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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/12/15 10:14, Dave Koelmeyer
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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Just anecdotal experience though. :)<br>
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<p>Also <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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.<br>
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Well that didn't take long:<br>
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<a
href="http://www.getmailbird.com/the-best-mozilla-thunderbird-alternatives-for-windows/#.VmEla2N4iGQ.twitter"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.getmailbird.com/the-best-mozilla-thunderbird-alternatives-for-windows/">http://www.getmailbird.com/the-best-mozilla-thunderbird-alternatives-for-windows/</a></a><br>
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