Notices by Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 (ryanleesipes@mastodon.social), page 2

@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/

@dansup hook me up with the opportunity to test. Maybe Thunderbird should support Sup.

It is the 20th anniversary since the first release of @thunderbird

When I came onto the project in 2017, it was in rough shape and the future was uncertain. Now we have an amazing, refreshed experience and the project is healthy due to generous donations of our users.

The future looks bright! 20 years on and still strong!

I'm not really happy with the state of Linux distros. Maybe it's time I do something about that?

@marc @thunderbird @mconley @killyourfm you are one of us regardless of your day job!

Thunderbird will never show ads in your inbox. Your inbox is your inbox #FreeTheInbox #Gmail

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/05/gmail-ads-increase-2023/

I'm hiring a Full-Stack Dev who will report to me and work on helping me spin up cool services that enhance the experience of using Thunderbird. I need a Dev Samurai who can help architect and then develop a project from scratch. Someone with an entrepreneurial spirit (as we're gonna be building a lot from the ground up).

Open source experience a big plus.

Apply here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/4901160/

Using the new Thunderbird vertical layout with mult-line support. It's really nice. It's still missing some polish, but already can tell my productivity is up.