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I completely agree on the feelings map. It isn't something that you could rely on and take meaningful actions from the data.

However, it is useful to consider the fact that people's experience and comfort isn't linearly increasing with time. Understanding that there are peaks and troughs can be useful for user experience design.

Thanks @Belphemur. Modular is a good way of putting it. Being modular allows users to add complexity at their own pace and never be overwhelmed by it.

You're right. It is unusual. We went with Exchange Web Services first instead of IMAP. Our initial target market were larger companies and we wanted to have deep integration with their Exchange servers (Calendars, Contacts, etc).

I contacted the mods about this but haven't heard back. I'm not exactly sure what happened. Maybe some people didn't like the content of the article and decided to flag it? I didn't think flagging could be used as a downvote mechanism.

Interesting. Do you mind if I ask what software (or category) have you bought if you don't trust proprietary software?

That is true but at a lot of people do use outlook.com / hotmail.com for their personal email.

Those are effectively Exchange accounts (MS finished migrating them to Exchange last year). So Hiri works with those too.

I would absolutely love a linux version of Sketch. Can't see it happening though.

Yup, from a personal perspective I agree. I don't like to cross the streams either but a lot of people do.

Aww man :(

Thanks for pointing that out.

Please use https://www.hiri.com instead.

The intention of the article was in no an attack on the "FOSS mentality".

FOSS is a reality and is a great thing!

The point that was being made, was that promoting paid linux applications is a challenge. And that that challenge becomes more difficult because we need to operate in an environment where many of the biggest publications do not want to know anything about non-FOSS apps.

I do agree that the Outlook web app is good and is getting better all the time. Personally though (and I think a lot of people would agree), I like to have a standalone email client that doesn't constantly get lost in tab clutter.

That is exactly the reason for Gmail support.

It's not moving focus away from Linux/Office365 but it accommodates people that want to have their Gmail accounts in the same client as their Office 365 / Exchange accounts.

That's a very good point. This tool is purely focused at people who use Linux at work, the dynamics are very different. The article should probably mention something about that.

A lot of people can use Hiri because runs on Windows and Mac too.

Out of interest, what linux apps have you paid for?

Yup. Lesson learned on that one alright. It was a mistake.