cool. small peeve though, the side panel refreshes via fade-in every time i nav anywhere, if you're redrawing the whole thing, at least disable the fade-in so it's less distracting.
Designer here. Great feedback- will work on this soon ;)
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#12Huge +: It works without Javascript! Moderate -: It is not responsive, on a small screen the HUGE sidebar and top header leave no space for the message. edit: Actually threaded message threads do not work without JS. All messages are collapsed. With JS enabled I seem to have to click on each message to expand it which is terrible UI.
Designer here. The responsiveness is being worked on (alpha release).
Curious about the clicking to expand msgs comment- this standard UI behavior in Gmail as well!
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#13This looks pretty nice, especially compared to the open source alternatives. I personally care a lot more about non-web-UI clients, but I know a lot of people like web UI, and I love that you seem to care about security pretty deeply.
I just donated. Please continue!
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#14cool. small peeve though, the side panel refreshes via fade-in every time i nav anywhere, if you're redrawing the whole thing, at least disable the fade-in so it's less distracting.
Designer here. Great feedback- will work on this soon ;)
+1 to parent post. It looks awesome, the fade-in is kinda distracting. It also re-fades the main area when you switch between categories.
To the coders: Nice job on using multiple URLs to allow pages to be viewed without JS enabled. Having to reload each page when it is requested is not trendy, but it's nice to know Mailpile will work on locked-down browsers. Kudos!
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#15Big thanks to the developers!
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#16I'm definitely going to be testing this on my own server. I've been looking forward to this since it was annouced.
One bit of constructive critism: You got to lose the Mailpile font (which looks like some bastarization of Museo). I know it's part of your branding, but it has no place in the UI. Not only is it much less readable than almost any simpler sans-serif, but the huge x-width makes the text take up so much more space than it needs. Your backup Helvetica Neue with the weight toned down to 400/500 is a huge improvement alone.
Keep up the good work! This is a true service to society.
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#17This was launched yesterday at the FOSDEM conference and attracted quite a crowd and interest. However, judging just by their presentation, the current team will not be able to bring this product at the level it needs to be to solve the problems they started on. They are smart people, and they get things done, but don't put all your hopes in this basket. Good ideas but acute lack of depth and sophistication.
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#18saw the talk at fosdem yesterday. would be happier if they would have tried to be just a mail user agent instead of their vision of being everything at once.
Well but maybe hte unix philosophy of doing one thing really well really is dead
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#19Why no HSTS? Or Content-Security-Policy?
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#20This was launched yesterday at the FOSDEM conference and attracted quite a crowd and interest. However, judging just by their presentation, the current team will not be able to bring this product at the level it needs to be to solve the problems they started on. They are smart people, and they get things done, but don't put all your hopes in this basket. Good ideas but acute lack of depth and sophistication.
Could you elaborate on why you think this is the case?