Ask HN: why is chat history in Gmail lazy-loaded now?
I once was able to use my browser's find tool to identify a line from a chat. Then Gmail introduced lazy-loading to chat history, and that became harder; my workaround was to click Print and then use find. But Gmail just recently did away with the print button, and I can't even do that.
Gmail team: the UX is worse; users are loading _text_, and usually not much, so why lazy-load every few lines? I understand I represent an outside use case, but I don't see that the new chat history is more inclusive in the use cases it addresses. Like you said, you represent an outside case. Those bytes matter when you are dealing with the userbase GMail has. I find that extremely hard to believe.... Attachments? Google Drive? And why not lazy-load long emails?