Some people talk about mailing lists with a lot of reverence, but I have only ever found them to be extremely ugly and unreadable.

Are there any good clients out there that make them readable? For example a lemmy-like, threaded interface with interactivity? Or for PR/MRs an interface that shows the diffs with syntax highlighting, toggleable unified and side by side diff views, ability to comment within diffs and continue discussions within them (maybe even threaded)?

  • onlinepersona@programming.devOP
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    1 month ago

    If you hate having information delivered as text, you are never going to love mailing lists.

    Wdym? I’m reading text right now. We are interacting with text right now. It has formatting, has linking, has syntax highlighting, all depending on the client.

    key: value
object:
  key: value

    All this exists in lemmy and I love it.

    A lot of other metadata exists in emails too:

    • identities
    • timing
    • person being responded to

    Even reactions could be implemented via email e.g if the response body is a single emoji --> reaction.