Gregory's Server@jwz It is a frustrating affair.
I have been thinking a lot about how Thunderbird is reconquering mind- and marketshare with the desktop version and the K-9 Mail-based Thunderbird for Android.
I can hope it will not be polluted with AI, but that seems unlikely in the long run.
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@jwz @mjj as far as I understand it, Thunderbird just is completely deprioritized after 2020 (minus them buying out K-9 Mail to turn it into Thunderbird for Android), with Mozilla basically trying to handle it like the Apache Foundation, where they're "just the stewards", which is just code language for "we can't be arsed to keep developing it". |
@mjj I don't know anything about what's going on technically with Thunderbird these days, but for years they've been playing word-games where they pretend to be a "Mozilla" project when it suits them and utterly independent when the press is going the other way.
"We're a part of Mozilla, not Mozilla or Mozilla or Mozilla" is a thing that they say and it does not inspire confidence, because either it's intentionally deceptive or it's just comically bad messaging, and neither are great.