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<blockquote type="cite">Generally, simpler is better - let the
user focus on what they need, and not have a whole lot of
unnecessary things around it. That may be causing an unnecessary
and unwanted distraction.</blockquote>
As someone who fields a lot of questions from our users I can say
that any complexity we add will confuse a portion of people. I
know many of us in these discussions are tech-savvy - but we have
a sizeable number of users who are, um, not tech-savvy. I don't
want them to be worried about version numbers and then getting
lost trying to figure out whether what they are downloading is the
"right version". If you click the download button, you get
Thunderbird. That is the experience we want.<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Ryan Sipes
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<small>Community and Business Development Manager</small>
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<a href="https://thunderbird.net">Thunderbird</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/5/19 1:18 AM, Mark Banner wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/04/2019 02:34, Andrei
Hajdukewycz wrote:<br>
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For THIS topic specifically, I don't see a good argument to add
version numbers on the website. The average user doesn't care,
the average user also doesn't use add-ons(other than Lightning).
For support purposes, Help -> About displays the version and
always will, and for users who like to be aware, the download
URL that appears on mouseover still contains the full version
string.<br>
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<p>I'm with Andrei here, most users don't care. Yes, there are a
proportion of users that do want to know, and they are the ones
that tend to be more vocal about using specific versions, or
checking checksums etc and they'll know or find the ways to get
what they want.<br>
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<p>Think about what the average person will see when they come to
the website - they're interested, they might want to download
Thunderbird depending on what they see. What would that 60 mean?
What's significant about it? Is it the latest? Is it not, if
not, why isn't it, why aren't they offering me the latest? Maybe
I'll just go back to using Gmail, or I'll go get eM Client which
has a nice clean "Download for free" button. That's an extreme
example, I suspect most users would just ignore the 60 and
download it.</p>
<p>Users *may* get interested once they start using it (because of
add-ons etc), but that could also be a week or two after they've
started using it, at which point it may have already updated
from the version they originally downloaded. That's why we have
Help -> About just like any other program.<br>
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<p>I just found <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.lifewire.com/top-free-windows-email-programs-1174215">this
article on 6 free email clients</a>, one of them is
Thunderbird. Out of the 5 remaining, only one (Incredimail)
feels the need to mention the version number. Only two of them
(Incredimail, Mail & Calendar) feel the need to mention more
than works on "Windows, Mac and Linux".</p>
<p>Generally, simpler is better - let the user focus on what they
need, and not have a whole lot of unnecessary things around it.
That may be causing an unnecessary and unwanted distraction.</p>
<p>Mark<br>
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