You have some points, for some I do think it isn't as bad as you write. FWIW, some comments inline. > - You can't subscribe to a single PR/bug/feature-request thread. Subscription to the mailing list is all-or-nothing. And no, setting up email filters is not a reasonable solution. You can use tools like public-inbox or lei, the former is hosted for bigger projects on https://lore.kernel.org/ If you're interested,... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

> Another problem is how badly email threading is displayed in these clients. Email UI is still abysmal. Fair point. However, given that the current alternative is "use another service entirely (e.g. GitHub)", I think it would be fair to assume that devs could choose a good e-mail client and learn how to format such e-mails correctly. It works for Linux, for instance. I started using Aerc, and I love it:... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

For fans of Mutt/NeoMutt looking to try something new, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of Aerc[1] and can recommend it as a somewhat more approachable alternative for the Mutt-curious. [1] https://aerc-mail.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Try aerc, I recently set it up and it was really easy to do. The only tricky part was making it so my password is read from the KDE wallet instead of being stored as plain text in the config file. Source: over 1 year ago

I'm not sure how much longer, but at least for me aerc still works with Outlook e-mails. Source: over 1 year ago

ICQ is still around, I’m not sure how much it’s in use, but it’s still there :-). Source: over 1 year ago

You know it's still around? I logged in with my 8 digit UIN a few years back and boom, back on. Of course none of my contacts have been seen "for a very long time". Source: over 1 year ago

ICQ.com still works, I still have my mid 90s UIN. Although I haven't had a contact online in forever. Good memories! Source: over 1 year ago

And another far-from-original variant is still kicking, aptly named ‘ICQ’ [1]. AOL sold off its ICQ assets to Digital Sky Technologies (now Mail.ru) group [2] which continues to develop and invest in it to this day. From what I understand, like LiveJournal (acquired similarly by a Russian company Rambler [3], ICQ continues to have a sizable user base in Eastern Europe from what I gather. [1] https://icq.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago