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Why not? It's likely because the platforms were all much simpler then. Vendor-specific features like stickers, end-to-end encryption, video attachments, reactions make it difficult to support a subset which is going to satisfy regular users.

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But vendors are already providing a (somewhat) standard way of displaying that content through regular notifications. If I were to build a unified inbox like this, it would look more or less like a persistent view of the notifications panel from Android.

This is exactly what I was thinking. But notifications panel doesn't work for the use-case where OP wants to just check in on content that may not have been triggered by a notification.

Maybe do all that the way other great things were done:

RFC XXX Reaction

RFC XXX media inline as attachment

Of course we know why, and it is all about who owns the path to people's attention.

I am waiting for SPAM levels to come up and little breakages to begin. Email is a lot like the Post Office.

Everyone imagines it is them in front.

Sigh.

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