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The future of email should be a deprecation of email. Email is an archaic system, where different clients implement their own versions of rendering or sanitizin
by hw 8y ago
The future of email should be a deprecation of email. Email is an archaic system, where different clients implement their own versions of rendering or sanitizing email. Some platforms don't even include proper email headers. Now there's this 'AMP' that's being shoved up our throats. Not to mention the nuances around deliverability like spf records and dkim. There's also the issue of spam.
I'd love to see email go away and more modern messaging platforms take its place. Having worked on apps and platforms that work with and parse email, email is not the future.
- rainonmoon 8y agoI don't disagree that there's room to move away from email, but how do the current crop of messaging services promise to overcome the problems you mentioned? They all seem as varied in their implementations as you suggest email is. I'll also add that I think if something were to replace email, hopefully it would incorporate the slow response expectation of it. IM etc usually implies an expectation of an immediate answer; the length and expectation of not receiving an immediate reply afforded by email is immensely valuable.
- taeric 8y agoHaving different clients is probably an anti fragile mechanism of email. It literally helps keep it around and mostly working. I think the single worst thing to happen to email is the consolidation to so few vendors, ironically. This move is not changing my view. Does make me think heavily of ditching Gmail as a client. I was using emacs, but can't with advanced protection turned on. :(
- progval 8y agoI'm worried that if email gets deprecated, it will be deprecated by a proprietary service because it's more convenient for users (or worse: several incompatible services, most of which proprietary). Like IRC mostly got replaced by Slack and Discord.
- gumby 8y ago> Email is an archaic system, where different clients implement their own versions of rendering As opposed to web browsers which all perform identically?
- endgame 8y agoNah mate, the web's fine now because everything's Chrome or a reskin of Chromium. /s
- gumby 8y agoI really don't want to go back to the days of having multiple incompatible mail systems. The fragmented instant messaging landscape is terrible enough as it is.
- layoutIfNeeded 8y ago>I'd love to see email go away and more modern messaging platforms take its place. Agreed. Can’t wait for Google Wave to replace email!
- JohnFen 8y ago> Email is an archaic system It's old, certainly, but that doesn't mean it's bad. I haven't seen anything out there that can adequately replace it.