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Not telling you what you should or shouldn't do, just pointing out that depending on a centralized piece of Microsoft software is maybe not necessary in an age where you could use anything you want for communications. Which is rather funny because we used to say the same in the 90s.

Maybe this time we will evolve tho

70 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 6 May

To start with, your suggested solution should include the entire world in CC

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Mailing list?

PS: kind of dramatically self-important to seek the whole world as audience. Did you cure death?

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70 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 6 May

Does this mailing list send all previously sent emails to new subscribers?

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I'm sure Claude can code you that feature in 2 minutes, but it sounds like a bit of an anti-feature. It's not really needed either - anyone can just serve an archive. Don't need centralization, don't need push on things that can be pulled.

Sure, Github is nice. Until it bans you. Or worse. Until it bans/suspends the author of the PR you just spent some hours on and the PR magically disappears, including your work. Or until it goes down or defunct.

If you disagree that GH is a weak link, fine. We can differ in opinions about that. All I'm saying is: it's just some software, and there can be other software. In 2026, we're only locked to those systems we choose to be locked to or that we don't care enough about to just spend some effort on to free ourselves of. This may change with the friction we experience from such software.

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70 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 6 May

I don't disagree. I just think feature parity is a requirement for something to be a replacement.

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 6 May

I think that that depends on whether you can pull off a process improvement by removing or reforming a feature, or you can trade a greater friction for a lesser one, or you decide to experience a different pain and discover what you really need.

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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 May

Good points

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