Did everyone get forced to the new Gmail design today?

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Subject says it all. Was this the final day for everyone? I just refreshed and the new horrible design is now the default and it seems like it's not possible to change it.Does anyone know if:1) There's any possible way to get back the old designand/or2) there's a great browser extension that lets you get back or otherwise has a more uncluttered look that uses the space better

readonthegoapp · Accepted Answer

something did seem different, and better-ish maybe, except for the 'main bar' that can collapse/expand from the left -- the one with 'Compose / Inbox / Starred / Snooze' -- was a bit too wide -- has all this dead space off to the right of the labels, so my email subjects were harshly abbreviated.
I tried to slide the nav bar back to the left to narrow it, but no bueno, so i look for and find this extension called Gmail Side Bar Resize or something like that -- it works, but it also seems to steal my email address and sign me up for a newletter and put some widgets in my gmail UI and try to force me to sign up for some account, and generally slows gmail down on top of all that -- so i uninstalled that and reported abuse -- if it wasn't abuse, it sure as hell felt like it.
so i guess, 'yes', i glot slammed over today. it seems i might have to learn to live with a collapsed navbar, as the div that i want to narrow doesn't seem to have a predictable ID, dev would be too painful for me, etc.

matheist · Answer

I made a thing to fix it: https://github.com/nuchi/gmail-inbox-high-contrast-restorati... (it's a uBlock Origin filter list)

mdwalters · Answer

huh, didn't seem that it changed for me