Emails don’t need to work like text messages. Why are reactions even a thing for them?
I like the idea - I don’t want to send you an email back, here’s a thumbs up to show I’ve received it.
I hate the execution because I get an email telling me you reacted to my email.
If it isn’t the first email you’ve ever exchanged, why can’t you just plan for the fact that they got your email and if they drop the ball the fault is not yours?
“I’m sending you this thing, if anything is wrong please let me know; otherwise I will assume all is agreed and we can move forward.”
No response required. Stay off my lawn, don’t send me an email or a text or anything else that just says “ok”. Maybe I’m showing my age…
Nailed it. This is how email works.
If you want to ensure i de-prioritise your request, request a read receipt or send a follow up email the next day.
If you don’t want me to ever do anything for you promptly ever again call me to check whether I got your email.
I know a guy that calls before the email even reaches my inbox. “I just sent you an email…”
We end up waiting on the phone until I say “oh, there it is”. To which he asks “what do you think”. So I have to stop the world and read the fucking thing while he’s waiting on the phone so I can give him a comment…
That is the most stupid use of time ever.
I’m not sure what you even want then. If an email can’t be delivered you should get a kickback notifications saying it can’t be delivered. Though, that may depend on the email service.
Ans if you’re effectively looking for a read-receipt, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want to be notified of it. I don’t want to have to manually check anything to see if there is new information to look at. An email may be overkill, but 🤷.
Not everyone wants read receipt notifications for everything. It is much easier if it is manual just like message reactions. So reaction is the best solution here. But as the user stated, its execution is not the best.
A simple indication on the email in the sidebar list would be fine. A whole ass new email is just a bit much.
same reason there is a poop emoji in a “professional” messaging app… MS is idiotic and out of ideas
MS with that “hello, fellow kids” energy.
Or, and I know this is hard for all of you, not everyone has a stick up their asses and try to make it through the day with some light-hearted fun and it’s an expected feature.
If you’re so servile that you feel non-zero discomfort if you don’t assure people you read their email, you might be better suited to a career in shining shoes.
“I get my socializing exclusively at work. I actually enjoy meetings that could have been an email.”
100%
You can blame Unicode for that.
Yeah, you won’t see the poop emoji in Linux or LibreOffice! 🤦🏻♂️
(Unicode block: U+1F4A9)
My work uses outlook and I still get a whole fuckin email saying “Dipshit has reacted 👍” and it’s extremely irritating. I’ll need to remember to turn off reactions on Monday.
I need a shirt that says “dipshit has reacted 👍”
I disabled it as soon as they were launched. I also disabled the quick reply, reactions, and to text messages etc.
I will say, it’s practical for everyone using the same system. Sometimes it’s nice to acknowledge an email without having to respond to it
And when I had my school account, they’d send out phishing alerts of what to look out for. Those emails would be spammed with crying laughing emojis
In the case of Outlook, read receipts are a thing if the sender wants at least an acknowledgement. True that the receiver can just click no on the option to send that receipt, but presumably they’re also the type that wouldn’t have sent a reaction to the email in the first place.
Hey let’s all change what we do and how we do it to accommodate the monopoly Microsoft. Again.
Don’t forget to add a string to your wifi ssid so Microsoft doesn’t index it.
And if you don’t want Google to index it you need to use a different string, and it must be placed at the end.
good thing i dont talk to anyone and i only get emails from companies, spam, and appointments. this would annoy the fuck outta me.
you got it!
I got a thumbs-up reply to an email once and immediately looked up how to block it.
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I fucking guarantee you that Microsofts reasoning for this feature is to again force people to use their shit software.
Oh, don’t want those spam mails? Yeaaaahhh, you need to switch to outlook for that.
Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email
Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email
I’m guessing you probably don’t realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.
Surprise, you get the spam even if you use Outlook.
Thankfully we’ve not yet upgraded from Outlook 2016… saving this for if we ever do.
Coming from a neurodivergent: fuck Microsoft for doing this. It does not go along well with how email should work, makes it confusing for several reasons and shits over a lot of expectations.
According to their history, this is the extend part.
Reactions are great. They allow for feedback without adding to the pile of email everyone already gets.
i agree reactions can be useful, but adding them to email the way Microsoft has is obnoxious for recipients using any client other than theirs. and, i think this is probably their intention: receiving an email reaction in a client that doesn’t render it as a reaction feels wrong and MS probably hopes this will encourage some people to switch to using Outlook.
the right way to add reactions to email would be to make it opt-in (and also not a vendor-specific header but instead something which aims to become a standard): clients should only allow reactions to messages which contain a header signaling that the sender supports receiving them.
In most office environments I’ve worked at there is no option for using another email client.
but email is used specifically for receipts, otherwise messaging would be used
I realize that this is up to the user and that choice is great, so the issue comes down to implementation. and as a user… I find out far after the fact that somebody reacted to my email because outlook doesn’t show me those notifications in a timely manner, nor am I going to look for them because I consider that a chat feature and Microsoft already sends me enough notification spam
“Thanks.”
One of my most hated email message bodies.
Better to read and don’t reply, or send a message and expect it was received IMO
If it’s worth replying, write a reply. I do not need a notification from anyone of a round asshole flashing different colors and gyrating because you casually agree in a congratulatory fashion.
Ok but the point is, if anyone isn’t using Outlook they do get a pointless email. My workplace doesn’t use Outlook and I get tons of these. I’m glad to have learnt I can block them though.
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Is there a way to use this in Apple Mail?
YSK, it’s a terrible OS that should be murdered.
You realize this is referring to email?
The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.
Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it
All the more reason to point out at every opportunity when they have 2 different things they’d love people to treat as one.
