UI of email has stagnated or regressed because big companies don't benefit from improving it. They prefer to lock you into incompatible messaging platforms (Slack, Telegram, Discord, Teams, ...) where email UI could easily be adapted to have similar interfaces in many cases.
It is time to ban email
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#12$foo considered harmful
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#13Email is one of the best communication protocols humanity has ever invented.
Do you want to give Meta the keys to all your communications? Or Slack, who sends them off to AI training models?
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#14Can we not just throw out the last widespread open communication protocol with the bath water?
Some people would very much want us to do that, though
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#15UI of email has stagnated or regressed because big companies don't benefit from improving it. They prefer to lock you into incompatible messaging platforms (Slack, Telegram, Discord, Teams, ...) where email UI could easily be adapted to have similar interfaces in many cases.
See https://delta.chat/en/ - I use it for basically all email now. It is a genuine leap forward in UI.
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#16Sure let's dump email in favor of a new non-proprietary, open standards, decentralized and non-commercial protocol. Name one If you like.
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#17Bluesky post quoted by TFA: "Friendly reminder to use literally anything other than email if you need to have a conversation between multiple people that you have any hope in following."
Are we backflipping from "this meeting could have been an email" to "this email (thread) could have been a meeting"?
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#18And replace it with....
Email is a neutral protocol, in a natural monopoly, very hard to replace unless you want to choose a state sanctioned monopoly like you would to Facebook's Whatsapp or Apple's messenger.
This sounds like fatalistic throwing the baby with the bath water, I know that there's a fine line between operator's error and bad system design, but when a piece of technology has been stable for 40 years, and there is a fuck up, you can't reaally blame it on the tech.
If there's really sensitive info like informants or HIV patients, maybe implement some serious access controls so that not even operators have access to that sensitive info.
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#19Can we not just throw out the last widespread open communication protocol with the bath water?
Some people would very much want us to do that, though
I disagree strongly with them.
Thankfully, in order to "ban" email, they would have to painstakingly eliminate large swaths of the internet. That kind of thing is only possible if you have strong central control of entire nations.
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#20So cc and bcc are the stake in the heart of email, but let's keep sending love notes to the hamburger icon and every other inscrutable piece of dumb junk of which people seem to be able to make sense.