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Nice updates from Thunderbird team.

But will E-mail on the whole ever get features like other chat platform? Even conversation view is not good on the eye. Quoting is ugly in long Email body.

Maybe only protocols are getting updated!? I think email is only still here because its a form of identification.

Most companies and groups are moving towards Discord, Slack, etc. for a proper discussion.



> Most companies and groups are moving towards Discord, Slack, etc. for a proper discussion.

They are moving for instant discussions, but not for proper discussions.

Instant messaging is the death of knowledge. Emails aren't much better IMO, but there's still a bigger feeling of permanency and availability than IM.


> Most companies and groups are moving towards Discord, Slack, etc. for a proper discussion.

That must be right. I got let go from my last job because I refused to use 5+ different instant messaging software and instead stick with email. In hindsight, I guess I should have been wiser.


email works between companies because it's based on standards whereas messaging companies are all trying to lock us in to their particular system so they can "win" and that ensures that we cannot "chat" to people with some other software.


Check out DeltaChat [1] :-)

It uses emails for chatting.

Though personally, I'm quite happy with this separation of emails and chats. They are for different stuff.

[1] https://delta.chat/en/




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