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
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.
Proton supports quick aliases as well.
Do they have unlimited quick aliases?
Yes, referring to the ‘+’ aliases.
Oh, those are less handy because they still give away your email address
Agreed, they provide 10 masked aliases for free and it’s $2/mo for unlimited via Proton Pass.
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).
Wasn’t Skiff also limited to 10 alises though on the free tier?
Fastmail supports aliases as well. I’m not sure how they are from a privacy side overall tho
Buy your own domain and set it up to forward all email to a single address. Then anything@your.domain is like an alias.
addy.io is another alternative
I always thought skiff was sus. I think there was a youtube sponsor video with them or something. Immediately smelled fishy.
MAKE PRODUCT AT LOSS
GET CAPITOL TO MAKE PRODUCT LOOK BIGGER
SELL PRODUCT FOR MORE THAN SPENT
FIRE EVERYONE TO “MAKE SUSTAINABLE” (LIE)
LEAVE WITH GOLDEN PARACHUTE
REPEAT TILL YOU CAN BUY ENOUGH PROPERTIES TO RAISE SHITHEAD KID WHO WILL RUIN YOUR FORTUNE
Lessons to learn:
STOP SHILLING EVERY NEW PRIVACY SERVICE PROVIDER
STOP FALLING FOR PRIVACY/SECURITY SNAKE OIL MARKETING
STOP HYPING STUFF TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL ACTIVITY IN PRIVACY COMMUNITY
Always felt shifty with their marketing attempts “hey, this looks really cool. It has . 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.
So glad I didn’t switch my email to them but sad that another promising service is gone.
Sad for the people who got tricked into their services from their aggressive marketing. Their CEO seemed very eager to do the right thing on the privacyguides forum, but clearly the plan was to sell as soon as he got a decent offer.
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Haven’t been on reddit in ages, but with his active presence in the forum on PG I can see him going on there too. Marketing works and people were actively looking for reasons to find alternatives to primarily Proton, which he clearly knew and took full advantage off.
Hopefully there’ll be a mass exodus from Skiff, and in the end a bad deal for Notion, that will discourage these kinds of money grabs in the future.
Even if he was sometimes right, it always came off as skiffy
The enshitfication is real
Ran it through the corpo parseltongue translator.
Where to get that ? XD
ChatGPT Store.
you can use the exact same image for an accurate translation of most corpo bs
If the data is encrypted client-side, why does this matter?
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.’
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 to make sure that previous non paying Skiff customers do pay at Notion.
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.
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.
It is some bullshit, to be sure. Basically a middle finger as they waltz out the door.
“Show yourself out.”
If they’re joining Notion, does that mean Notion is looking to add encrypted services?
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.
lol. no.
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.
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.
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.
Fuck this guy and fuck Notion too.
