This is the best summary I could come up with:
Losing your email address can be a nightmare, as it can feel almost impossible to chase down every service you’ve tied to your account.
A sign-off reads, “We look forward to continuing to serve you,” so it’s easy to assume that the service will keep running.
You only learn about the impending shutdown after scrolling down, clicking the small “migrate your data” link at the bottom of the page, and opening the first FAQ answer.
Burying the lede under all the self-congratulatory acquisition news makes Skiff users look like a disposable afterthought.
Publicly, the company is committed to users and privacy, but those VCs needed a return on their investment.
With Skiff, there will now presumably be an email service, putting Notion pretty close to Google Workspace or Office 365.
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Big recommend for ProtonMail for anyone looking where to migrate to
Until Proton gets acquired too.
Hopefully doesn’t happen but we’ll see!
It’s a startup that was financed by a Swiss startup fund. I don’t know if the founders are really that idealistic as to say no to a bunch of millions, but even if they are it may be out of their hands. If a buyer with the right price comes along I think it’s going to happen.
Proton is 10 years old, so it’s hardly a startup anymore. It was crowdfunded and is mostly led/owned by cern scientists (inventors of the www) and also financed/owned by a swiss non profit focused on helping startups, which in turn is financed by the swiss government (geneva to be exact)
Skiff was founded in the US by americans.
Do you see the difference?
You can say that about literally anything.
Well not everything, we’re talking about encrypted mail services. Skiff being acquired proves that there’s a market for buying and selling such a thing. And if someone’s interested then Proton should be an even more attractive target (albeit more expensive):
It’s a startup, so it will look for an exit at some point. It has built a large user base and good word of mouth. It’s currently working on locking down the ability to take your mail elsewhere.
It’s ripe for plucking and squeezing and it will happen sometime this year IMO.
lol
I got an email with them when they blew up. Told myself it’d be a good place to go when I ditch Google.
😔
Oh well.
This is why you want your own domain, providers aren’t nearly reliable enough…
So what is the point of acquiring them if they just dismantle the company? Seems stupid unless it’s funded by the CIA or something.
No need to look for a conspiracy, this sort of thing happens all the time to all sorts of companies. Maybe it’s a patent they want, maybe they want the talent, maybe they want the assets, maybe they want to remove a competitor… It’s really not that unusual.
You’re right, if it was an intelligence service they’d want the service to continue while they have a backdoor.
Switched to Proton last week. Currently paying for Mail Plus. Happy so far. I do wish they make the mail app icon MY3 compatible.
