I appreciate that the data is still available via IMAP. But, it feels fastmail is slowly drifting towards the inevitable enshittification. Maybe that is a bit harsh but still. Some things that have been bothering me in recent months:
- It is not possible to prepay anymore. I used to have at least a year's worth of credit to make sure the account doesn't lapse if I get incapacitated on renewal time
- If a paid account stops, the email address eventually becomes up for grabs for someone else
- The monthly calendar view does not scroll smoothly anymore. Instead it now jumps to full days or months and it makes scrolling through it a badly jagged experience. It used to be so smooth and the best calendar view of any service, ever. Now, it's just as annoying as everything else.
- The calendar view now greys out the month that isn't current. Again making scrolling through the year a worse experience.
I'm sure there are justifications for all changes. But for me things like this make me go from "Fastmail is awesome!" to "Meh, it's email and it's alright". Saying that as someone who has been a paying user for many years.
Use your own ___domain so your address ownership is separate from your mail ownership. I keep everything with different companies: webhost, mail, ___domain registrar, etc.
- It is not possible to prepay anymore. I used to have at least a year's worth of credit to make sure the account doesn't lapse if I get incapacitated on renewal time
- If a paid account stops, the email address eventually becomes up for grabs for someone else
- The monthly calendar view does not scroll smoothly anymore. Instead it now jumps to full days or months and it makes scrolling through it a badly jagged experience. It used to be so smooth and the best calendar view of any service, ever. Now, it's just as annoying as everything else.
- The calendar view now greys out the month that isn't current. Again making scrolling through the year a worse experience.
I'm sure there are justifications for all changes. But for me things like this make me go from "Fastmail is awesome!" to "Meh, it's email and it's alright". Saying that as someone who has been a paying user for many years.