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> Why are so many of your great contributors so hostile to the only part of the Internet that is still truly decentralized? > Why do they hate store-and-forwar
by gspr 4y ago
> Why are so many of your great contributors so hostile to the only part of the Internet that is still truly decentralized?
> Why do they hate store-and-forward, latency-tolerant networks?
I do like email-based development. And I pay for Sourcehut. But I also understand why others don't like email-based interfaces. And I too sometimes get annoyed by Debian's BTS taking minutes to act on (email-based) changes to bug reports. Minutes where I'm just idly sitting around waiting so as not to have to context switch. I abhor GH and friends, but oh man sometimes an instantaneous interface is important.
- Tmpod 4y ago> but oh man sometimes an instantaneous interface is important. That can indeed be a flow breaker, however, in my experience, it's not necessarily an email issue, but Debian's in this case, since sending stuff to lists.sr.ht is pretty snappy (like a couple of seconds after the client sends it). It isn't as fast and instantaneous as your typical web UI yet it's not a flow breaker either, imo, though YMMV.
- gspr 4y agoBut that's the point: the original poster pointed out the great value in store-and-forward, latency-tolerant systems like email. So while you may indeed be lucky and have low-latency interactions through email in certain situations, you've then added extra assumptions and requirements to the aforementioned latency-tolerant robust system. Wanting fast ("instant") response times from a system based on email seems like a folly.