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<p>On 2015-12-02 04:02, Patrick Cloke wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Maybe not quite "Thunderbird is dead", but a bit of a sensational-ized<br /> post is on Hacker News: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654861">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10654861</a>.<br /> I've already had two friends ask me questions like "Mozilla is trying<br /> to...basically kill...Thunderbird?"<br /><br /> Just anecdotal experience though. :)<br /><br /></div>
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<p>Also <a href="https://twitter.com/fjdekermadec/status/671509421407780866),">https://twitter.com/fjdekermadec/status/671509421407780866</a>, and this is what I'm getting at – not "this has been in train for some time and the post contains nothing new for those in the know". From an end-user view I doubt many people are going to dig into the detail, and I strongly suspect this is going to be spun from some quarters (including competing products) as Thunderbird is dead/dying/being killing and such. A updated blog post perhaps stating and summarising some facts (e.g. "we're here, we're growing, we've pushed out n releases since being community driven and will continue to do so") could be useful to deflect this and reassure folks who use the product.</p>
<p>Cheers, <br />Dave</p>
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