Gmail's New Feature Suggestion Form
Gmail now has a suggestion form, where you indicate your top 5 features you wish Gmail had, so the development team knows what they have to do. However, it is in many cases not a suggestion box, leaving out many features users wish they had (like importing mail from other systems, POP3 access, virus scanning) while including others (delete more than 100 messages at a time, Opera support) but mostly just ways to change the design of Gmail, rather than adding to it (customizing colors, deleting emails with a single click). Google should realize that thay should concentrate on adding as many new features as possible, not adding complexity to the interface. Here's my top 5:

• Create unique nicknames for my contacts

• Create mailing lists for my contacts

• Delete more than 100 messages at a time

• Control whether people I send mail to are added to Contacts

• See the number of new spam messages from my inbox

(via Google Blogoscoped)
- posted by Nathan Weinberg @ 8/22/2004 10:59:00 AM