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Betterbird: A Thunderbird Fork That Promises Better Features
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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2024
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Disclaimer: I haven't read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.
Have they released anything yet? Or are we at the project stage, where they're yelling at their CLI confused about git?
Promises are cheap, releases matter. I mean I could announce a project called Betterfox, promising to bring better features to a well-known browser. But in reality I'm by myself, overly ambitious, and going to leave the github page abandoned after the initial commit.
A wise choice in this case. It's 23 paragraphs that mostly describe standard Thunderbird features (as the author usually does not use email clients) and only one list with three (!) bullet points of new features in Betterbird.
Edit: to save you a click, here's the list from the article (the actual feature list on the project page is longer):
System Tray Icon?!? What is this sourcery?
Sounds so futuristic. I mean I may be stuck in the 70s reading my electronic mail in pine on a pdp11, so that may influence my judgment.
The current beta versions of Thunderbird are implementating a tray icon for linux so soon this fork seems like it'll only have 2 unique features..
And even with that proviso, I've been using birdtray for ages, and it works well enough.
Should I upgrade from elm to pine?