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samset7

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    Comment #47520558

    The switch was surprisingly smooth. I think there's an official migration guide in the doc. Honestly the API is closer to the classic requests library so nobody will be lost.

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    Comment #47520456

    The main pain points for us were: thread-safety issues (httpx claims to be thread-safe but we hit race conditions in production), no HTTP/3 support, and the redirect behavior requi…

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    Comment #47516383

    We have switched to niquests in my company and yes I can confirm that it's 10x better than httpx :)

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    Show HN: Happymail – Make email great again

    Eight years ago, I was job hunting and felt embarrassed by my Gmail address. I tried registering firstname.lastname — taken everywhere. So I thought: "I'm in IT, I'll set up my own…

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    Comment #46454652

    Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, grenran. You're right that domain ownership is the gold standard for digital sovereignty. We considered it, but realized it creates the exact co…

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    Show HN: Happymail – We made email simple again

    Eight years ago, I was job hunting and felt embarrassed by my Gmail address. I tried registering firstname.lastname — taken everywhere. So I thought: "I'm in IT, I'll set up my own…

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