FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
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FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
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Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#2Does that mean myopera mail is being shuttered? I hope not. It was like a free version of fastmail.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#3This is more interesting for what it means for Opera than for what it means to Fastmail. First they abandon their browser engine, now a top-notch webmail offering. What do Opera even offer these days that you can't get elsewhere? What 'long term vision' is Rob speaking of?
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#4Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#5I love Fastmail and have been a paid user for many years now, but I hate the new AJAXy interface, in particular the infinite scroll as currently implemented. Slow, annoying, and makes it difficult to reach old emails.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#6Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
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Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#7This is more interesting for what it means for Opera than for what it means to Fastmail. First they abandon their browser engine, now a top-notch webmail offering. What do Opera even offer these days that you can't get elsewhere? What 'long term vision' is Rob speaking of?
Unless Opera are building themselves their own little Firefox OS kind of thing they're pretty much fucked moving forward. On the desktop their move to webkit successfully destroyed every reason to use Opera and doesn't measure up against rivals, and they've been netscaped out of mobile.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#8Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
The stance you should take on privacy in the cloud is that the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#9Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a paid customer, I'm loving the service (support too), and this is the only thing keeping me from telling people how great FastMail is.
Re: FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
#10Have been a paying customer of Fastmail.fm since early 2003. It just works and I hope it continues to for many years to come!