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>Email is actively dying and being replaced by closed alternatives (Messenger, Slack, etc) No it's not. Slack and Messenger are replacing IRC. Ever tried writ
by romwell 8y ago
>Email is actively dying and being replaced by closed alternatives (Messenger, Slack, etc)
No it's not. Slack and Messenger are replacing IRC.
Ever tried writing an actual letter to someone? If you forgot what those are, think a longform article, but with the intended audience of 1.
No messenger handles long passages of text well, because they are not designed to do that. And things like online status visibility are anti-features when it comes to letters.
If you want an exchange channel that's optimized for exchanging long messages, with no expectation of immediacy in response, with ridiculously accessible archival tools (ever heard of email clients?) there isn't anything that comes close to email.
- s17n 8y ago>If you want an exchange channel that's optimized for exchanging long messages, with no expectation of immediacy in response, with ridiculously accessible archival tools (ever heard of email clients?) there isn't anything that comes close to email. Yeah, but if most people you know don't have active email accounts, that doesn't matter, and it's the direction that we're headed.
- romwell 8y ago>if most people you know don't have active email accounts You and I are living in very different worlds if that's the case. A lot of my friends are not using Messenger or anything FB-owned. Nobody I know actively uses Slack off-work. Everyone has an email. For quite a few of my friends, that's the primary way of reaching them.
- JohnFen 8y ago> if most people you know don't have active email accounts, that doesn't matter, and it's the direction that we're headed. I think some evidence is required to support this claim.