Please open source Carakan and Presto - don't let them rot, and us hackers have what to learn with them (and potentially do with them). GPL is fine, and may let you still monetize it.
(And ... it's not like it's giving you any advantage - you've switched away from both)
Missing CardDAV/CalDav sync ability is sorely missing, so it's good to see the developers talking about it.
I'd also like to see (and would pay for) options where the data is located in other countries, away from the United States. It's really symbolic, but also practical: I'd like my data closer to where I live.
Currently I'm fine having that live in owncloud, but should fastmail start supporting it, I may want to sync these data-sets.
Not sure I want to move everything into one place and one place only though. If it was one thing my migration from Google Apps taught me, it was that having too much stuff auto-integrated in one place makes it much harder to have control of your own data.
It severely limits your options to mix and mash best of breed services as you see fit.
Moving to webkit just let them focus on what actually made them unique to their customers.
Still a shame they dropped Presto, though.
Not sure what you mean. Just FYI : at least on Android phones, among FF, Chrome, Opera (and the default browser), Opera's text flow is the best by far. You can zoom in and read any article on any site, and it does just the right thing. There is honestly an element of fear when you use Firefox for the same thing: it's absolutely unpredictable what it will do when you zoom in. I can sympathize with the developers since the re-layout of a page, figuring out whether the user wants to zoom in on the text or the image, etc; may be quite difficult. Opera Mobile has seemingly perfected this over years and years.
I can understand why they switched and focused on value added features.
I am thinking Opera want to be acquired?
My guess is they're trying going for a niche product and are focusing on what's important to them rather than try to get their feet wet in every market.
To spend more time with their family?
They also built-out data centre capacity, including facilities in Iceland.
So all around I think FM benefited greatly from the three years under Opera, though I'm not convinced the reverse is true.
> the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none.
Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit - I'm not a US citizen and I don't like it in principle. I did have a pretty good expectation of privacy until they started doing that, because no-one else has the resources to do a similar whole-take surveillance effort.
Anyway, I signed up for Fastmail because I thought it was foreign to the USA (though later found out the servers are hosted in NYC - doh).
But seriously, I'd love to see an end to the "oh well" attitude. The stance I do take is "you're spying on and profiling me? Fuck you I'm leaving". And that helps me sleep at night, for better or worse.
I'd love to get this confirmed, and some news on when I can expect to have my account hosted in Europe.
US datacenters is pretty much a no-no these days.
I suppose an argument might be made in favour of Germany -- but I'd be surprised if they don't have a similar infrastructure in place for wire-tapping as we know know is in place in the US. UK and France is out. Russia is an open spyocracy of sorts. Iceland?
Unfortunately, there are increasingly few nations which will refuse US et al spying "requests."
[0]: https://twitter.com/FastMailFM/status/382100278415081473
Simply out of USA/UK jurisdiction would be good, as they're now demonstrably the worst in the West (at least it would certainly seem so based on recent news trends). So, anywhere else.
Plus, it's sunny!
Oh god, yes. This was annoying as hell. I actually liked their service but at the end of the month I didn't think I was using email enough to justify paying 40 bucks a year, so I decided to keep using the one I got for free when I got a domain. But even if I was going to buy, I wouldn't have just because of this harrassment. Here's a screenshot from my inbox: http://i.imgur.com/meNhlAr.png (there are some more that couldn't fit into the screenshot)
I cannot recommend them less. Shabby treatment of potential customers.
Here we are now, and the rest of the net has caught up to mobile access, mostly. Though my initial reasons for using Fastmail have become moot points, I'll continue to use my Fastmail accounts with fond memories and hope for improved resistance to governments' exceeding their mandates.
This is from the perspective of using Chrome on high end hardware, but I couldn't ask for a better web interface.
That said, they aren't joking about needing a new mobile interface: the current one is usable, but definitely lacks the same polish as the desktop version.
(I made this!)
There's two apps in the Play store, one for CardDAV[1] and one for CalDAV[2].
That setup works for me.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.cardd...
[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.calda...
FastMail provides me with mail accounts for $10/year[2] that provide enough storage for 180 days and include required features like custom domain names, domain aliases, email aliases, etc.
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...
