I would only optimize it for business users. Shorten the text (maybe force that even with AI or limitations, keep it async, chat is too sync). If you follow this rules Emails get a lot more productive. I like the simple adobtable approach of Emails in the "GitLab handbook" https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
I wouldn't say nothing. Discord and Slack are making a serious dent into one of the primary use cases of email. Facebook has also entirely replaced email in f&f communication. Twitter+Facebook have mostly replaced product newsletters. It's also slowly-but-surely being phased out in identity confirmation, by oauth2 (which is a really, really sad thing given the proprietary lockin of oauth2).
Nothing will replace email altogether any time soon but if you offer a better tool for one of the many, many use cases it has, people will switch. Email became the default means of communication because it was the only way to communicate; it's not anymore.
What's really unfortunate is that everything I have listed is proprietary. We're putting our communication channels (both as users and as companies) in the hands of private companies that could shut us down at any moment.
I think your right. There might be a chance that one day an all encompassing communication mechanism that can do video, audio, group and 1on1 data as well as instant and fire and forget could potentially slowly replace email given time and delivery.
But how it gets delivered matters, it can't be locked up in IP and sold by a company because its competing with free and open standard and that means there isn't any practical money in it directly. The only competitor to email is the updated open standard that is better.
There can be a better email standard, it can be delivered in a more modern way and have the "isms" improved and be able to do it all. What it can't be is anything but another open standard and free.
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I would only optimize it for business users. Shorten the text (maybe force that even with AI or limitations, keep it async, chat is too sync). If you follow this rules Emails get a lot more productive. I like the simple adobtable approach of Emails in the "GitLab handbook" https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
I wouldn't say nothing. Discord and Slack are making a serious dent into one of the primary use cases of email. Facebook has also entirely replaced email in f&f communication. Twitter+Facebook have mostly replaced product newsletters. It's also slowly-but-surely being phased out in identity confirmation, by oauth2 (which is a really, really sad thing given the proprietary lockin of oauth2).
Nothing will replace email altogether any time soon but if you offer a better tool for one of the many, many use cases it has, people will switch. Email became the default means of communication because it was the only way to communicate; it's not anymore.
What's really unfortunate is that everything I have listed is proprietary. We're putting our communication channels (both as users and as companies) in the hands of private companies that could shut us down at any moment.
I think your right. There might be a chance that one day an all encompassing communication mechanism that can do video, audio, group and 1on1 data as well as instant and fire and forget could potentially slowly replace email given time and delivery.
But how it gets delivered matters, it can't be locked up in IP and sold by a company because its competing with free and open standard and that means there isn't any practical money in it directly. The only competitor to email is the updated open standard that is better.
There can be a better email standard, it can be delivered in a more modern way and have the "isms" improved and be able to do it all. What it can't be is anything but another open standard and free.