It used to be free 1GB of mailbox storage that kept expanding for free. Now there is a hard limit unless you pay.
I don’t think anybody expected that to last forever. That said, the free limit is still way more than enough for most people. I’ve got 20 years of emails in my account, and I’m just barely past my free limit.
It used to be free 1GB of mailbox storage that kept expanding for free.
Within a week you could tell there was a set maximum, the speed of increase steadily fell the higher the storage value got. It was a good marketing ploy, but there was never a “forever expanding” promise made.
Still this requires different directories for the hardlinks to be in the filesystem, and there’s not an easy way given a file to list all “labels” that file has, without checking other directories for files with the same inode.
20 years on, I still prefer folders instead of labels. And I still don’t want messages group as “conversations.”
It used to be free 1GB of mailbox storage that kept expanding for free. Now there is a hard limit unless you pay.
I’ll just leave this here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
claw back that value!
Did you read the article you referenced?
Or maybe I’m just not seeing the connection.
The cycle is:
They’re describing how nice step 1 was.
I don’t think anybody expected that to last forever. That said, the free limit is still way more than enough for most people. I’ve got 20 years of emails in my account, and I’m just barely past my free limit.
Within a week you could tell there was a set maximum, the speed of increase steadily fell the higher the storage value got. It was a good marketing ploy, but there was never a “forever expanding” promise made.
What if a message covers 2 different topics?
IMHO the entire OS should be based around files and labels, not files and folders.
On Linux file systems it basically is. A file name is just a label for an inode, and the same inode can have as many file names as you want.
Still this requires different directories for the hardlinks to be in the filesystem, and there’s not an easy way given a file to list all “labels” that file has, without checking other directories for files with the same inode.
findhas a way to search by inode.