This time the scythe is coming for one of the company’s oldest features—Gmail’s basic HTML view. In January 2024, that simple interface heads for the great beyond.

Google is discontinuing Gmail's Basic HTML view in January 2024, favoring the more feature-rich Standard view for all users. The Basic HTML view was popular for its streamlined and quicker ...

The discontinuation of Gmail’s basic HTML view is just the latest addition to Google’s ever-growing list of products, features, services, and more that have been admitted to the Google graveyard.

Google has quietly announced that it will pull the plug on the basic HTML version of Gmail starting in 2024. In an email to some users (as noted on HackerNews), Google confirmed that it would be ...