• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article, my rant is entirely based on the title.

    [a] Fork That Promises Better Features

    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.

    • weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      Disclaimer: I haven’t read the article

      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):

      Some notable features include:

      • System Tray Icon (Linux)
      • Accent Colors (for folders)
      • Multi-line Inbox View (disabled by default)
    • SineNomineAnonymous@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      If you read the developer’s background and reasons for the fork, it’s actually a lot more… cringe.

      Pretty much, the guy lost his shit because Mozilla is woke / SJW / DEI and all the lovely buzz words used by certain people.

    • Sekoia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Ngl that link puts me slightly off. It reads exactly like what people booted for very good reasons say

      The following paragraph shows how so-called cancel culture was used weaponising […]

      And in the email, Mozilla talks about him violating their “inclusivity” policy… we also don’t know what was reported, only the reasons stated.

      Not saying that it wasn’t unjust, just that we only have 1 perspective and it’s written in a way that raises some red flags.

  • vort3@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Is there a way to use this as a drop in replacement easily? Like maybe move my Thunderbird profile folder into a Bettterbord folder, or maybe an automatic import option?

    This looks promising but I don’t really want to set up my email accounts and settings from scratch.

    • Nilz@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      As per the FAQ they seem to share the exact same profile so you can seamlessly switch between them (provided both are the same dot release).

      Edit: in case that doesn’t work, run betterbird -p and select the right profile. For me it chose the wrong one.