Yes, Google Groups is used for much more than emails. That's not the point of th...

lelandfe · on March 8, 2023

I believe the subtext of that comment is that they feel it can't be "left to die" as Groups is too important in the ecosystem.

jks · on March 8, 2023

Yes, but for those purposes it doesn't matter if the email features are left to die, such as the monospace fonts that don't render or the message read/unread status that's flaky.

tylerhou · on March 8, 2023

People send emails with monospace fonts to internal Google Groups all the time. If there is a bug in the external Groups, there likely? is a bug in the internal Groups. If that's true, then it will be fixed soon.

The internal read/unread indicator has always been janky as well. But the point is that Google depends too much on Groups internally to let it die.

lrem · on March 8, 2023

I find it surprising that people use the groups webapp as a way to read the email. Isn't your email client more convenient?

Disclaimer: I'm a Googler, but never beem responsible for anything close to Groups.

uni_rule · on March 9, 2023

I think the main part that the article is referring to is the decaying remains of Dejanews specifically and the historically relevant usenet archived therein. That part seems to have no actual maintainer.