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State of the Bird 2024/25
- lagniappe 11mo agoRe: financial contributions - When I hear "investments in our shared values" I automatically assume they're referencing things outside of building an email client.
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- nanna 11mo agoPlease. Fix. Search. Please. Fix. Search.
- mzur 11mo agoThey wrote about this recently. With "Panorama" [1] they want to introduce an SQLite DB for all messages that will also be responsible for the search index. [1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/video-conversation-view/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/video-conversation-view...
- isaachinman 11mo agoPerhaps give us a look: https://marcoapp.io https://marcoapp.io Search is single-digit ms!
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- johnea 11mo agoI had to correct my child's kindergarten teacher on this same sequence. The correct order is: 0123456789
- johnea 11mo ago> updates that make Thunderbird feel fresher This is coded language for screwing around with the UI again 8-/ I've used thunderbird for decades, I wish they'd stop changing the UI, and make the basic IMAP fetch functionality work. Having a true maildir storage format would also be nice. I don't want _any_ software that I use in my workflow to "feel fresh". I want the UI to remain stable, so I don't have to retrain my muscle memory. The scroll bars that disappear still annoy me. along with the recent changes putting their buttons across the top of the window...
- everybodyknows 11mo ago> I want the UI to remain stable, Certainly, though with one exception: Contextual help for controls, especially for infrequent actions like configuration, which to an ordinary user feels new every time. Specifically, one or more of: - Circled "i" links - Hover-help - Conflicting option selections to grey out, rather than disappear