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Goodbye Skiff

It was fun while it lasted. The recent addition of PGP support was very welcome, and I thought that such support might have been a sign that they were in it for the long-term with the email product, but I thought wrong.

Dear Skiff Community,

We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion.

Skiff's mission is to bring freedom to the internet by helping people collaborate and communicate with freedom and privacy. We see a deep alignment with Notion’s vision to build a connected workspace and enable everyone to build tools that reflect their values.

We’re extremely excited to accelerate our mission by joining forces with Notion’s world-class team. We sincerely hope that the Skiff community will join us for this next stage of our journey. We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online lives freer and more empowered, and these plans will carry forward directly the ambitions we’ve strived for alongside the Skiff community.

As we begin to shift focus to our shared efforts with Notion, we will be closing down Skiff's product suite after a 6-month sunset period We are deeply appreciative of the trust users have extended to us, and we are committed to honoring that trust by ensuring that all data on Skiff is easily exportable. For the next 6 months, Skiff services will continue to operate without disruption, and users can freely duplicate, migrate, or export data. You can now also set up a forwarding address to redirect mail to any other provider.

Our commitment to privacy and security is unchanged. All user data remains end-to-end encrypted, and Skiff products will never monetize your data. Accounts and data on Skiff will not be converted into Notion accounts.

We encourage you to export your data and migrate custom domains within the next 6 months. We’ve prepared this guide to make that process as easy as possible. For any other questions, our support team is readily available via the in-app “Send feedback” option or at support@skiff.org.

The Skiff community has lifted, inspired, and energized us at every step. We are humbled by your support and we apologize for any disappointment or inconvenience this change may cause you. We remain as committed as ever to bringing about the vision for a better internet that brought us together. Thank you for being part of the Skiff family, and we look forward to continuing to serve you with our future efforts.

Sincerely,
Skiff Team

ashtrix ,

So glad I didn't switch my email to them but sad that another promising service is gone.

Yesbutnotreally ,

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  • noodlejetski ,

    Even if he was sometimes right, it always came off as skiffy

    KrapKake ,

    Came here looking for this, I just got the email. I do not use their email service as a main email, so I wont be missing a lot. Still disappointing however, but not really surprised.

    Sassy ,

    I was really enjoying using Skiff Pages as an alternative to Google Docs. Glad I didn’t get more entrenched before they pulled this stunt. So disappointing.

    velox_vulnus ,

    The mobile apps were garbage to begin with. So you were never going to go that deep in the first place. Even the basic copy-and-paste does not work. And it was damn slow.

    Steve ,
    @Steve@communick.news avatar

    If they're joining Notion, does that mean Notion is looking to add encrypted services?

    ErwinLottemann ,

    lol. no.

    Tangent5280 ,

    Lmao no. At best, Notion bought them out to make their own email hosting solution. Worst case, notion bought them out to run the company into the ground to fuck their competition.

    hperrin ,

    I run an email service, and it seems pretty awful to me to sell your company and not stipulate that the email domain should be migrated to another provider. Forcing your users to migrate away from their addresses is really rude.

    ChaoticEntropy ,
    @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

    It is some bullshit, to be sure. Basically a middle finger as they waltz out the door.

    "Show yourself out."

    Cheradenine ,

    We’re pursuing big plans for making all of our online lives freer and more empowered, and these plans will carry forward directly the ambitions we’ve strived for alongside the Skiff community.

    That's some nice corporate speak right there.

    Tangent5280 ,

    Fuck this guy and fuck Notion too.

    morrowind ,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    Oh come on, I was just about to move my calendar there from outlook

    Anyone know of another privacy friendly calendar that has a nice and lightweight desktop app?

    jgkawell ,
    @jgkawell@lemmy.world avatar

    Haven't used it yet, but Proton has a beta desktop app that might be what you're looking for.

    LunchEnjoyer ,

    Mailbox.org

    morrowind ,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    I don't see any desktop app on their site

    LunchEnjoyer ,

    Ah my bad, it doesn't have that itself, however: there is Thunderbird 🐦

    morrowind ,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    I'm assuming that would requiring using caldav or whatever, thus no more encryption

    morrowind ,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    Just checked their gh, it's an electron app :(

    fuzzzerd ,

    While it is an electron app, it's a pretty decent one. Because it's not full of tracking and other crap it's pretty responsive.

