People keep asking me to add new, often exotic, features to the app, to whom I often say "no", and other people complain about too many features.
Both groups of people leave bad reviews for this, which is frustrating, also because there are already enough bad reviews for the wrong reasons
(email server problems, which unfortunately happen too often, etc.).
The main problem is that more features now make more people unhappy than happy.
Therefore, [the rules for new features](https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#get-support) will be strictly followed from today.
No worries, the app will [continue to be maintained](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commits/) and supported as usual.
<br>
Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual [CASA](https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa) security audit,
which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year [TAC Security](https://casa.tacsecurity.com/site/home)).
Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year.
This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free, meaning some features must be paid for in order to pay for an annual security audit.
To be clear, nothing will be changed for now.
The security audit revealed no problems, so Google accounts [can continue to be used](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13464325) as usual next year.
<br>
For support you can use [the contact form](https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport).
* Added tap on folder name to go to folder (conversation/message view only)
### Notices
You may have noticed that fewer new features have been added recently and therefore fewer new (test) versions have been released.
This is a result of saying “no” more often to new features that do not enhance the overall usability of the app (see below).
What is not very motivating is that a number of people who consider themselves more important than other people have left bad reviews for this.
I am not giving up, but this is just not nice, also considering that it is not a commercial project.
On a positive note, a number of people contacted me to encourage me, for which many thanks!
<br>
Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual [CASA](https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa) security audit,
which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year [TAC Security](https://casa.tacsecurity.com/site/home)).
Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year.
This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free, meaning some features must be paid for in order to pay for an annual security audit.
To be clear, nothing will be changed for now.
The security audit revealed no problems, so Google accounts [can continue to be used](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13464325) as usual next year.
<br>
People keep asking me to add new, often exotic, features to the app, to whom I often say "no", and other people complain about too many features.
Both groups of people leave bad reviews for this, which is frustrating, also because there are already enough bad reviews for the wrong reasons
(email server problems, which unfortunately happen too often, etc.).
The main problem is that more features now make more people unhappy than happy.
Therefore, [the rules for new features](https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#get-support) will be strictly followed from today.
No worries, the app will [continue to be maintained](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commits/) and supported as usual.
<br>
For support you can use [the contact form](https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport).
People keep asking me to add new, often exotic, features to the app, to whom I often say "no", and other people complain about too many features.
Both groups of people leave bad reviews for this, which is frustrating, also because there are already enough bad reviews for the wrong reasons
(email server problems, which unfortunately happen too often, etc.).
The main problem is that more features now make more people unhappy than happy.
Therefore, [the rules for new features](https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#get-support) will be strictly followed from today.
No worries, the app will [continue to be maintained](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commits/) and supported as usual.
<br>
Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual [CASA](https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa) security audit,
which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year [TAC Security](https://casa.tacsecurity.com/site/home)).
Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year.
This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free, meaning some features must be paid for in order to pay for an annual security audit.
To be clear, nothing will be changed for now.
The security audit revealed no problems, so Google accounts [can continue to be used](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13464325) as usual next year.
<br>
For support you can use [the contact form](https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport).
* Added tap on folder name to go to folder (conversation/message view only)
### Notices
You may have noticed that fewer new features have been added recently and therefore fewer new (test) versions have been released.
This is a result of saying “no” more often to new features that do not enhance the overall usability of the app (see below).
What is not very motivating is that a number of people who consider themselves more important than other people have left bad reviews for this.
I am not giving up, but this is just not nice, also considering that it is not a commercial project.
On a positive note, a number of people contacted me to encourage me, for which many thanks!
<br>
Google requires FairEmail to undergo an annual [CASA](https://appdefensealliance.dev/casa) security audit,
which must be conducted by an authorized assessor (this year [TAC Security](https://casa.tacsecurity.com/site/home)).
Besides being time-consuming, this is no longer free as of this year.
This is one of the reasons why the app cannot be completely free, meaning some features must be paid for in order to pay for an annual security audit.
To be clear, nothing will be changed for now.
The security audit revealed no problems, so Google accounts [can continue to be used](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13464325) as usual next year.
<br>
People keep asking me to add new, often exotic, features to the app, to whom I often say "no", and other people complain about too many features.
Both groups of people leave bad reviews for this, which is frustrating, also because there are already enough bad reviews for the wrong reasons
(email server problems, which unfortunately happen too often, etc.).
The main problem is that more features now make more people unhappy than happy.
Therefore, [the rules for new features](https://m66b.github.io/FairEmail/#get-support) will be strictly followed from today.
No worries, the app will [continue to be maintained](https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/commits/) and supported as usual.
<br>
For support you can use [the contact form](https://contact.faircode.eu/?product=fairemailsupport).
M66B
6 months ago