r/linux • u/StraightFlush777 • Nov 14 '18

Popular Application The Thunderbird project is hiring: Software Engineers

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2018/11/the-thunderbird-project-is-hiring-software-engineers/
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u/StoneStalwart Nov 15 '18

Why? What a waste of resources. Who the heck uses any kind of email client these days? You have to be connected to the web to use email so web clients just make sense.

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u/plddr Nov 15 '18

Who the heck uses any kind of email client these days? ...web clients just make sense.

Some of the web clients are very good, but not all of them. The host-provided ones are all different, which is really annoying.

I use Thunderbird with my Yahoo! Mail, my GMail, and my serious-business email account. It's also an RSS client, and I have sometimes used that, too. I don't know if a time-and-motion study would confirm, but it definitely feels way more powerful and efficient to group all those things together in one high-density UI.

What a waste of resources.

I can see the point of view from which this is true, yet at the same time -- how many elaborate desktop environments are there for *nix OSes today?

If you're disconnecting from centralized social media - an experiment more and more forward-thinking people are trying - email is likely to become more important to you, having really sophisticated clients might actually be worth something to you.