Email allows inline git reviews and comments, without HTML, CSS, JS, and the microservice jungle needed to host a web app these days.
I follow a few of the Linux kernel mailing lists and frankly I am jealous af; no Slack, no Jira, no web UI I can accidentally refresh which flushes state and deletes the comment I was writing. Was less bandwidth hungry.
Hosted UI just seem like a huge waste and a whole lot of agency capture by VCs. Just release a Docker image, give me an API key.
Same here. I've tried though for some time to get more into the Linux Kernel workflow of git and struggle to this day. I think it is great for people that have spend the time to incorporate the built-in tooling, but a lot of people simply never because it is time consuming and opinionated. The biggest hurdle is probably just having a text-based mail client and SMTP setup.
I follow a few of the Linux kernel mailing lists and frankly I am jealous af; no Slack, no Jira, no web UI I can accidentally refresh which flushes state and deletes the comment I was writing. Was less bandwidth hungry.
Hosted UI just seem like a huge waste and a whole lot of agency capture by VCs. Just release a Docker image, give me an API key.