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londons_explore on Feb 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bye, Bye, Google

Gmail was launched in 2004, and now 15 years later, the standards haven't caught up with something to support a widely used feature...

ocdtrekkie on Feb 4, 2019 [–]

Our standards haven't meaningfully changed in over 15 years, JMAP may be the first good attempt at doing so.

I wouldn't say labels are widely used, Gmail is still really the only provider doing them I know of. It's just that that one provider is a monopoly.

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