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> I presume you're suggesting a new alternative to email rather than Matrix being itself an alternative (which isn't its intent)... Yes, the intent of my state
by mxuribe 4y ago
> I presume you're suggesting a new alternative to email rather than Matrix being itself an alternative (which isn't its intent)...
Yes, the intent of my statement was hoping for an alternative to email, and i did not mean to imply that matrix would be the thing that would replace email. Both things seek to achieve different things. and even in some rare overlappiny use-cases, i would say that at this time matrix does not universally replace email.
What i should have stated was that with such attention and (at least in some circles) excitement around newer areas like matrix...That maybe traditional email software devs might have - by now - looked into newer alternatives to email. With apologies to email software devs.
And, yep, I had heard of JMAP some time ago....and i figured by now that it would be far more popular than it is, and that it would have been implemented by many more entities by now. Oh well.
- lucideer 4y ago> i figured by now that it would be far more popular than it is, and that it would have been implemented by many more entities by now. Oh well. Well IMAP is 37 years old and Google still haven't gotten around to implementing it properly. Email as a technology moves pretty slowly.
- mxuribe 4y agoLol! You are so right on all points there!!! :-D
- Avamander 4y agoTo be fair here, IMAP has some terrible ideas that have only been remedied with later standards. For example the (in)famous label thing, why should a letter belong in a single folder. Pointless restriction.
- lucideer 4y agoWhat's the infamous label thing? Are you talking about IMAP or Gmail's broken implementation? I was under the impression the first public IMAP spec had support for "flags"... did it need later fixing?