Next-generation Proton Mail mobile apps: more than meets the eye | Proton (proton.me)

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

I was really hoping this would come with an announcement of an F-Droid compatible client.

Honestly, I'm paying them and the lack of a Google-less client is really getting to me. Now that the US is openly behaving like an adversary to the EU (as opposed to pretending to be a friend), cutting the cord to the US is becoming more and more important.

If they don't release an F-Droid compatible client this year, I'm cancelling my subscription and moving to a simple SMTP+IMAP provider. Their reluctance to degoogle has rubbed me the wrong way for years now.

P.S And the fact that they stay on threads @protonprivacy@www.threads.net instead of mastodon is also another reason I want to leave.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 hours ago

I don't know what was going on behind the scenes but as a user of their mail app it felt barebones. So to see them working on a full rewrite for years instead of moving forward is kinda surprising. Like bro its a mail app features are more important than speed or memory safety.

[-] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

to me, a reliable, and efficient mail client is more important that a bunch of features.

Just my option though.

[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Their wanting to add features over all platforms is the reason they did the rewrite. Implementing consistent features over web, Android and iOS without a common codebase is a waste of engineering time and would've led to bad quality over the years.

[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

They only just got swipe capability for going from one email to the next in the app. I'm super happy it happened but damn it took long enough.

[-] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

I've been happy to see proton begin trending in what I see as the right direction (for me as a consumer). Between this uplift and finally talking drive for Linux it's been a happy couple of weeks.