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But email does not have an UI, only mail reader application do have a UI. And many modern default mail reader applications have an awful UI, but that is not a s

But email does not have an UI, only mail reader application do have a UI. And many modern default mail reader applications have an awful UI, but that is not a sign of email being somehow bad.

orangeboats 3y ago
That email clients is the way they are by default, should already say something, no? The majority of people use emails like electronic mails because that's what email is designed for! Source code sharing is a separate protocol bolted onto email, and the fact that you have to use a specific email client (which I should mention, is largely unheard of outside of a small circle) is indeed an admittance of email being bad. It's possible that you can fix a car with just a knife. But considering the difficulties and how unintuitive it is - is that not a sign of knife being somehow bad for the job?
- funcDropShadow 3y ago
  > Source code sharing is a separate protocol bolted onto email, and the fact that you have to use a specific email client (which I should mention, is largely unheard of outside of a small circle) is indeed an admittance of email being bad. No, email is better suited for meaningful communication than most forums and code review web interfaces. And that is a direct consequence of the fact that it was designed to facilitate communication between humans. Github is simply missing a way to see easily and intuitively which message responded which other. I am thinking of something like the classic threading tree of an email client. That information makes it much easier to follow a discussion between more than two people. That same tree is also great at showing what I have already read and what is new. How do you do that in GitHub? As far as I know there is no way to do that. I can even label certain messages just for me. In order to keep the overview. I can move emails between folders virtual or not to organize all the communication threads that I am participating in. Neither of which is possible with pull requests in GitHub or almost every other forge.
konart 3y ago
Okay, but what other choice do I have? Neuralink?

But email does not have an UI, only mail reader application do have a UI. And many modern default mail reader applications have an awful UI, but that is not a sign of email being somehow bad.

orangeboats 3y ago

That email clients is the way they are by default, should already say something, no? The majority of people use emails like electronic mails because that's what email is designed for! Source code sharing is a separate protocol bolted onto email, and the fact that you have to use a specific email client (which I should mention, is largely unheard of outside of a small circle) is indeed an admittance of email being bad. It's possible that you can fix a car with just a knife. But considering the difficulties and how unintuitive it is - is that not a sign of knife being somehow bad for the job?

funcDropShadow 3y ago
> Source code sharing is a separate protocol bolted onto email, and the fact that you have to use a specific email client (which I should mention, is largely unheard of outside of a small circle) is indeed an admittance of email being bad. No, email is better suited for meaningful communication than most forums and code review web interfaces. And that is a direct consequence of the fact that it was designed to facilitate communication between humans. Github is simply missing a way to see easily and intuitively which message responded which other. I am thinking of something like the classic threading tree of an email client. That information makes it much easier to follow a discussion between more than two people. That same tree is also great at showing what I have already read and what is new. How do you do that in GitHub? As far as I know there is no way to do that. I can even label certain messages just for me. In order to keep the overview. I can move emails between folders virtual or not to organize all the communication threads that I am participating in. Neither of which is possible with pull requests in GitHub or almost every other forge.

konart 3y ago

Okay, but what other choice do I have? Neuralink?