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While I too would love to see continued development of Persona and Thunderbird by Mozilla, it's important to remember that as open-source projects they're still
by nalck 11y ago
While I too would love to see continued development of Persona and Thunderbird by Mozilla, it's important to remember that as open-source projects they're still freely available. I still use both, and see no reason to stop. Development can continue without Mozilla.
- StavrosK 11y agoI used it two weeks ago for a weekend project (shameless plug: https://www.pastery.net/ https://www.pastery.net/, a beautiful pastebin), and it's just not the same. Feature requests go into the void, although the team at Mozilla was kind enough to answer even though it's not their job any more, but you can't really use it for a "serious" site while it's very unsupported.
- dorfsmay 11y agoProject rot is a thing. This is one thing Mozilla has been good at, keep projects alive and create network effect (well known name backup). Another Thunderbird user...
- fuck_google 11y agoYes. Google has demonstrated how trust can be lost quickly by killing or abandoning popular projects. It is the path to the dark side. Hopefully Mozilla can resist taking that path.