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Well, except for the case when you want a unique-looking email, with your own style, then plaintext kind of sucks :) Sure, we could argue that people shouldn't
by diggan 1y ago
Well, except for the case when you want a unique-looking email, with your own style, then plaintext kind of sucks :)
Sure, we could argue that people shouldn't want that, but then reality tends to be somewhat annoying like that.
- lproven 1y agoAnd yet, we all coped with SMS. Despite this terrible burden on people's SpArkLiNg 0rIg1n4l cReAtIviTy we send TRILLIONS a year. https://www.intradyn.com/text-message-statistics-trends/ https://www.intradyn.com/text-message-statistics-trends/ It's not so bad. You can live with it. Being CREATIVE and expressing your personality damages the medium and impairs conveying your message. So: don't.
- diggan 1y ago> And yet, we all coped with SMS. We literally didn't, otherwise MMS wouldn't have been as popular as it was :) Personally I too prefer plaintext in almost every case. But I also understand why people don't share that preference.
- lproven 1y agoIn my world, MMS never was popular. Where do you live?
- diggan 1y agoLive in Spain, but grew up in Sweden, am around 30 years old. In late 90s/early 2000s, MMS was wildly popular among my peers.
- lproven 1y agoHuh. OK, then. Interesting datapoint. It was a PITA flop in the UK -- it occasionally kicked in when an SMS went over length or you added a smiley, and cost you 10x as much to send.