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Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by aerique » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

I gave up reading that page with all the animations going on.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

#32

Post by thesmallestcat » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:14 PM UTC

odammit wrote: post #13

Ok I fold. I’m switching back to regular old postal mail.

Smoke signals here, can't trust the postman either.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by odammit » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:15 PM UTC

I’m curious, what you all think the future of email is?

I am finding that I use it less and less each year. How much are you using it compared to previous years?

- My friend communication is done almost strictly through messaging services

- work communication is done through Slack and Jira (yuck)

I feel like email for me has become this awkward auth-proxy.

It’s how I magic link in, “confirm” who I am, reset my password, or get spammed by marketers.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by yread » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:16 PM UTC

Does anyone else see glitches in the GIF of booking.com (specifically the Arc de Triomphe)

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by lern_too_spel » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #23

hungerstrike wrote: post #19

And just yesterday I was searching for a way to get further away from AMP. For now, the only way is to always ask for the Desktop Site when I search. Unfortunately, iOS Safari doesn't allow me to set this per site and I have to do it manually every single time I search.

Use Firefox Mobile, Google hasn’t deployed AMP for that yet.

But Bing has.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by odammit » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

carlivar wrote: post #24

odammit wrote: post #13

Ok I fold. I’m switching back to regular old postal mail.

You can also fax memos. For intra office, pneumatic tubes.

Some start up somewhere has pneumatic tubes and some little beautiful nerd is hacking them into something cool and/or funny.

I’m a little jealous.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:19 PM UTC

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Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by whyagaindavid » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:20 PM UTC

For all the criticism of Google/Gmail/AMP at least the spec is open. AMP allows me to browse with minimal data.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by cup-of-tea » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #4

I genuinely fear the future of email. Email is still the only piece of communication you can own, from top to bottom, from running the service to owning the domain[^1] it runs on. You were able to send anyone email, regardless of rank, location, social status. Google (and recently, Outlook) is taking all of it away. It's putting mail from people not on your contact list in spam[^3]; it's by default blaclisting IPs wi…

Why is it the only form? You can certainly run your own IRC or Jabber server or something. I don't understand why you think only email can be run top to bottom.

Unfortunately email became stupid a long time ago. Partly thanks to braindead clients like Outhouse and partly thanks to Gmail. Remember when Gmail came out and they advertised "threads" as a feature? Yeah... we had threads before Outhouse et al. proliferated enough to make them useless.

And don't forget the way those clients make you "quote" previous messages.

Free software mailing lists still make email nice to use. Simple, plain text and intelligent.

Re: Bringing AMP to Gmail

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Post by OberstKrueger » Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 3:22 PM UTC

odammit wrote: post #33

I’m curious, what you all think the future of email is? I am finding that I use it less and less each year. How much are you using it compared to previous years? - My friend communication is done almost strictly through messaging services - work communication is done through Slack and Jira (yuck) I feel like email for me has become this awkward auth-proxy. It’s how I magic link in, “confirm” who I am, reset my passwo…

I use e-mail just as much today as I did 10-15 years ago. Some communication takes place in real-time messaging services, but e-mail is still useful for long-form communication, and less timely messages. IMing can't replace e-mail for me for all purposes.