Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving

Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by guenthert on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @11:38AM (#32580830)

There is just no single universally and actually used IM ecosystem and with the expression of unchecked capitalism Web 2.0 has become (see what happened to XMPP), there is no chance there will be one. Besides that the asynchronous nature of e-mail is a highly desirable feature for everyone who has actually things to do.

e-mail is here to stay.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by aendruk on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:19PM (#32582649)

> the asynchronous nature of e-mail is a highly desirable feature

This is a good point and makes me wonder whether e.g. Matrix should incorporate something like a “prefers async” field that could be used by clients to treat messages more like mail.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by Arathorn on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @02:14PM (#32583529)

This is an excellent idea - on a per-conversation granularity at least you could declare whether the intent of the conversation is sync or async, distinguishing IM from mail or forums.

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Re:Email doesn't suck – it's email clients that need improving by hammyhavoc on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @12:12PM (#32581448)

60m publicly addressable users on Matrix protocol, not even including EU gov, healthcare, military, emergency services.

Nobody is saying email is going anywhere.

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