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You consider both third party hosting and self hosting to unacceptable?

• rosser 12y ago
  No, I consider anything where step N involves "go to Github..." a non-starter for anyone who's not already a technologist. Self-hosted is great — in the world Snowden has demonstrated we live in, it's probably the best solution — but it needs to be turn-key, "plug it in and enter a username/password and you're done" level of effort, or it will never become widely used.
  • jiggy2011 12y ago
    It's open source, so someone could easily build a simple installer.
    • PM_Tech 12y ago
      I imagine statements like yours are why Google has the user base it does. [Sscene. PM_Tech has phoned his truck driver father] "*Yes Dad; just build a simple installer to get an email address. An email address...it's like a phone number but letters instead. You know...so the cable company can message you. Well I suppose you could just call them...I don't know, it might take a while to build. You will have to learn programming for a start. I know you are 56. Yes, it will cut into your time for watching sports. I know I am "good" at that "computer stuff" but some guy on HN said this is how you should get an email because he knows how to do it...OK. I will be round for the game. Love to mum." FYI Any service I have to use that starts with going to GitHUb will be ignored unless [a] I am trying to learn something from it [b] It is 2048.
• jarin 12y ago
  I guess the only other option is second-party hosting.