<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[David Meyer]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/superglaze/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Decentralized webmail outfit Mailpile scraps beta program for now]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>When I <a href="https://gigaom.com/2014/02/27/designing-for-freedom-meet-the-people-putting-user-experience-at-the-heart-of-online-privacy/">wrote about the decentralization movement</a> a year back, one of the big pro-privacy hopes was Mailpile, which is ambitiously trying to build a user-friendly yet rock-solid encrypted webmail system with a hybrid desktop/in-browser approach. On Friday, Mailpile&#8217;s Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <a href="https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-03-06_Beta_Rejected.html">announced the rejection</a> of the Mailpile beta, saying feedback had led the team to go back to the drawing board. One key issue was unsurprisingly related to making &#8220;all that crypto stuff completely seamless.&#8221; Iceland-based Einarsson is taking a break to get married (mazel tov) and, with the back-end providing most of the problems, front-end designer Brennan Novak has &#8220;moved on to other things for now.&#8221; Here&#8217;s hoping Mailpile gets back on track when development resumes next month.</p>
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