On: Use plaintext email

[scrollaway]

This isn't a thing, which makes me think you're arguing in bad faith.

Clients load images asynchronously, and no personal email is sent with a logo and catchphrase header. I've never seen that in my entire life and I've been using email with a lot of people, for a long time.

Formatting is an issue however, and the addition of formatting to email can be useful and add to the conversation.

To take the hn example again, the text portion of your comment is broken on mobile because hn doesn't support proper formatting. This has made your comment harder to read.

[jefftk → zepolen]

The post is arguing that individuals should switch to sending traditional plain text email, and recommending mail clients that support it well.

Yes, many companies make painful HTML emails, but that's orthagonal to this discussion.

[michaelmrose → scrollaway]

I'm not the original poster however I do believe that the guidelines say to assume good faith.

>Clients load images asynchronously

Many clients actually don't load images by default for privacy reasons requiring another click.

Even if not one reasonably assumes that the image may be relevant and waits for it to load. Half the planet also has a pretty slow connection.

>To take the hn example again, the text portion of your comment is broken on mobile

You see the whole thing either turn your phone sideways or scroll sideways.