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I started with that post as well, and had a similar reaction. Also I find it misses most of the real points against email and focuses on the relatively minor o
by nikisweeting 5y ago
I started with that post as well, and had a similar reaction.
Also I find it misses most of the real points against email and focuses on the relatively minor ones.
- email enforces much higher latency communication, which maybe good sometimes, but most of the time is not helpful
- much more difficult to actually keep track of a threaded conversation with multiple concurrent subtrees, it's a stack when instead you want a tree like Zulip / Slack threads. quote replying a subthread in an email tree without disrupting convos in the rest is a painful experience even in the nicest clients.
- file attachment and embed preview experience is worse than most modern IM apps
- no emoji reactions, these are huge for efficient async communication without spamming everyone with notifications