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I'm sad. This project had so much potential in the early days. Right now it's relegated to just being used by some aficionados.
by simonebrunozzi 6y ago
I'm sad. This project had so much potential in the early days. Right now it's relegated to just being used by some aficionados.
- tristan957 6y agoThe project is actually the most healthy it has probably ever been, or at least in recent memory. Did you read the financial report at all?
- pizza234 6y agoI think that financial and technical status are essentially divorced. Good that they're getting money, but on the technical side, it's a rambling disaster. TB has had the embarrassing Mork backend for ages (took around 14 years to fix; it's not in the released version yet). And the codebase is so tangled that nobody has been able to convert the email writing window into a tab. One window! Even ignoring the above, the addons compatibility keeps breaking. AFAIK that's a necessity, but as an end-user, the result is an increased alienation from the product. Ultimately, Thunderbird without addons is an unremarkable product.
- u801e 6y ago> And the codebase is so tangled that nobody has been able to convert the email writing window into a tab. One window! Switching between windows is easy using alt-tab. Switching tabs requires one to do something like ctrl-pgup/pgdown or alt-number if you know the tab number. Personally, I think using alt-tab is a lot easier to switch between the compose and overview windows.
- 908087 6y agoMy entire staff prefers Thunderbird to Outlook, including the ones who would in no way be considered "aficionados". They have a choice to use either, and out of 35 people none of them choose to use Outlook.