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Comment by dmix | Hacker News Reader

Considering the amount of changes this article is extremely light on details.

Does "new website" mean marketing website or a redesigned web based mail app? I'm assuming this is just marketing/branding changes given it's written by a marketing person.

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After seeing this article, I reloaded my open Fastmail browser tab. I see a new logo in the upper left corner and a new favicon on the browser tab. Looks the same to me otherwise.

If the screenshots on the landing page are any indication, the overall design, both on the desktop and mobile, looks to be the same but with a new logo.

I can't check it myself because I closed my account with them a couple of weeks ago, so maybe a current user can confirm.

Out of curiosity, what lead you to close your account? I only switched to them fairly recently and I've genuinely been very, very pleased with their service.

Just a thought - the fact that they are in Australia and can be legally compelled to install backdoors.

Did Fastmail make any effort to notify their userbase that this was now the law in the region they operate in?

See https://fastmail.blog/2019/02/28/aabill-and-fastmail/ and https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...

Thank you.

I was quite happy with the service itself, but I'm not using email enough to justify its monthly price. They're a great company, and I hope they're around by the time I need their services again!

The webapp is still the same, at least for me

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