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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by kemiller on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:30PM (#16979207)
What deeper consequences are those?
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by loceng on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:34PM (#16983166)
A portion of people find that kind of tactic/trick to be manipulative, cause discomfort, which will add friction to adoption - why do that to anyone who might become an early adopter when you can avoid it? In another reply I go in a little more detail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16978849
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