Very sensational arguments. I agree with email is and Swift is young. Not sure that's a real reason to ditch email, however 😀. In fact, I could say *because* email is so old, everything about it has become mature and reliable. Besides great, customized clients, it's also a lower requirement for participants. Believe it or not, not everyone in the world can afford the device and data plan for a JavaScript-rich web front end (I'm aware of the mobile apps). I remember only being able to buy an iPod Touch myself when it came out. I *would* be able to participate SE if it existed back then. Because email is so old and work well in offline environment.
> On Feb 7, 2017, at 4:08 AM, Tino Heth <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I’d encourage those who want web forums to give Mail.app a try. It does a >> remarkable job of keeping emails threaded. > That doesn't read like we are using the same Mail.app… it's not failing on a > regular basis for me, but it's far away from being remarkable (at least not > remarkably good). > > Sticking with Email feels terribly behind the times, and considering Swift > being such a young language, that imho is really odd. > Email is old and trusted, but the emphasis is on old: The whole protocol has > big flaws which no one anticipated in the early days, which have never been > fixed, and which most likely won't be fixed ever. > Discourse on the other hand may have some features that could have a tiny > negative impact for those who prefer to keep things as they have been in the > eighties, but it is not a huge network of servers and clients governed by > several billion different parties which makes progress impossible. > It's a single software fully controlled by whoever sets it up — and you know > what: It's even open source! > So every programmer here has the ability to solve all the issues that have > been brought up as an argument to stick with mailing lists (and as it happens > to be that I am a programmer, that gives me a great feeling of empowerment, > whereas the legacy of email leaves me powerless). > >
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