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The bottom line for me is: I hate email. It might be a great framework and all, but I dread opening up gmail. I know it's going to be full of shit I don't care

by MrJagil 15y ago

The bottom line for me is: I hate email. It might be a great framework and all, but I dread opening up gmail. I know it's going to be full of shit I don't care about, I know there's going to be an unsurmountable, unsorted, confusing, library of old emails. Further, if i'm expecting an email, it could be anywhere! Bulk? Spam? Inbox? But why then do i love getting an sms? Where's the difference? The speed? The quality? The simplicity? Somewhere, email has gone wrong. A simple answer could be that've just been giving out my email to too many services, but honestly, that's what every email user does, and this should be assumed by the developers. It could be that it's just the clients that are broken, but then fix the clients!

skeptical 15y ago
The part that is broken is between the chair and the keyboard. There are simple ways to prevent junk email to get to you. I open my gmail acount every day and I read pretty much every email I get. I get nearly zero spam/trash. Perhaps you shouldn't sign up for a ton of services that polute your mailbox?
Proleps 15y ago
I hate getting email as well, but I also hate getting text messages. Most people I know think modern communication is holy and you should check you're email and text messages multiple times a day and always answer as soon as possible. I check my email personal email once a day (often don't read any email in the weekend) and this sometimes pisses people off. It sometimes feels like I should constantly be on my guard because people have send me something important (which it almost never is). I would love it if we could go back to the time when you could only answer the phone when you are at home. Or the time when it was acceptable to wait two days to reply to email. But i guess this is a bit of topic because the original message was talking about the technical part of email :P
dools 15y ago
Simple: use filters, unsubscribe, keep your inbox at zero by default.

by MrJagil 15y ago

skeptical 15y ago

The part that is broken is between the chair and the keyboard. There are simple ways to prevent junk email to get to you. I open my gmail acount every day and I read pretty much every email I get. I get nearly zero spam/trash. Perhaps you shouldn't sign up for a ton of services that polute your mailbox?

Proleps 15y ago

I hate getting email as well, but I also hate getting text messages. Most people I know think modern communication is holy and you should check you're email and text messages multiple times a day and always answer as soon as possible. I check my email personal email once a day (often don't read any email in the weekend) and this sometimes pisses people off. It sometimes feels like I should constantly be on my guard because people have send me something important (which it almost never is). I would love it if we could go back to the time when you could only answer the phone when you are at home. Or the time when it was acceptable to wait two days to reply to email. But i guess this is a bit of topic because the original message was talking about the technical part of email :P

dools 15y ago

Simple: use filters, unsubscribe, keep your inbox at zero by default.