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E-mail. It's pretty amazing.

• bassman9000 8y ago
  It is, and I've discussed how it will be around and strong 10 years from now, when many other current platforms are past dead. But it's not an option for the fast-pace, short-text, short-lived communication, thread style conversations. No, Gmail lock-in is not an option.
  • pmlnr 8y ago
    Email, not gmail.
• pmlnr 8y ago
  Decentralized, can be filtered, everyone has it... yep, email.
• mynewtb 8y ago
  - You are lucky of your provider does push notifications - no presence or typing indicators - no working end to end encryption, definitely so for group threads - no reasonable concept of managing groups - no standard way of quoting - inefficient or unsafe media sharing - insane amounts of spam - no lightweight formatting - no avatars And that's just what randomly came to mind. E-mail sucks for almost anything.
  • romwell 8y ago
    >E-mail sucks for almost anything. Ever tried sending a message that's several pages long on anything but email? Go ahead, do it. See how <your preferred messenger> hits the ground face down on that. Even your short comment is too long to be comfortably read in most IM apps. >- no standard way of quoting Using > is a de-facto standard. Now, I know, you have objections. Before you voice them, try receiving a long message in your IM of choice, and try writing a response quoting parts of the long message you just got. Could you manage to do it in a single message? Ah. Some of use like to write, you know. And email is good for that. Almost anything else sucks.
    • cheeze 8y ago
      Email doesn't suck for almost anything but this is an apples to oranges comparison. Email certainly sucks for short rapid messages. > Some of use like to write, you know. /r/iamverysmart . Some of us like to write short messages quickly, you know. With read receipts and push notifications.