It actually does get solved with other systems. I can tell you that because I worked within Google platform for over a decade in the same industry, add with differs companies/environments and probably invested a total of 1-2 hours collectively in thought and setup deliberately for that system. It worked, and it improved over time.

Especially when outlook does things like give a notification that you’ve replied to a thread on a given date, but clicking that text doesn’t jump to that mentioned reply AND the reply in question is not shown in line with the message you responded to.

I’m the last person to champion Google, but in comparison, Gmail handles conversational email threads intuitively and without deliberate setup or skill required. It follows the logical human expectation for the course of a natural conversation between parties. It also collapses less recent messages and surfaces more recent, relevant ones on longer term threads. But everything is logical and accessible.

I have a list a mile long of little features that have blocked me day to day in outlook mail and calendar that break productivity flow compared to gmail. They require deliberate setup and a learning curve to get something that feels close to usable and even then, glaring omissions in the product.

If your work isn’t very complex and you don’t communicate often (i.e. You’re coding all day or reading/responding jira tickets), I can see you having that take. If you’re forced to interact with these systems constantly though, it is objective trash. It’s stale and afraid to change due to enterprise malaise and already approved workflows with said broken system.

I fucking hate it every day.

Yes, and I know it’s counter to the core motivations of this movement, but probably need a centralized repository for donation that can be a universal door for funds that can then be distributed to vulnerable, but active, instances. Needs to be run by a collective of reps from instances meeting a minimum threshold of support for the community. Also needs to be nimble enough to revoke funding is an instance takes a hard evil turn.

Or maybe just an app/site that recommends a distribution of a set monthly amount (e.g. 30 bucks) to the instances you use the most as a user?

I can’t imagine there is a good business, that communicates effectively, that is room in Microsoft Outlook.

I never appreciated Google’s productivity software until I was forced to use Microsoft’s at a large company. People just openly accept this broken system and the fact that they’ll miss important communications and spend far too much time accounting for the SW’s shortcomings.

FUCK Microsoft Outlook. The executives making decisions for the team’s designing and maintaining that product are committing crimes against humanity.

Be advised: the methods given here to make things like wine and jam are missing crucial steps in process. They are going to taste bad at best and at worst… a lot of food borne illnesses in the future of anyone who takes advice here at face value.

Canning and wine making are very specific processes.

How is a rant about billionaires and greed ever a thing to shy away from? The class war and it’s associated wealth inequality/endless growth mentality are essential drivers to the climate change problem that’s keeping you up at night. You can’t disconnect the two if you actually want the problem addressed.

You know… Strikes and gutters

Does the conversation have a US app? I only see a French version?