Notices by Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 (ryanleesipes@mastodon.social)

@killyourfm Conversation view is also coming together... All the things are converging...

Dark mode for email content is finally in testing on Thunderbird Daily. It's coming folks, it's almost here.

@killyourfm truly. The dopamine fasts or whatever the kids are calling them now can be really powerful

@killyourfm is it time for RV Jason?

Why is everyone hating on Mozilla Corporation for shutting down a Mastodon instance with barely any users? Doesn't it make sense that they should focus on making Firefox better? There are many, many great Mastodon instances. There's not that many good browsers that aren't Chromium-based.

/me ducks in anticipation of the Fediverse's fury

@shauna we're a subsidiary. But we have our own distinct board and bylaws.

@shauna absolutely, I'd love to share our story. When we started doing things this way (after Thunderbird nearly died), folks were skeptical of this model. But we've seen revenue grow 1108% under it, and we've grown our daily active users by more than 1 million on average in the past year alone. So I'd say that something is working right.

Ping me at ryan@thunderbird.net

@shauna add another wrinkle and MZLA (the Mozilla entity that houses Thunderbird) - has a co-governance model between a board and a Council, elected from contributors. This gives the community immense power (we can't approve a yearly budget without the Council's input, for instance). While it has been hard to have so many different stakeholders, I believe it has kept us honest and true to the mission of great open source communication software that champions open standards.

We deserve an amazing Android Email client, help us create it.

K-9 Mail is on the final stretch to becoming Thunderbird for Android. If you want to participate (even finding bugs is helpful), you can find the repo here:

https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android

@kariboka @pidgin it's not web-based, but it is on all platforms - @thunderbird

@pidgin @kariboka @thunderbird true! Pidgin is also an amazing choice. I'm contractually obligated to promote Thunderbird. But I love Pidgin, the open source birds have to stick together!

If you missed it. We shared our calendar scheduling project publicly last week. All open source, you can self host it or hop on the beta wait-list to get on our instance. Looking forward to seeing what we can all build together with Thunderbird Appointment.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/plan-less-do-more-introducing-appointment-by-thunderbird/

What is this? WhatsApp and Slack in Thunderbird? Love it or hate it, it's VERY interesting!

@ponda @thunderbird haha. I'm the Director of Thunderbird. This is one of our experiments.

Want to know the Thunderbird turnaround story? If you are into open source software, you will appreciate this tale.

Check out: "Thunderbird, The Death and Rebirth of an OSS Project" - my talk at GUADEC.

https://youtu.be/pWw1A1aKfh8?si=vX_EKmV8_PU1_woo

Hey all, I'm giving a talk on Thunderbird on Android at SCALE - if you're going to be there come join me to learn what we've been up to with our Android client!

@thunderbird

I often get asked something like:

"Why work on email clients? Isn't Gmail what most people use?"

The answer: a ton of people use Gmail and O365/Outlook. So many that it is endangering the email standard. But Email is the most decentralized communication technology out there - and great clients help protect that. So that folks can have a great email experience, regardless of the server/provider they use.

Protect email. Use Thunderbird.

What is our opinion of chat apps these days? I have a ton of them and I don't love any of them, honestly. What's the fediverse's thoughts on this?

I'm so excited to share all the cool stuff we are working on over in Thunderbird world. I think a lot of folks will be authentically blown away by what we are playing around with.

Some teasers:

- Rust 🦀
- We heard you want to send End-to-end encrypted files...
- I'd like to take some notes...

Barely anyone picked this up... Y'all need to start listening to Thundercast.

https://www.howtogeek.com/thunderbird-mail-is-reviving-an-old-mozilla-service/