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Rid yourself of long email threads with micromobs
- citizenkeys 16y agomicromobs is a useful way to move email threads to a discussion forum.
- gavrielh 16y agoKiller application - it's a real game changer.
- asterix 16y agoI have been using micromobs and like their service. It is a crowded space, so hope they can iterate on functionality quickly enough to find their sweet spot
- salimmadjd 16y agoLove the service, I think this will be the tipping point year for micromobs
- mmayernick 16y agoReally clever! I guess the challenge would be keeping users in the group rather than reverting back to email the next time a big discussion is about to start. Are there tools to keep users updated? Like a daily digest maybe?
- krassif 16y agoGreat service!
- billshander 16y agoMicromobs is great - definitely helps keep my email sane!
- ajaykam 16y agoIt turns out to be a pretty complicated problem. Every single email client and device formats email forwards differently. The technical challenge is to take the input from a fwd'd thread, account for which client it's coming from and then reformat it in a way that makes sense. Not to mention the fact that the text towards the bottom of a forwarded thread (the earliest messages) is messy and can be difficult to comprehend. Parsing garbage and turning it into something useful is a hell of a challenge.
- nzmsv 16y agoIt actually does look kinda interesting. But what's with all the spambot comments?
- ajaykam 16y agono idea. apparently spam bots love us.
- jaredhansen 16y agoI don't think they're bots. I recognize about half the names, and though they may not be regular HN contributors, they're real people (some of 'em, at least).
- lt 16y agoA few of them, yes. The rest are newly-created accounts and others (like billshander) are around 3 month old but with shady comment history. Interesting. Edit: I suppose the occam's razor explanation is that someone emailed (or twitted) the link around asking for people to show them some support in here, instead of an intricate botting conspiracy.
- eggnestceo 16y agoYep, I checked this out and created an account because of a tweet that I got. I follow some startup CEOs. Hope you don't consider this to be a "shady" comment ;-) And yes, I am a fan of micromobs; it has been useful to me. It's kindof like campfire, but better.
- ilikepi 16y agoI'm pretty new here (though I lurked for a like a year before creating an account), but I don't think your comment will be considered "shady". What your comment has that the others lack is, 1) actual descriptive information, and 2) an attempt to participate in the discussion.
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- trevania 16y agoVanquishing the "reply all" button. Go micromobs!
- molecularhack 16y agoAmen!
- satyajit 16y agoNext challenge for Micromobs is to import HN thread to a mob. #Hackermob
- markdodo 16y agolove the service.