[afcool83]

At some point email went from a true communication avenue to just “sending this for reference”. Apps and services are adding their own notification inboxes and comment threads (or activity logs) and @-mentions as an interaction pattern so that they can enrich and embed communication in the context of what they do.

I won’t go so far as to say that email is dying, but it’s certainly changing in purpose.

[warner25]

As someone who enjoys corresponding with old friends and distant family via email (as opposed to, like, text messages or social media comments), I feel like this trend has ruined my ability to do so. It seems like people - who've given up and let their inboxes become flooded - just don't even look in their inboxes for legitimate, personal correspondence anymore.

[funOtter]

> It seems like people ... just don't even look in their inboxes for legitimate, personal correspondence anymore

I disagree with that - in my experience sending persona correspondence to my friends/family are generally received and read.

It does seem like people really want the "like (with an emoji)" funcitonality of the rest of the web in email ... Gmail and Outlook are building it in, but unless you're in their walled gardens it does not work great (i.e. email reply: "X has ed your message")

[scarface_74]

It’s been a meme that “email is for old people” since 2006.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/dec/06/digitalco...

Even my 80 year old mom texts me.

How people reach me depending on the level of relationship is Text > Facebook Messenger > LinkedIn > Email.

Even at work almost all announcements and messages go through Slack.

I work in consulting and when we start a client project, we either connect them to a dedicated “external-“ Slack temporary channel in our org or our client creates a user for us usually within their Microsoft Teams/Office365 implementation.

No one wants to use Email.