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The Thunderbird Redesign Survey

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @12:35AM   
from the now-with-ponies dept.

canopic jug writes:

Mozilla is asking for feedback about Thunderbird and threatening a redesign. Thunderbird is the most feature-rich of the GUI mail clients, but as a result also has a lot of cruft. The goal of the survey is to learn what Thunderbird users think about the current design, what are the biggest drawbacks, what potential changes should there be, and so on. The claim is that the information will be considered before any actual changes are made to the program itself.

See also Bryan Lunduke's interview with newly fledged Thunderbird developer Ryan Sypes about future directions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BQugHIccTI

So if you rely on Thunderbird for any part of your work flow, speak up now before it ends up unusable trash like M$ Outlook or Apple Mail.

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Original Submission

• We missed the point We missed the point (Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:32PM (1 child)

  by KritonK (465) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:32PM (#624312)

  I think we missed the point of the survey.

  The survey was so obviously stacked against the old UI, that of course we would kick back and say that the old UI is modern and exciting, while the new UI is obsolete and exciting. The result of the survey will be that thunderbird users want to keep the old UI, and we all know what Mozilla think of what their users want...

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• Re:We missed the point (Score: 2) by dry on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:39PM

  by dry (223) on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:39PM (#624317) Journal

  Mozilla has never been about the users. It's all about the Architecture, and fuck the users.

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