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> How is it even remotely sane to provide a user interface instead of an API/protocol? It's the way of the world. 20 years ago we had NNTP, POP, and IMAP, and
by username223 10y ago
> How is it even remotely sane to provide a user interface instead of an API/protocol?
It's the way of the world. 20 years ago we had NNTP, POP, and IMAP, and you could read them all with Gnus, customized with finely-tuned filtering and killfiles. But it's hard to "unlock value" from these things, so then there were ad-strewn forums, and now SaaS abominations, because how dare you not change your mail client when its developer thinks you should?