Ask HN: What do you want most from webmail?

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by starter • 15 years ago

5 14 15 years ago

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Webmail has been the same old for too long. What do you wish your web mail had?

Even better spam filters? Absolutely no ads?

And, are you already happy with what you can do with IMAP across all of your devices?

apas2• 15 years ago

I love Gmail's filters.

Labels/folders, no ads would be awesome, IMAP (and Push) is exceptional.

I'd like to see everyone implementing Gmail's "conversation" layout but not taking it to other level—making email look like chat, that is.

Plus, I'd like the feature to export all of my emails from one account whether it's Gmail or Yahoo, etc.

starter6• 15 years ago

This is good. You like Gmail. What one better feature would entice you to leave Gmail. Only no ads?

glimcat2• 15 years ago

Gmail has ads?

Enticing the average HN reader and enticing the average Gmail user are two different problems.

And it already has great spam filtering and minimally-intrusive ads that people have learned to ignore.

apas2• 15 years ago

Sincerely, I don't think I could ever leave Gmail -- given, at least, its current competitors.

vipivip2• 15 years ago

upvote/downvote emails

vipivip2• 15 years ago

upvote/downvote emails.

starter6• 15 years ago

Sounds like a really intriguing idea but why? What exactly do you want that up voting to do for you?

It could be a way to ensure that emails from contacts with higher votes are prioritized. Is that it?

staunch• 15 years ago

Gmail was a huge step forward from Hotmail/Yahoo. People went from 4MB storage ad-riddled sluggishness to massive storage AJAX interface awesomeness.

Unless you have ideas that are as big as that you probably shouldn't bother stepping into the ring. The product quality bar is very high and so is the lock-in for email (Yahoo/Hotmail are still bigger than Gmail).

starter6• 15 years ago

Yahoo/Hotmail are still bigger? Thanks for the eye-openers. I'm passionate about helping people communicate more easily so if I discover a way to make email more efficient for my generation, I'll step into the ring!

russjhammond• 15 years ago

Batch delivery, except for urgent messages. I like to get my email like my snail mail, all at once.

Ask HN: What do you want most from webmail?

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