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by llamaLord 851 days ago
To be clear, this is not a dig, but I love that we're basically coming full-circle back to email, just without any of the decentralization and inter-tennant interoperability that comes natively to email.

All we need now is for someone to give every Linen user an externally accessible handle that allows cross-tenant invites or 'thread sharing' and we'll have officially closed the loop.
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rockwotj 851 days ago
Seriously. Shortwave before it pivoted to AI, before it pivoted to Google Inbox replacement, was attempting to be slack for email. You can still see parts of this alive in the UI today. But it was a dream to just have a really good mailing list UX over a slack channel. I don’t like Slack, but it has a serious moat and a lot of folks were nervous about blending internal chat and external formal email. Which once you get to a certain scale you realize Slack doesn’t work and all large notification streams eventually turn into a crappy version of email without labels, filters, search, or etc
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llamaLord 850 days ago
> crappy version of email without labels, filters, search

"Oh and if you'd like to talk to someone from outside your company, my god have mercy on your soul if their entire business isn't also subscribed to our premium plan" - someone at Slack, almost certainly.

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stonogo 851 days ago
Taking the long road back to Delta Chat? https://delta.chat/en/
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cheeseblubber 851 days ago
Thanks! Linen is secretly email in disguise. We have played around with syncing with email clients which would let you manage all your messages and notifications from one client.
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llamaLord 851 days ago
As someone who has officially given up on having any semblance of keeping up with the never ending fire house of totally unmanageable slack threads, channels, DMs etc, especially since Slacks update last year, I would sell my left Kidney to just have one big list of things I need to look at at reply to/dismiss.
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ahartmetz 850 days ago
That sounds similar to Basecamp tbh.
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llamaLord 847 days ago
I've actually REALLY wanted to find a project that would be suitable to give base camp a try with.

It DOES feel like it "could" be that holy-grail between IM, project management, email, etc.

But I feel like you need a whole team all onboard for it to make sense.

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