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What amazes me in Fastmail is how fast their web UI both on desktop and mobile. Especially compared to Gmail but it's also more responsive than Slack or Trello.

by ivm 10y ago

ocdtrekkie 10y ago
The fact that I can seemingly load and scroll to the end of a 5,000 email list with no discernable loading, is pretty stunning. It's not like an endless scrolling app where it has to load the next x items or anything, you can scroll pretty much instantly to the bottom.
zer0t3ch 10y ago
It does look crazy fast. I'd love to try it, but not worth the cost for personal use.
- morganvachon 10y ago
  As someone who switched away from all Google products, including Gmail, I can definitely say it's worth the cost to me. In fact, I'd pay more than the current rate, now that I've had a chance to really use the service. It is fluid and fast in every browser I've thrown at it, including the work-required IE10. In my opinion, the only thing they could do better is to provide an API for their file storage module, and I believe that is in the works. You get what you pay for, and while Gmail is a good web client it is far from the best. Fastmail beats it hands down as far as I'm concerned.
  - zer0t3ch 10y ago
    I've already (mostly) moved away from google, at least for email. This isn't Google vs. Fastmail to me, this is Fastmail vs. Zoho. (Which I already have a free account with for my domain)
- uladzislau 10y ago
  After loosing a bunch of important emails undelivered to my free Gmail account I actually want to pay for the service.
polpo 10y ago
I've always imagined that the reason that FastMail's web UI is so fast and responsive is because their developers are based in Australia, but their main server presence is in New York. They're optimizing for speed when communicating with a server halfway across the globe, and that benefits everyone.
- nmjenkins 10y ago
  Nailed it. I work on FastMail's web UI and we really care about latency mitigation; we know if we can make it fast with 300ms round trip times, it will be insanely fast for customers with shorter ping times.
  - navs 10y ago
    Bravo! This and the comments above have convinced me. I'm subscribing with my next paycheck :)

What amazes me in Fastmail is how fast their web UI both on desktop and mobile. Especially compared to Gmail but it's also more responsive than Slack or Trello.

by ivm 10y ago

What amazes me in Fastmail is how fast their web UI both on desktop and mobile. Especially compared to Gmail but it's also more responsive than Slack or Trello.

ocdtrekkie 10y ago

The fact that I can seemingly load and scroll to the end of a 5,000 email list with no discernable loading, is pretty stunning. It's not like an endless scrolling app where it has to load the next x items or anything, you can scroll pretty much instantly to the bottom.

zer0t3ch 10y ago

It does look crazy fast. I'd love to try it, but not worth the cost for personal use.

morganvachon 10y ago
As someone who switched away from all Google products, including Gmail, I can definitely say it's worth the cost to me. In fact, I'd pay more than the current rate, now that I've had a chance to really use the service. It is fluid and fast in every browser I've thrown at it, including the work-required IE10. In my opinion, the only thing they could do better is to provide an API for their file storage module, and I believe that is in the works. You get what you pay for, and while Gmail is a good web client it is far from the best. Fastmail beats it hands down as far as I'm concerned.
- zer0t3ch 10y ago
  I've already (mostly) moved away from google, at least for email. This isn't Google vs. Fastmail to me, this is Fastmail vs. Zoho. (Which I already have a free account with for my domain)
uladzislau 10y ago
After loosing a bunch of important emails undelivered to my free Gmail account I actually want to pay for the service.

polpo 10y ago

I've always imagined that the reason that FastMail's web UI is so fast and responsive is because their developers are based in Australia, but their main server presence is in New York. They're optimizing for speed when communicating with a server halfway across the globe, and that benefits everyone.

nmjenkins 10y ago
Nailed it. I work on FastMail's web UI and we really care about latency mitigation; we know if we can make it fast with 300ms round trip times, it will be insanely fast for customers with shorter ping times.
- navs 10y ago
  Bravo! This and the comments above have convinced me. I'm subscribing with my next paycheck :)