in folders. However, it seems easy enough to scroll through your text messages (or Signal, or WhatsApp...), see if you were the last person to respond or not, if not whether their last message feels like the end to the conversation.
What do you think?
I think it’s at least partially readability. Signal won’t give a given line more than half my screen, where gmail will go up to 80% (slack and discord are similar). I don’t use the FB messenger app, but the webapp won’t give a line more than half the width of the screen.
I think this is way more work than looking at “what’s still in my inbox?”, and rapidly becomes untenable as the number of messages or delay in responding increases.