You are not weird. More and more people think that Electron is bad
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I've spent the last two years building a new email client
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Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#362I don't think this puts enough emphasis on the fact that it is a local client and not a web service. I see some people here griping about Electron, but the privacy implications of being a local app are way more important than the performance of the framework used.
Seems to be a proprietary application so app privacy went out the window already.
You can audit the code of every Electron app, so why are you acting like it's full of spyware that you'll never be able to have privacy with?
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
> only around 300mb of RAM maximum For a email client that is still more than I ever would accept. Do you hold all conversations in the RAM for searchability or something?
How much RAM does your current mail client use?
28mb
But then it is mutt running inside a screen session in an xterm.
Screen is using 4m, and the largest xterm open is using 2.4m. So even adding in screen and xterm overhead that's still only 34.4mb.
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#364Electron = no thanks. I might as well use my provider’s web interface then.
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#365Can't wait to try out the Linux version!
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#366Can't wait to try out the Linux version!
Its made with Electron so my understanding is it should work on Windows/Linux/Mac out of the box!
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, I can read HTML e-mails just fine via mutt in an SSH session. One doesn't need Chrome or Firefox to read them.
Could you go into a little more detail about this setup?
Here is an example:
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#368Can't wait to try out the Linux version!
Its made with Electron so my understanding is it should work on Windows/Linux/Mac out of the box!
Electron? The obvious snarky comment has to then be "oh and it should manage to be slower than Thunderbird out of the box, too!"
I hope he's had better luck integrating spell check than the RamBox devs have ;)
edit: yes, I would love to test it and provide numbers rather than just snark - I just have to wait for the ~5,000 people ahead of me in the queue to have their software pressed to disk and posted to them before it's my turn o.0
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#369Can't wait to try out the Linux version!
Its made with Electron so my understanding is it should work on Windows/Linux/Mac out of the box!
Some stuff needs to be sorted out and adapted to Linux so it might take some time before it's out on Linux. However, a lot of users has requested a Linux version which makes this a priority
Re: I've spent the last two years building a new email client
#370I put my name on the waitlist, but instantly lost interest and confidence by:
“Jump forward 5 steps in the line for every person you invite and get beta access sooner.”
Why? If the product is that good I’ll evangelize it. This is a desktop application, so I don’t see a big boost from a network effect. All this does makes me wonder if the product is more about building hype than value