On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 09:36:42 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 01:59:00 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > PS: on the importance of emojis and (animated) stickers: I can see why > > people want them for friends and family, I love the sticker packs I have > > on > > Telegram. But why it is mandatory in a somewhat more professional > > environment is a bit beyond me, people also still use e-mail despite it > > neither supporting stickers nor emojis (Well, unless html mails, but > > thank > > god that at least there we agree that it is an abomination) > > It's just that young people do _not_ use email unless absolutely forced to. > There is a reason why it can take days until someone replies to an email on > the VDG mailing list, while the various Telegram groups the VDG is in are > buzzing with activity. > Or why my coworkers (professional environment, but a gaming company so > predominantly people younger than me) hardly ever send an email but do > everything on Slack. > > Emoji certainly are not the only reason for that, but they are an important > contributor to making communication on Telegram or Slack feel more natural > than fun than email. Email is not fun at all.
I meant ore natural _and_ fun than email, of course. And here we have another thing feature I sorely miss whenever I have to use one of the old communication protocols: The ability to edit my messages.