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I think we should go the opposite way. I think we should push more onto email. email is pretty ubiquitous. Nearly everyone online has email. It's as close to u
by JustSomeNobody 6y ago
I think we should go the opposite way. I think we should push more onto email. email is pretty ubiquitous. Nearly everyone online has email. It's as close to universal as anything else for accessing people. Instead of having a dozen different chat apps, push chats to email. Instead of a half dozen Slack wannabe apps, push all that to email. We should expand the email protocol to support that.
- t0astbread 6y agoTwo reasons why I don't think this is a good idea: 1. Mixing different applications in one inbox would be a mess for a lot of people (e.g. your IM would drown out important work email) 2. Privacy - avoiding unique online identifiers when they're not needed is a good idea
- W00kasz 6y agoI solved 1 by using an alias of my email for reading (e.g.,myemail+reading@gmail.com), using that to subscribe to newsletters, create a filter in Gmail to have anything sent to that email skip my inbox and apply a "reading" label, then use the multiple inboxes feature in Gmail to display a distinct section for emails sent to that alias. It works really well for me and keeps newsletters from cluttering things. I also have a Gmail label widget on my android phone that opens up my Gmail app straight to the reading label. It all works like a charm!
- betwixthewires 6y agoWhile we are at it, let's put everything you could possibly need into the browser... Sure, a little snarky but I'm getting my point across. We have different tools because different situations require different tools. IM exists because it is used differently than email, and email is not well suited to real time back and forth short messages. Atom and RSS feeds exist because honestly someone doesn't need to know your email address for you to take an interest in what they publish.