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I’ve used thunderbird pretty much from the start, for the last 20 years or so. The UI was looking a bit dated, lately, so I’m really looking forward to this. The next thing we need is better performance (I may suffer more than most as I have literally hundreds of thousands of messages and dozens of folders on the imap server). Fingers crossed!

Oh thank cthulu, I've been waiting for this for ages. I'm so glad Thunderbird is getting some much needed love.

I waited for Thunderbird to get good for so long, I ended migrating to emClient... Looks great, but I don't think I feel like resetting all my devices and systems again

Are there any plans for tray icon and desktop notification support? Those features are the only reason I would run a desktop email client, without them I'll just use a browser. I know Birdtray exists but I can't get it to work with flatpak Thunderbird.

Oh that's cool.

I'm definitely very boomer in that I still prefer to get my email via Thunderbird rather than through a web browser!

I've been using Thunderbird for ages. I like the card view, although I still prefer the list view with no preview if I have a ton of messages to go through.

Just finished setting up thunderbird. The new design looks amazing! Although it has some UX problems, I hope they'll get resolved along the way.

Overall, pleased, and migrated all of my inboxes to it!

That definitely looks different. I assume they still haven't put the system tray functionality back?

Does anyone know if they've fixed performance? Thunderbird feels really slow to navigate and fetch messages.

Loving it so far! Anyone know how to change the font or font size when you view the message body as plain text rather than HTML? All the font settings I could find in the gui are not changing it.

It's well past 15:00 EST and the version I get when downloading is 102.13.0 for some reason.

Edit: solved by itself after some minutes, probably a CDN thing.

This looks great. Would be awesome if i could host this in a docmer container so i dont need to manage installs on clients.

It took one release for Thunderbird to go from a pretty ancient looking program to one of the best looking ones out there.

I've tried Thunderbird and wasn't convinced.. My work life is basically email, and I've tried several email apps over the years, a lot more than most people. I've found Postbox on desktop and Spark on mobile to be the magic pair for me so far. Unless Postbox fails me, I don't think I'll bother trying anything else anytime soon... Though I'm open to suggestions for mobile, since there's room for improvement with Spark.

That looks awesome!

Can single-key shortcuts finally be changed/disabled? I can't count the number of times I thought I had focus in a different element or even different application and accidentally archived, marked as spam or otherwise hid several e-mails just by a typing a single word.

Oh no! It looks like an electron app.

Eh... it's pretty, I guess, but it's just too "appified" for power users. My Thunderbird UI is festooned with useful buttons and menus for quick access, and I like the old style of having elements tightly spaced to maximize contextual awareness.

This reeks of form over function. Yuck.