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Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
"Mailpile is a modern web-mail you run on your own computer." I think this sentence should be the first thing anyone sees when they go to the page. The text at the moment assumes everyone already knows roughly what Mailpile is, so I didn't figure it out until I read HN comments. Also, are there screenshots somewhere?
Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
I'm in the crowdfunding business, so I feel strange saying this, but I'm really turned off by this model of 'pay us in advance for developing a product that hasn't been market tested or validated,' especially when asking for a sum as large as is $100,000. What happened to building something and selling it? According to the campaign page, the need is so great because: "We're asking for a lot of money, so of course you…
Bjarni here, lead dev. Happy to answer any questions.
Why AGPL rather than a more liberal license like BSD or MIT? Edit: Just to clarify why I'm asking this, the project looks very interesting and I suppose the choice of AGPL wasn't made lightly, as it might slow down adoption by commercial organizations, so I'm interested in the reasoning behind this choice.
However, we are open to discussing, and if a significant fraction of our backers would prefer a more liberal license we will probably switch.
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That's fantastic. I didn't see any information about this on your page so you might want to make this clearer (I assure you I read it first before commenting, then went back and saw the Fork on Github ribbon, the only indication). By subscription I mean that I am happy to support an open source project with regular funding. Initial funds from Indiegogo are not sufficient to maintain a long-term service and we'd be he…
there's a big red line across the top right corner pointing to github (and licencing info there). there's another link to github near the end. apologies for a previous post that used strong language, but you really can't have looked very hard. (you know, i just read chapter 2 of 'how to win friends and influence people' which tells me that criticising people never works because they simply work harder to justify them…
If I do Ctrl+F for "open source", the only result I get is that your designer enjoys contributing to open source projects.
You should consider explicitly mentioning open source somewhere in the main content, how about in the Self Hosted section? Congratulations on the awesome project by the way.
I'm in the crowdfunding business, so I feel strange saying this, but I'm really turned off by this model of 'pay us in advance for developing a product that hasn't been market tested or validated,' especially when asking for a sum as large as is $100,000. What happened to building something and selling it? According to the campaign page, the need is so great because: "We're asking for a lot of money, so of course you…
Two things: 1. IMO sup ( http://supmua.org/ ) is more mature and does about the same. However it's interface is a curses based one which is a plus and a minus. 2. Why not use an existing search products (like xapian)?
Mostly, the reason we do things the way we do, is because one of our primary goals is to make an end-user desktop app. Packaging is therefore a significant task and minimizing dependencies will help a lot.
We still have quite a bit of work to do on our website and message.
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It is a custom search engine, written in Python. It works surprisingly well, most queries are answered under 200ms and tens of milliseconds are common once caches are warm.
any plans for a solr support? there's a lot of knowledge out there on how to scale solr for large webmail deployments like i.e. inside a large company or for forensic mail analysis.
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It is a custom search engine, written in Python. It works surprisingly well, most queries are answered under 200ms and tens of milliseconds are common once caches are warm.
any plans for a solr support? there's a lot of knowledge out there on how to scale solr for large webmail deployments like i.e. inside a large company or for forensic mail analysis.