Ask HN: Do you still use email?

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by parhamn on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:52PM (#27292935)

How do you feel about matrix? I've heard it as a counter point to the point you made but never really looked into it.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by luke2m on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:53PM (#27292952)

Matrix is interesting, but could replace IRC or Discord, not email. It also doesn’t have many users, even with bridging, but pretty much everyone has an email account.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by tffgg on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:34PM (#27296983)

Someone is (supposed to) building a proper Email bridge for Matrix through GSOC.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by swiley on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:04PM (#27293128)

I've heard bad things from people running matrix servers.

IM is also not really a great replacement for email.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by 29083011397778 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:31PM (#27295715)

> I've heard bad things from people running matrix servers

Could you expand on this? I haven't actually noticed anything detrimental, and resource usage has actually been falling as the dev team makes improvements - though in fairness I'm running it on a beefy server that also hosts Plex, Polaris, and more.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by pmlnr on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @04:34PM (#27295746)

synapse is:

a, fragile, depends on a lot of external libs (eg. hazmat, which needs sslv3 compiles openssl)

b, eats a lof of resources when using medium size and above federated rooms

And there are no other servers ready for production.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use email? by tffgg on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @06:23PM (#27296860)

I have heard that Synapse is fragile the first time Can you expand?

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