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Nice job, I think it's pretty cool how email has become such a versatile desktop for the world's information, transcending the messaging metaphor. (It'd be int
by themodelplumber 5y ago
Nice job, I think it's pretty cool how email has become such a versatile desktop for the world's information, transcending the messaging metaphor.
(It'd be interesting to see email become an application platform, also for convenience's sake, I mean since it's already reached such a baroque state anyway)
Now if it could be made _just_ a bit easier to host, maintain, migrate, and manage email accounts...
- toomuchtodo 5y agoI agree wholeheartedly with your comment. I think there’s a lot of potential in FastMail championing the new JMAP standard in this regard, as email becomes both rich messages and a non proprietary, non locked in data repository you own and control (and can also migrate on a whim). Why can my messaging platform not retrieve RSS feeds and drop the posts into my inbox just as if they were emails? What would you call such a platform (email with integrations on top, your mailbox represented as a document DB)?
- tentacleuno 5y agoMatrix[0]? [0]: https://matrix.org https://matrix.org
- unraveller 5y ago>Why can my messaging platform not retrieve RSS feeds and drop the posts into my inbox just as if they were emails? Vivaldi Browser does this with a built-in traditional Mail Client, and RSS feed items appear alongside All Messages|Unread by default. Both stored in the same SQLiteDB on disk. Their Mail UI works so well there is even a vivaldi mod to simulate "email" sends via RSS (via websocket) just to take advantage of the app's inner message threading (in-reply-to) UI.