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Fastmail is recommended so often on HN it's starting to feel like a bit of a meme, but if you want a solid, reliable cloud email provider with a better and fast

Fastmail is recommended so often on HN it's starting to feel like a bit of a meme, but if you want a solid, reliable cloud email provider with a better and faster UI than Gmail, check it out. If it's helpful, I wrote a small guide on switching off of Gmail here: https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/ Edit: And as an aside, my guess would be that very few people are storing their email solely on their computer. Even people running their own mail servers are likely storing the mail on the server and syncing it to their clients with IMAP.

mathstuf 4y ago
Agreed. Gmail is a rampant lagfest whenever I end up using it (I only go to update filters and labels anymore). The HTML site is a lot more responsive and usable IME (though the filter form's length limits need edited in a debugger to fit my queries). With the "plain" HTML frontend filter updates are fast because it's all done directly to the database. With the "fancy" frontend, it seems to be client-side driven and take minutes to "apply and update" any changes.