Yes, that happened more than 10 years ago. But nobody being paid to do maintenance led to accumulation of cruft. About 3 years ago Thunderbird was spun out to MZLA Technologies Corporation, owned by the Mozilla Foundation (being a corporation makes employing people possible iirc). Now they have many full time employees and try to make Thunderbird more accessible, more consistent while still keeping all the current users happy.
(That’s from my memory of news articles and a podcast they made.)
I’m really happy with the new design since it allows for more customizations (density etc).
i though mozilla abandonned thunderbird and it became community driven?
Yes, that happened more than 10 years ago. But nobody being paid to do maintenance led to accumulation of cruft. About 3 years ago Thunderbird was spun out to MZLA Technologies Corporation, owned by the Mozilla Foundation (being a corporation makes employing people possible iirc). Now they have many full time employees and try to make Thunderbird more accessible, more consistent while still keeping all the current users happy.
(That’s from my memory of news articles and a podcast they made.)
I’m really happy with the new design since it allows for more customizations (density etc).