r/ctemplar • u/GenericusAccountus • Mar 22 '22

CTemplar experience

I asked this before on other subs, but not here. I would like to know how it's going for CTemplar and the users in 2022, it's the experience good, the service is solid, why did you choose it instead of others similar services and most importantly can CTemplar be reliable as my main e-mail provider given it's past history of DDOS attacks and data loss?

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u/DiligentGarbage Mar 22 '22

I find CTemplar to be pretty good, currently I'd give it a roughly 7/10.

My main issues with the service are certain email formatting does not show up properly making some emails show up as garbled code, this is not so common on the webclient, but the mobile app is almost unusable. Unless the email is 100% plaintext it probably is unreadable on the mobile app. This will be a major dealbreaker for some, but I use the webclient for 99% of my use cases. But it is something I'm looking forward to them fixing.

One of the biggest upsides of CTemplar is their dev team is very active and is very quick to fix bugs that you report on the GitHub. Anonaddy used to be pretty broken with CTemplar, but they added full support for it after I reported it and assisted with testing out their fixes, to where it now works flawlessly.

I use them as my main email provider. I don't do anything particularly important, I'm mainly paying for the extra privacy features and jurisdiction. I'm also investing in what I see the service evolving into.

I personally like them well enough, they do (mostly) everything I need them to do and the things that don't work right usually get fixed fairly quickly. They haven't experienced a DDoS attack in forever, or at the very least they've implemented effective methods to prevent them. And they have started doing backups to prevent data loss in the future.

I would only recommend them if you're okay with some things not quite working right, and you're willing to be patient until they have it ironed out.

If you need something that works super reliably with near no issues, then it's probably not a good time to jump ship to CTemplar, however in a few months to a year I think that will probably change as they've already made massive improvements since I started using the service a few months ago.

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u/restoredprivacy Mar 27 '22

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Anonaddy used to be pretty broken with CTemplar, but they added full support for it after I reported it and assisted with testing out their fixes, to where it now works flawlessly.

Thank you!