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0 pointstoast01y ago0 comments

> You HAVE to do https which means you need a certificate.

This is kind of true, but, getting a cert isn't a big deal anymore. If you're not a big company, a free cert works fine.

> You HAVE to have a CDN and CloudFlare protection or else you'll be slashdot-effected or DDoS'd to oblivion.

DDoS is hard to manage, but otherwise it shouldn't be too hard to handle a /. kind of event if your page is reasonable and you make use of the abundance of modern computing... 1G cheap hosting is out there.

> You can't even run an email server anymore without jumping through the hoops it takes to convince major providers you're not a spam farm.

Yeah, this one sucks a lot. But, email is dead, so...

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MrVandemar1y ago· 6 in thread

> But, email is dead, so...

What an extraordinary claim!

My job, today, is dealing with a vast influx of various types of email that all need categorising and a range of different actions. Not very dead at all from where I'm standing.

noirscape1y ago

Email will never die, no matter how much most people want it to do so. The protocol is arguably the best proof of "worse is better", which is why it's held out for so long.

Dalewyn1y ago

Depending on if you work or not, I feel there's a bigly dissonance in the perceived prevalence of email, phone calls, and other such traditional(?) channels of communique.

Most of them have clearly died in private life, but in the professional life you will be literally worthless if you aren't reachable by email, telephone, snail mail, perhaps even the fax machine.

afpx1y ago

Unless there’s something important, I check my email about once a week these days. Otherwise it’s just for authentication.

ta12431y ago

Work vs leisure.

I rarely send emails for leisure, but I send and receive dozens a day for work, both internal and external.

Cthulhu_1y ago

It's like claiming Skype is dead but my last job was at a small company with many international customers and Skype was still their daily driver for international calls.

metalman1y ago

I see the above discussion as a describing a process, very much like evolution, with web sites bieng the species of interest, and how they are bieng shaped by, internal competition, for resouces (and prey), errr food, preditors, parisites, and environomental changes. neat!

Aardwolf1y ago

> Yeah, this one sucks a lot. But, email is dead, so...

Really? These days, can't even login to some services (like Steam) without them sending you an email to confirm the login (some services even do this even if you already have other 2FA...)

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