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  Evon (@_evon3929) reported 2 minutes ago

  1. What Gmail's defaults are actually optimized for Gmail is free, and free means the defaults are built for the broadest possible audience doing the simplest possible thing — check inbox, read, reply, done. Nothing about the default setup expects eleven years of accumulation, aggressive marketing emails, or an inbox that's become the de facto filing cabinet for someone's entire financial and professional life. So everything lands in one pile unless you tell it not to. Storage silently fills because cleanup isn't automatic. Search works fine for last week's email and struggles the moment there are 40,000 of them. None of this is broken — it's just tuned for a mailbox six months old, not eleven years deep.

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  Alan (@bitforth) reported 6 minutes ago

  @GergelyOrosz I am not surprised because I happen to have friends there. Google also uses them, Facebook names them differently but it's essentially the same thing. Especially in RL, the FANG documents, and so do most large tech companies. I would even challenge your claim that PRDs decide what should be built. In most companies, the core decision already exists before anyone opens the document either because a big customer problem has escalated, or an executive has set a priority, or sales demand a feature, a competitor has moved, or a small group has already agreed on the direction. A PRD RARELY creates that decision. They're mostly artifacts that large organizations require to make work visible to people who are not in the room where product decisions happen. You worked at Uber. You should know this better than most... the actual decision gets made in a meeting, a Slack thread, or a conversation between a few senior people. THEN the PRD is written just to formalize the decision, gather approvals, assign ownership, and create evidence of cross-functional collaboration. During calibration, that artifact becomes proof that someone “drove alignment” across six teams. The strongest case for a PRD is pretty much to stop people from building 6 different interpretations of the same idea, but then again... Google uses them aggressively and it is almost the perfect counterexample. It launched Allo and Duo while Hangouts already existed. It later killed Allo, split Hangouts into Chat and Meet, and eventually folded Duo into Meet. It ran Inbox beside Gmail for four years, then shut Inbox down and moved parts of it into Gmail. It acquired Waze in 2013, explicitly kept its product team separate, and still develops both Waze and Google Maps as overlapping navigation products more than a decade later. I am 100% SURE all of those teams had detailed PRDs. In fact, a polished PRD can make duplication worse. It gives every team a coherent narrative, supporting metrics, a roadmap, and a professional-looking artifact with which to defend its territory.

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  Ryan J. Shaw (@RyanJamesShaw) reported 7 minutes ago

  Week 3 of building a local newsletter: - sent my 3rd issue out to 59 subscribers (up by 28 since previous issue, a 90% week-on-week growth rate!) - open rate is 44% after 10 hours, which I think is pretty decent - 1 person unsubscribed 🥺 - I made it look way nicer, I think - current distribution strategy is sharing on WhatsApp groups, asking friends to do the same, and talking about it with everyone I meet (only 1 person was dismissive!) - word-of-mouth is unpredictable and I'm getting nervous that the newsletter won't grow over the next week - so I'm considering printing business cards/A3 flyers with a QR code and leaving it at local hotels; might also do FB/IG ads, but more out of curiosity to understand the CAC so I sympathize with my future partners - my pain points remain sifting through the volume of posts, and editing it down to <= 95KB so gmail doesn't clip; I have a plan for both of these

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  Chief Shitting Bull (@seacheo) reported 8 minutes ago

  @wooknponub Interesting... I assumed it was a gmail problem because gmail likes to use AI to summarize emails now... be funny when AI starts summarizing AI summaries and just ***** everything completely up

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  Oblivion (@Obli98) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Macblack_91 @UniverseIce If they stole the phone and have it factory reset, they will need to login the cotrect registered gmail account from the phone to be able to use it which is impossible.

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  TalentlessMedia (@TalentlessMedia) reported 9 minutes ago

  @gmail Hi. Is there an issue of Gmail screen just white and blank? My phone suddenly just has a white screen when I click on it. Also, I can't send email from my phone. I I try to attach a photo and email, it just sits and has a white and blue box. Turned off/on phone, etc.

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  Krishna Singh (@krishnasinghdev) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Google I've reached a point where I genuinely don't trust Gmail's account recovery system anymore. Why does Gmail sometimes keep sending verification codes to the very email account I'm locked out of, instead of offering the option to receive an OTP on my verified phone number? Other times, it asks me to verify using a device I stopped using years ago, with no practical alternative. The most frustrating part is the lack of a way to contact a real support team. There seems to be no process where you can submit proof that you're the legitimate owner of the account—whether it's identity documents, recovery information, or any other evidence. For many of us, a Gmail account isn't just an email address. It's connected to years of personal memories, important documents, banking, work accounts, photos, and countless other services. Losing access can feel like losing a part of your digital life. I understand that strong security is important, but a recovery system should also be practical for legitimate account owners. Right now, it feels like the system can lock out the real owner while offering no meaningful way to resolve the issue. Has anyone else experienced this? Were you eventually able to recover your account, or did you lose access permanently? I'd really like to hear other people's stories and what worked for them.

