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Ask HN: What's wrong with email? What do you hate about it?

1 points by chdaniel 7y ago

hootbootscoot 7y ago
<sarcasm> I just hate how I can receive over 10k messages without paying money for this. Clearly Slack has out-innovated here... I just don't know what we would ever do if these genii hadn't invented threaded messaging. </sarcasm> I don't hate anything about email except spam and the measures necessary to contain said tsunami. What is super amazing is how well this intra-machine user-messaging system scaled OUT of said box in the first place. (it was only ever supposed to be for users of one mainframe computer to message each other...) "inter-network email" = wow. who knew it would even work.