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.
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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.