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  Labrador_Dad (@DM_Se7en) reported 18 minutes ago

  @gmail Just really make the app better and for crying out load. Fix the search!

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  MACIEL (@maciel7126) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TikTokSupport Locked out of my account. Only issue is 2FA — I still have full access to the linked Gmail and can prove ownership (TikTok emails from 2020/2021), but the SMS goes to an old number I no longer have. Submitted multiple tickets, only auto-replies so far.

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  ClioBitcoinBank 🏴‍☠️ (@ClioBitcoinBank) reported 25 minutes ago

  @ScarcityMan They also need incentive structures or they cease to operate as intended. Gmail was abused to do data storage way back in 2005 and guess what? They never fixed it, google tried and failed to defeat the information theory/open field problem. If you can fix it: instant nobel prize.

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  Kefayatullah Khadem (@kefayatkhadim) reported 34 minutes ago

  @ClipX0_ Clean setup, using a form to collect Gmails then sending invites is a tidy way to manage the list. Good luck shipping ClipX. One thing worth reinforcing to people who fill out the form: submitting their Gmail is step one, but they still have to actually opt in through the test invite link once they get it and keep the app installed the full 14 days to register as active toward production. Grab more than 12 as a buffer since dropping below 12 active can effectively restart the clock. And if the form route gets patchy on holding people through the full window, Prime Test Lab handles the tester side so you can lock in the 14 days without chasing anyone down.

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  lesdoesart (@DrawsLes78493) reported 36 minutes ago

  is the identity verification tumblr a scam? Idk if it's real or scam. I have email sent me (twice) about if it's not me and it is me, l always use the website. I later press the restart password because l never created one and only login in my gmail

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  Chris & Nolan (@chrisnolansf) reported 37 minutes ago

  Real examples: Sales exec: connect Salesforce + Gmail. Fig instantly synthesizes account history and drafts perfectly tailored client updates. E-commerce owner: connect Shopify + Stripe. Fig monitors sales trends and flags inventory drops before they become a problem. Dev team: load code-review, front-end-design, and cloud-best-practices packages. Fig learns your exact styling and guidelines. Legal pro: add the specialized legal package. Fig becomes an expert on NDAs and vendor contract negotiations.

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  Subscribr (@SubscribrAI) reported 38 minutes ago

  If I was FORCED to build a YouTube channel from $0 to $5,000 a month in 30 days, no face, no camera, no team, here is exactly what I would do. Days 1 to 4. Pick the niche on math, never on passion. Audience 35 to 65 in US, UK, Canada, Australia. RPM $15 to $45 per thousand views. Evergreen topics with no expiry. The 5 niches printing right now: Depression era DIY, Native American elder health, off grid conspiracy energy, senior friendly gardening, vintage collectible appraisal. Skip anything where the top 20 channels all have 1 million subs and studio budgets. Skip AI doctor and AI financial advisor niches. YouTube is actively demonetizing those. Days 1 to 7 in parallel. Warm up the aged Gmail. Buy 3 aged accounts. 3 to 5 years old minimum. Login through a residential proxy. Watch 2 to 3 videos in the target niche on day 1. 4 to 6 videos per day from days 2 to 5. Subscribe to 10 to 15 channels max. Leave real comments. Do not overdo it. YouTube flags overactive new accounts as bots. Days 4 to 7. Build the outlier file. Open 15 small channels in the niche under 20,000 subs. Sort each by most popular. Screenshot every video doing 3x above that channel's average. 20 screenshots equals 20 topics with proven demand. I am not brainstorming. I am reading the answer key. Day 8. First upload. Proven topic times proven title format. Script structured as a story with setup, tension, resolution. Not a listicle. Lists let viewers leave at minute 4. Stories force them to the end. Same title formula every video. Warning plus specific number. "STOP paying X." "Never do Y." "The 7 Greatest X." Production. Subscribr for the script. AI character or faceless voiceover. B-roll from free libraries. CapCut for editing. Under $7 per finished video. Days 8 to 20. Ship 1 video every 2 days. 6 uploads in 12 days. Read impressions at 48 hours. Above 500 means the account is alive. Day 20. Read the data. 1 to 2 videos will be outliers. Higher CTR. Higher retention. That is the platform telling me exactly what this channel is. Kill the format on the underperformers. Make 4 more of the outlier. Days 20 to 30. Attach revenue from video 1. $47 ebook in every description. 100,000 monthly views in a $20 RPM niche equals $2,000 in AdSense. A $47 ebook converting 0.3% of viewers equals 300 sales equals $14,100. Combined: over $5,000 easily inside 30 days if the outlier hits. The whole system runs on 3 aged Gmails, 1 outlier file, 1 title formula, and 1 ebook. 99% of you will bookmark this and do nothing. Which is exactly why it keeps working for the people who run it.

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  Super G (@Sum708090100) reported 39 minutes ago

  @okolie_jer38669 I had to buy 1 and YouTube blocked it 2 month later laSt week due to gmail issues