    Their web and mobile apps are pretty good. Its definitely not as polished as gsuite or office, but it's still good and you are the customer not the product.

    Outtatime ,
    @Outtatime@sh.itjust.works avatar

    At this point, to remain anonymous online, you may as well not even get online anymore.

    mindbleach ,

    We are excited to share that Skiff is joining Notion.

    Our Incredible Journey.

    long_chicken_boat ,

    They never cared for privacy, it was all marketing. We should be equally suspicious of Proton and Tutanota.

    Yesbutnotreally ,

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  • DmMacniel ,

    I second that question

    LemoineFairclough ,

    It's probably about as likely that other email service providers will shut down (or at least make the service they provide worse) unexpectedly.

    A more sustainable solution would be to make it easier to self-host similar services and giving your contacts more help with transitioning to more privacy-respecting solutions.

    I'm personally not very worried about proton.me or tuta.com shutting down without giving me much time to replace them, but it's a possibility I keep in mind as it would be inconvenient if that happened, and I can do a little bit to make it less inconvenient if it does happen (e.g. by registering alternate email addresses with any person or company who wants to talk to me).

    Ascend910 ,

    The enshitfication is real

    delirious_owl ,
    @delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

    If the data is encrypted client-side, why does this matter?

    darkmatternoodlecow ,

    Ran it through the corpo parseltongue translator.

    https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/fdd94a5a-d0e0-4c3b-8468-5430989904df.png

    Pantherina ,

    Where to get that ? XD

    pyre ,

    you can use the exact same image for an accurate translation of most corpo bs

    InterSynth ,
    @InterSynth@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I was using their quick aliases all the time to get free Adobe trials. Is there any alternative? Gmail's "+" aliases are detected as aliases, Skiff was unpopular enough that they hadn't blacklisted them.

    GustavoFring ,

    Proton supports quick aliases as well.

    phoneymouse ,

    Do they have unlimited quick aliases?

    GustavoFring ,

    Yes, referring to the '+' aliases.

    phoneymouse ,

    Oh, those are less handy because they still give away your email address

    GustavoFring ,

    Agreed, they provide 10 masked aliases for free and it's $2/mo for unlimited via Proton Pass.

    phoneymouse ,

    Yeah, skiff was nice because you got pretty much unlimited quick aliases for free. No need to pre-register them. Basically, you could make one for every company you make an account with:

    Ex.
    somecompany@mysubdomain.maskmy.id

    Makes it easy to shut down anyone that doesn’t let you unsubscribe (ie. politicians).

    pathief ,
    @pathief@lemmy.world avatar

    Proton Pass is the same, it's instant. You just need to pay to get an unlimited amount of them. Great feature, integrates nicely with register forms as well.

    GustavoFring ,

    Wasn't Skiff also limited to 10 alises though on the free tier?

    InterSynth ,
    @InterSynth@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    10 active ones. You could delete the ones you didn't need anymore.

    phoneymouse ,

    Could be.. I paid the $3.50/month and it was included with email, drive, calendar, pages, etc. Really wish proton just included it with their email price instead of requiring you to use ProtonPass or signing up for the more expensive SimpleLogin too.

    beetus ,

    Fastmail supports aliases as well. I'm not sure how they are from a privacy side overall tho

    nnjethro ,

    Buy your own domain and set it up to forward all email to a single address. Then anything@your.domain is like an alias.

    shootwhatsmyname ,
    @shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee avatar

    addy.io is another alternative

    Jayb151 ,

    I might just be dumb... But does this mean that in 6 months I just don't have an email there anymore? I didn't see any kind of messaging about transitioning services, just like, 'grab what you can and GTFO.'

    lemmyreader ,

    But does this mean that in 6 months I just don’t have an email there anymore?

    Yes, sounds like it. I can imagine that they have decided for this path, instead of a server migration Skiff->Notion, to make sure that previous non paying Skiff users do pay at Notion if they choose for Notion.

    CrypticCoffee , (edited )

    Always felt shifty with their marketing attempts "hey, this looks really cool. It has this extensive list of features. I've not tried it, what do you think?".

    Feels I was right to be skeptical. Email is sensitive information and not something you can quickly jump to new shiny thing in town. Proton mail is king for me, but at least Tuta been around a while.

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