Lars Wirzenius rounded up some responses to an ask about what people like and dislike about email. Here’s the full list, but I’ll pluck off a few:
Likes
- It’s not real time
- It’s established
- Separation between discussions
- Subject lines
Dislikes
- Unreliable (no strong guarantee reciept gets it)
- Spam
- Quoting, specifically top-quoting
- Organization is difficult
I think the whole list is fair, but the lists of strengths are really strong, and the list of dislikes feels solvable and not a problem for many/most. For example, I don’t really get much spam. I don’t have a problem searching. I don’t have a problem with deliverability. Email ain’t perfect, but it’s overwhelmingly good.
One response to “What people like or hate about email”
personally, I hate subject lines because I never know what to put there, for example do I just write “request” or “request for this and that”, “document” “here is the document you just told me, in person, to send to you”