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Show HN: Easily publish an email conversation to the web
- zpj5005 14y agoIt would be nice to see what the published thread looks like. Could you have a link to a sample thread on your homepage?
- trevoro 14y agoSure thing. We'll put one up on the website. In the meantime here is a link: https://beta.thread.is/t/c487c28d-285c-4349-8e0f-396699df3e95 https://beta.thread.is/t/c487c28d-285c-4349-8e0f-396699df3e9...
- yahelc 14y agoHow many emails in a thread can this handle? A friend was JUST asking me of a way to export a 55,000 email long email thread. Will he break this if he uses it?
- HarshaThota 14y agoJust out of curiosity, how did the email chain become that long? I've had a few that went into the hunderds but 55,000 is a lot.
- yahelc 14y agoAs my friend tells it, he and his friends have used that single thread as a way to keep in touch for the last 5+ years.
- toomuchtodo 14y ago55K emails in a thread? WTF? =)
- 001sky 14y agoTwist: There might be copyright issues, absent (express) consent of both parties. But i could still see this being interesting in some contexts.
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- trevoro 14y agoWe've definitely thought about that. Personally I find it quite interesting that sharing a link with someone has different psychological perceptions than forwarding an email. There is implied trust with an email conversation - but the reality is you never know who is being BCC'd.
- peterjmag 14y agoGood point. Even without BCC, you have no control over who gets added to a conversation later on. I can think of at least a few instances where a client casually CC'd me on what began as an internal conversation, often with sensitive information earlier on in the thread.
- okalex 14y agoAh man, I've been working on a side project that does just this for the last couple weeks. Was almost ready to show it off. Good on ya, guys.
- rglover 14y agoLaunch it. Yours could be better for all we know.
- okalex 14y agoYep, I'm still going to. There's some difference between our ideas and I think they're both valuable for different segments. I should have a show HN within a week.
- toomuchtodo 14y agoWhy not collaborate?
- trevoro 14y agoCool! I'd love to hear about what you were working on. trevoro [at] coherence.io
- rglover 14y agoWow. I was just wondering if something like this existed not an hour ago. Looks pretty cool, excited to try it out.
- theone 14y agoFirst of all the UI looks clean and impressive. It'll be great if you could also show who all were on that email thread and may be social links of people involved. On a side note, it'll be great if you could show me email conversation happening in mailing lists. It'll be a relief from those boring and complicated interfaces. for eg such email thread can be represented in this format http://librelist.com/browser//easymode/2011/10/9/using-django-easymode-with-django-trunk/ http://librelist.com/browser//easymode/2011/10/9/using-djang...
- joelrunyon 14y agoWhat happens if someone replies to an email that's out of context. Alternatively, what happens if I have a group thread and someone replies directly to me rather than "reply all". Looks super clean but I'm just wondering about some unintended consequences that might come up if I use it.
- trevoro 14y agoI'm not sure what you mean by "out of context" but I will <asssume> you mean "an email that has nothing to do with the original conversation" This particular version relies on Google's conversation grouping implementation to extract the appropriate emails. If someone replies out of context, that would be up to a human to move into a new Thread. We had some thoughts like "fork from here" or "create a new conversation". Right now your email conversations are not automatically sync'd but when they are, any reply to your email conversation (what Gmail interprets as such) would be appended to the page. Unintended Consequences? Isn't that the whole idea? ;)
- slashclee 14y agoHow do I delete a thread?
- state 14y agoFor all of the discussion about how to create distributed social networks I'm surprised there aren't more things built on top of email. This is nice. There's a lot of potential here.
- ckluis 14y agoNow - I could definately see this behind a password as a means of managing/storing/retaining email with attachments for a business. Something with a little intelligence which referenced meetings & other emails would be a sick corporate knowledge base.
- Johngibb 14y agoI know you'd miss the syncing, but why not let me just cc something@thread.is instead of having to gain access to my google account? It would be usable to people on exchange as well that way...
- kalv 14y agoWe had thought about doing it this way but it won't help capturing the responses from the people we email. This is how highrise works and it has that pain.
- PanMan 14y agoLooks nice! But instead of authorizing you access to my gmail account, I'd rather just forward you a thread. You could parse the incoming mail, and reply me the link.
- sfaruque 14y agoI just tried this out. Looks good, though I have a comment. How come I don't see the date and time per email on the thread?
- Erwin 14y agoIf you are using Google Apps for your domain (at least the Business version -- maybe the free one too), you can setup a private Google group and CC it to store such information and make it accessible and searchable to others using your Google App domain. Of course, you can also use Google Groups for a private mailing list, but here you can store a thread (which, like gmail, is nicely collapsed) without having to synchronize everyone joining your group. Handy for document support requests via email.
- madsushi 14y agoAny plans on adding support for Outlook conversations? I have had great technical conversations via Outlook that I would have loved to share with the team, but ended up having to forward the convo.