Google has acknowledged that one of its April Fools jokes backfired when it started causing genuine embarrassment to some Gmail users. It has now pulled the joke feature.
Google added a ‘send + mic drop’ button final night,that added a GIF of a Minion dropping a microphone to an email reply, before archiving the thread. It was intended as a fun way for users to express their desire to exit an email conversation, or but the company made one schoolboy UI error: it put the joke button true where the usual ‘send and archive’ one sits … more…
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Source: 9to5google.com