There's a difference between making things easy and simple to use, and making things so simple they serve too limited a purpose to be useful.
Google is going in the wrong direction (well, it's not a direction, but anyway), which is a shame because it has so much potential but is wasting it.
Well, unless all that potential was just an illusion from the start. :/ *shrug*
I agree that it's wrong for you and me but for the average user I think it's probably right. Google's business is to cater primarily to those people.
But like I say, they should provide a classic/advanced interface to those who want it, the more 'advanced' users. After all, it's us who'll be the early adopters and evangelisers if something better comes along, so it's in their interests to keep hold of us too. c.google.com would be fine.
I had written a reply, but this stupid fucking android shit did it's crashing trick, and I'm too annoyed to write it again now. :@
It really annoyed me in Abu Dhabi when I wanted to go to Google.co.uk that I kept being sent onto the UAE Google.
When it crashes are you going back to edit text or just continuing typing?
Huh? Neither. It kills the browser entirely and sends me to home screen.
(Sometimes it wipes all cookies and I have to login again, but didn't get that this time.)
I've had plenty of crashes replying on here. If I'm just entering text it's fine but when I press on a part of the text to edit something it often crashes.
Oh, sorry, see what you were saying.
Yeah, I do notice it happens most when editing. However, I've also had it crash from thread list page (when going to press 'go' to refresh).
I think in this particular case I was just pressjng outside the text box to defocus, so I could scroll down and press post. I don't remember entirely clearly though, so could be mistaken.
It just did it AGAIN :@
Fortunately I had already copied my text, socould just repaste it.
(I was trying to focus on the end of the threadlist sentence, to decide if to point out there's nothing being edited there.)
If I had a trackball /or/ cursor keys I wouldn't have this stupid damned problem! :@
Have you tried a different browser? Is this the stock browser?