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This feels like a lot of the good stuff Google Wave promised (and failed to deliver) but implemented with e-mail, in a way that will scale. Very nice, and I hope they get good adoption, because whilst most e-mail list web interfaces are terrible, keeping e-mail for casual contributors is invaluable.
I love seeing new "email-first" apps - most of the mailing lists I've used have now moved to either G+ discussion groups or Discourse, so will be interesting to see if this sticks. Are all email clients supported (Outlook, native mobile, Gmail)? From the screenshot it looks like there are HTML buttons to do most of the commands - will these work outside of Gmail or do they rely on some kind of browser extension?
Hey Swanson, I'm Jared, another Threadable founder. The email buttons are HTML. We test them using Litmus, and they work well across all major clients. We need to do a bit more styling for older versions of Outlook, though. That's on the road map in the next week or two.
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Hey Swanson, I'm Jared, another Threadable founder. The email buttons are HTML. We test them using Litmus, and they work well across all major clients. We need to do a bit more styling for older versions of Outlook, though. That's on the road map in the next week or two.
So I assume the buttons are just links then? Can't submit forms in most email clients :)
Feels like I've seen that logo somewhere else... http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_litovxgoHb1qz7ewm.jpg
One key question. Typical startup conundrum. How can I rely on you to keep the discussion archive alive for the long term when you're just starting out with no revenue? Are the archives easy to export and rehost?
Are you guys aware of Stripe's mailing list philosophy? https://stripe.com/blog/email-transparency I think it is genius, theoretically, but it is a bit difficult to get right technically. If you guys could implement a way for companies to adopt that without the need for lots of filter wrangling, that would be epic!
For that matter, if anyone reading this is working with an organization that implements this philosophy, I would love to talk to you!
Hey, please replace Google Groups. It's the worst best solution out there. We use Google Groups a lot for our b2b software trade association ( http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com ) One key question. Typical startup conundrum. How can I rely on you to keep the discussion archive alive for the long term when you're just starting out with no revenue? Are the archives easy to export and rehost?
Going forward, we're very committed to data portability. Your data is yours. We want to keep your business by regularly delighting you, rather than controlling your content. The plan is to make it possible to export your list in a couple formats, probably JSON and mbox to start. This is down the roadmap a bit, probably June or so. However, if anyone needs their archive in the meantime, they can contact me and I'll make it happen.
In the slightly longer term, I want to build a feature that automatically syncs your list archive to your dropbox, so you can search it using tools like spotlight, and easily read it offline.
