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Mozilla refactors messaging with Raindrop

Posted Oct 29, 2009 11:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Mozilla refactors messaging with Raindrop

In one sense, Raindrop is designed to function as a "grand unified inbox" aggregating email, instant messaging, and a wide range of site-specific message channels.

You mean, like Gnus does, only Gnus gives you NNTP rather than IM?

It's always easy to rethink things by thinking of things that people have already done more than a decade ago :)

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Mozilla refactors messaging with Raindrop

Posted Nov 6, 2009 14:37 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

It was, maybe, independent discovery. That's just like for every pop song
there is already a similar piece by the Beatles.

Plus I have the feeling that this is more about the presentation of this
gazillion of messages. Sure, Gnus can dump everything, regardless of
where it comes from (nnstatusnet anyone?) into a nnvirtual group, but
that doesn't make things easy to find visually.

Mozilla refactors messaging with Raindrop

Posted Nov 6, 2009 16:03 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh yes, the *presentation* is undoubtedly better. :)