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If anything, I like email now because these days people in my circles only use it for informational purposes, which means no annoying chain messages, empty insp
by lhorie 5y ago
If anything, I like email now because these days people in my circles only use it for informational purposes, which means no annoying chain messages, empty inspirational videos, Facebook conspiracies and their ilk.
Also, unlike the unfiltered stream model of chat, you can organize emails into folders, delete useless ones and actually have a decent chance at finding past things via keyword search (because email subject lines). Paradoxically, email also has really good convo threading. In other words, email has high signal to noise ratio.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoI agree. My work has both an unofficial slack and official email. Email is for the serious, no nonsense posts. Slack can have a mix, but with the understanding that it is more informal. We do not pay for slack, so this informality is enforced by the message/content being unavailable as we go on.
- atatatat 5y agoconspiracy theories**
- Siira 5y agoThe last paragraph can be done with a good IM, such as Telegram, as it has not crippled itself to virtue signal E2E, and has functional cloud sync and search. I even forward my emails to it as it’s easier to organize them there.
- warrenm 5y agoHow do you forward email to Telegram?
- kureikain 5y agoYou can use a system like https://hanami.run https://hanami.run. It support forward to Telegram. FULL DISCLOSURE: I'm the founder
- teitoklien 5y agoAtleast for gmail , google has their own telegram bot (has the blue tick beside it) , just type “gmail bot” in your telegram search bar , it will have a bot with a blue tick beside it
- Siira 5y agoI also use this, but it's not gotten any updates since it was introduced. I would like to rewrite a bot from scratch, but the Gmail bot's initial offering is still good enough that I don't have the motivation. The worst problem it has is the lack of multi-account support. The reply functionality is also a bit buggy. I generally only use it as a read-only client.
- Zak 5y ago> it has not crippled itself to virtue signal E2E It's worth considering that there's a place in the world for both a security-first IM system and a features-first IM system. While Telegram does offer optional encryption, I'm not sure I'd trust it if I wanted to hide the content of my communication from a sophisticated adversary.
- packetlost 5y agoIf you're trying to hide your communications from state-level actors, there are better options than a consumer messaging platform
- Zak 5y agoThere might be if everyone in the conversation is sophisticated enough to use them. If you're trying to set up communication with a large number of people who have consumer-level technical knowledge in a country that had a coup two days ago and is now suffering a crackdown at the hands of the new military dictatorship, Signal might be just the ticket.
- ajdude 5y agoAt this point, I use telegram for essentially everything, not just email either. I found this HN thread through the Hacker News telegram feed[0]. I don't check reddit, or have other RSS feeds anymore, I just subscribe to the equivalent telegram channels. I even use the "to me" telegram channel for searchable notes [0] https://t.me/hacker_news_feed https://t.me/hacker_news_feed
- Siira 5y agoCreating these channels is pretty easy, BTW. Just glue rsstail and a Telegram library such as Telethon together. I have a channel where HN posts with a certain score threshold are posted, for example.
- flal_ 5y agoOrganisation, I tend to disagree conversation/threading is fundamentally broken with email. I really liked nntp for that stuff but alas...