I really really hate the outlook and mail apps on windows. I’m neutral on mail clients in general. Personally, I’m used to PWAs so do everything from my browser or the first party mobile app, but I completely get why people like mail clients
Any Microsoft-owned/created/run mail clients released or redesigned in the last decade or so is always clunky for me. Laggy, clunky, unintuitive, random features vanish, etc etc
Yeah I hate today’s mail desktop clients. Everything got worse with the introduction of “the ribbon” and that becoming the defacto user experience. I use the web clients too and mobile apps but I still don’t like them compared to my old school 2000s “I only want to use a keyboard to solve this most basic of mundane tasks” approach.
Maybe I should build a client for myself, but then that’ll fall into the hundreds of other projects I should start…
Yeah there are, there’s even vim based clients for people who really want the brick all of a learning curve hehe…
If you’ve grown up with web based ones that understandable, but know that you’re talking to someone who started writing code as a child in the early 90s so any minor frustration you feel when a behaviour is unexpected or janky is amplified thousands of % for me as I know I could fix it but don’t work there to be able to fix it. My partner is also a senior dev so you can imagine how much we rant about little things like this haha
I really really hate the outlook and mail apps on windows. I’m neutral on mail clients in general. Personally, I’m used to PWAs so do everything from my browser or the first party mobile app, but I completely get why people like mail clients
Any Microsoft-owned/created/run mail clients released or redesigned in the last decade or so is always clunky for me. Laggy, clunky, unintuitive, random features vanish, etc etc
Yeah I hate today’s mail desktop clients. Everything got worse with the introduction of “the ribbon” and that becoming the defacto user experience. I use the web clients too and mobile apps but I still don’t like them compared to my old school 2000s “I only want to use a keyboard to solve this most basic of mundane tasks” approach.
Maybe I should build a client for myself, but then that’ll fall into the hundreds of other projects I should start…
I don’t think you’re alone in that! I’m sure someone would’ve made a mail client you like as a passion project already!
I’ve only ever used the browser, so I’m too used to it to mind personally
Yeah there are, there’s even vim based clients for people who really want the brick all of a learning curve hehe…
If you’ve grown up with web based ones that understandable, but know that you’re talking to someone who started writing code as a child in the early 90s so any minor frustration you feel when a behaviour is unexpected or janky is amplified thousands of % for me as I know I could fix it but don’t work there to be able to fix it. My partner is also a senior dev so you can imagine how much we rant about little things like this haha