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housemusicfan you have been downvoted. Welcome to the bottom of the comments section. I hang out here a lot. After using TB for about 20 years, I have a few

• luuurker 3y ago
  Of course they've been downvoted. An app doesn't have to look like shit for it to be functional. It can be both. If they think it needs to look like Netscape Navigator to be functional, then at least they should understand that they're a minority. Most apps are trying to serve most users, not the small group that prefers the Windows 95 style or a command line client. The comment itself isn't very useful. Users of this site are not even the most supportive of modern UIs and will praise HN's look (and the old reddit UI), but what's exactly housemusicfan's problem with the new Thunderbird UI? What was made worse? It comes off as an "old man yells at cloud" type of comment and that won't gather much support.
• housemusicfan 3y ago
  The HN Brahmins are free to use this as evidence that their world view is superior, but my post sat at +8 before suddenly dropping to -4 in the span of a few minutes. So my assessment is the overall opinion is far more balanced, but the echo chamber always prevails, and it's much more difficult to dig yourself out of the hole once you've been buried within. I do not treat post score as a popularity contest or validation that an opinion is correct (or not). The sad truth is this industry is full of thin skinned prima donnas who love nothing more than "educating" their customers on what's best for them, whilst continually performing them a disservice in the form of UX "improvements" that literally no one asked for.