Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
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Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#2Don't say that its better, show how its better.
Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#3Don't say that its better, show how its better.
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Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#4There was another venture that was building a mail client off the Thunderbird codebase. https://www.postbox-inc.com/
Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#5I really love Thunderbird; I've been using it for at least a decade now. There are definitely places where it still needs improvement, after years and years. While Betterbird seems exciting in theory, the attitude of the project leader (who it seems is a banned former contributor to Mozilla Thunderbird), and honestly even the arrogance in the name itself gives me pause.
The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are pretty concerning, as is the fact that the response seemed to be trying get out of the first temporary ban on technicalities, rather than addressing the behaviors that caused the ban to begin with. Even worse is that he violated the temporary ban. Then I saw this[1] recent email response which left yet another bad taste in my mouth.
To the dev's credit, everything is very transparent, but if I learned anything about FOSS drama (see Netgate v. Wireguard, 2021) it's that the loudest side is probably not the one I want to follow.
[0] https://www.betterbird.eu/faq/moz-governance.pdf [1] https://www.betterbird.eu/answer.html
Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#6Did Betterbird finally solve that global faceted search opens in a normal view (as a unthreaded list) rather than this ridiculous html view?
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#7i really wish librewolf team made a thunderbird fork...
Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#8I really love Thunderbird; I've been using it for at least a decade now. There are definitely places where it still needs improvement, after years and years. While Betterbird seems exciting in theory, the attitude of the project leader (who it seems is a banned former contributor to Mozilla Thunderbird), and honestly even the arrogance in the name itself gives me pause. The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are…
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Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#9Don't say that its better, show how its better.
There is a feature comparison link on the front page in the second paragraph.
Re: Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
#10I really love Thunderbird; I've been using it for at least a decade now. There are definitely places where it still needs improvement, after years and years. While Betterbird seems exciting in theory, the attitude of the project leader (who it seems is a banned former contributor to Mozilla Thunderbird), and honestly even the arrogance in the name itself gives me pause. The issues laid out in this[0] email thread are…
Being banned from Mozilla is actually sort of endorsement for me :)
I was worried this project is just repacked Thunderbird, with malware. This makes it more legit.
Also some people do not like politics in Mozilla Corp. Firefox is supposed to be privacy focused, yet it uses Google for search, CEO salaries, scraping promising tech etc...
I use Brave browser, created by a guy who was also banned from Mozilla, it works great.