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Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by thismodernlife »

laurent92 wrote: post #27
thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I confirm, excellent email provider. I won’t comment on privacy since they are based in Australia which doesn’t have freedom of speech and has blanket surveillance laws. But at least it’s not Gmail, so it is safer to conduct business where Google could be competitor.

Yes the Australia thing is unfortunate for them but I imagine this may change over time with a new administration.

I’m not too bothered by it, it’s email and I’m more concerned about high quality product, availability, stability and them not selling my data or using it for ads.

If I wanted to send something truly private by email I’d just use GPG :-)

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Post by ashtonbaker »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I'm also very happy with the product - I'll add that their iOS integration for email/calendar/contacts works as almost a seamless replacement for syncing to an iCloud account, which I found really delightful.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by leokennis »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

Also a very happy customer. Their mail product is top notch, but so is their calendar. And everything (mail, calendar, notes, storage, contacts) is fast and accessible using standard protocols.

Only thing I still miss is a web interface for managing tasks/to-do’s.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by telesilla »

pavlov wrote: post #30

Fastmail's web UI has a really annoying bug on macOS Safari where it locks up the browser tab burning 100% CPU, and the only way out is to close the tab. Happens to me roughly every two days. I wish I had some steps to reproduce it, but it just comes up randomly when clicking on messages. I like the web UI, but if a desktop mail client crashed this often, I'd have deleted it long ago and switched to a different progr…

>Happens to me roughly every two days

If I were their dev I'd suggest first, use another browser for your sanity and second, get in touch with the support team to see if you can help improve it!

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by LeoPanthera »

burnthrow wrote: post #14
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

Haven't noticed yet. I want to say most Fastmail incidents come and go without me noticing, apart from their tweets about them.

My experience was that Fastmail has regular hiccups, they just don't make the news. I left for Google Apps years ago mostly for that reason.

Been a customer for over a decade. Can count the number of outages I've actually noticed on one hand, and they've all been very minor.

I'm surprised that anyone who thought Fastmail was a good choice would even consider Google as an alternative.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by armitage »

I left Fastmail for Gmail a couple of years ago because their spam filters weren't very good. I like Gmail's inbox filtering as well (priority, marketing, social, etc.)

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by diarrhea »

hs86 wrote: post #13

Just this week, I uninstalled all my desktop mail clients: no more Thunderbird, MailMate, or eM Client. Fastmail's web app feels faster, uses fewer resources, and has the same UI on all of my computers. Instead of redirecting all other accounts into Fastmail, it has a simple UI to setup fetching-from and sending-as from other mail providers, and with using my own domain, it does not feel like a lock-in.

This just isn't feasible for me from a usability perspective. Private email is with Fastmail, but work email is something else entirely. Both have good webmails, but vastly different UX. By using Thunderbird I can get the same UI/UX for all the different email providers. If I only had Fastmail, I'd also be OK with just using their webmail, it's excellent.

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Post by amelius »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I was just looking at their "about us" page, and it seems their technical staff consists of only 3 people, which I think is quite impressive.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by thismodernlife »

leokennis wrote: post #33
thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

Also a very happy customer. Their mail product is top notch, but so is their calendar. And everything (mail, calendar, notes, storage, contacts) is fast and accessible using standard protocols. Only thing I still miss is a web interface for managing tasks/to-do’s.

The notes product could do with a bit of love I think.

A todo feature is an interesting idea.

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