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This seems to emphasize the wrong features. > No need to remember email addresses. In the last couple of years, I had to copy-paste a few addresses to send an
by pestaa 14y ago
This seems to emphasize the wrong features.
> No need to remember email addresses.
In the last couple of years, I had to copy-paste a few addresses to send an email and that was the worst case.
> No important announcement is missed.
Hm, have you seen my father managing his email? Also, when you take email overload into account, this is clearly weaker than nagging alerts in a collaboration software.
> If you can send an email, you can use Breeze.
Certainly I can send posts to a Breeze list, but what if a misbehaving user needs to get removed from the list? What if I need to rename my group email? There are a few more tasks involved for a list administrator than a regular end-user. The premise might be good, the phrasing is not.
> Your messages are private and won’t show up on Google, Yahoo, or Bing.
Unless someone leaks it, yes, so this is a false sense of security; and what implicit publicity do people expect from email anyway? They are trained to trust their email account too much already.
And what if my group works just fine until I need to add the 51st member? Darng, now we have to migrate. It definitely smells like a limitation just for its own sake.
Overall I don't think this fits well into the well designed product line of 37signals, but then I welcome anything that keeps people from using Facebook for simple group communication.
- nopal 14y agoThis is the sort of over-critical analysis that is too prevalent on HN. There's a counterargument to any decision, and it seems like you're trying to find ways to disparage something you don't like. I'm not sure any value was added beyond stating the obvious limitations (read: design decisions).
- pestaa 14y agoYes, it's a simple product and my review was probably too in-depth, although if there's any one place to submit it I thought HN would be it. Perhaps stating the obvious is not counter-productive if the product in question is not well thought of, and considering 37signals' history (especially Basecamp Next) I'd argue it applies to Breeze. I tried to phrase my opinion not to be overly cynical and I'm sorry if my comment still remained offensive.
- jthishn 14y ago> The test for substance is a lot like it is for links. Does your comment teach us anything? There are two ways to do that: by pointing out some consideration that hadn't previously been mentioned, and by giving more information about the topic, perhaps from personal experience. Whereas comments like "LOL!" or worse still, "That's retarded!" teach us nothing.
- wissler 14y agoFor heaven's sake, don't apologize for giving an honest opinion. If we had to apologize every time someone in the world found something to get offended by then half our speech would be apologies for the other half.
- pestaa 14y agoIf it matters, I stood completely by my statements. It is not always easy to evaluate whether my tone is appropriate or not, which is why I followed the path of the least resistance.
- wissler 14y agoI thought your statements were insightful and relevant. Some of the the time the HN community is right that somebody is being gratuitously critical or missing the point, but rest of the time they are just touchy and don't want to hear any good criticism. Apologizing for their unreasonableness only encourages it.