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by omnibrain12 hours ago |
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upvoteby Pxtl11 hours ago|
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I'm working on same for my family since I want to properly degoogle a bit. One thing I think long term - if I give my kids first-name @ last name , that means that I forever hold power over their email. Which isn't great. But what's the alternative? Register one full domain name per kid? Even ignoring the cost, the ergonomics are awful.

Imho email is missing a feature for nameless email addresses for when somebody just buys their full name as a domain name. If I get "firstname-lastname.name", having the email be "firstname@firstname-lastname.name' kinda ruins it.

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upvoteby londons_explore11 hours ago|
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A child born today sees email like we see the telegraph...

they'll grumpily sign up to gmail just so they can get a verification email, and that'll be all it gets used for. Messaging their irl friends will be done in apps like Discord.

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upvoteby peezd10 hours ago|
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Truth.

lol I ran a sizeable team around 2020 and I had to educate a couple of our new hires straight from college that they actually needed to check their work email, after they missed important HR related stuff and they had just completely not realized it was an avenue for company communication, with an assumption that everything was available on our heavily used slack.

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upvoteby xp849 hours ago|
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tbh I'm with the zoomers on this one. Work email is 99% junk. Newsletters from every SaaS product we use, "A meeting started", invitations for calendar events that I can just accept ON the calendar, notifications for every transaction on every system ("X posted a comment on Y,") and spam from salespeople, recruiters, etc. And then 1% of it is actionable important stuff that I don't get through Slack.
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upvoteby londons_explore9 hours ago|
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Email died because of the junk/spam issue. And it's self-fulfilling - when most emails are junk, nobody sends a love-letter or party invitation by email because the recipient probably won't notice it, which in turn lowers the usefulness even further.

If email was a commercial product, the company would have done something about that. Email died because it was an open platform, with nobody to address this systematic issue.

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upvoteby megagpt26 hours ago|
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upvoteby skinfaxi11 hours ago|
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From what I can tell most people do something like me@myname.whatever or hi@domain.
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upvoteby kennywinker11 hours ago|
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Not to mention some of those kids may end up changing their names at some point if they get married and decide to take their partner’s last name.
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upvoteby Pxtl10 hours ago|
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Aside: I'm honestly bewildered that Google doesn't have the ability to handle that in gmail accounts. If somebody gets married or otherwise needs to change their name, their answer is "just make a new google account" when all your stuff is still tied to the old account.
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upvoteby avarun9 hours ago|
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They rolled this out in March this year in the US (and December last year in India).

I've successfully renamed an old account with an email address I no longer liked. It works quite well on everything 1st party, but does have the potential of causing issues with OAuth on poorly-coded websites that key on email instead of user ID (ie. most of them). You do get to keep your old email address though, so it still ends up working fine in practice.

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upvoteby Pxtl8 hours ago|
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Holy crap really? Yay! I know a couple of trans folks that will be ecstatic.
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upvoteby ocdtrekkie1 hours ago|
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The feature is about fifteen years too late for me, unfortunately. By this point I need this feature to let me "merge Google accounts". But then I barely use Google anything anymore anyways.
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upvoteby megagpt26 hours ago|
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