alt Hacker News> The UI looks pretty good too. It's really not hard to beat thunderbird.
I don't understand this mentality. It's an email client. There's not a lot needed UI-wise to make a functioning interface. Display a list of emails, show the full message when you open it, etc. I don't see anything functionally different between this email app and basically every other one I've ever used.
You've either got insane standards or are using email way different than I.
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>I don't understand this mentality. It's an email client. There's not a lot needed UI-wise to make a functioning interface.
I don't understand this mentality.
Human communication is one of the most complicated activities in existence. Most (all) clients are modelling it very poorly.
> There's not a lot needed UI-wise to make a functioning interface
I remember waiting for ~15 years until Thunderbird finally implemented rich content support in the e-mail list (needed for a proper 3-column layout, as otherwise the e-mail list, being a simple table, wouldn't fit on the widest screens available).
So, yeah... Not a lot, but Thunderbird has been missing the bar for over a decade.
Clearly you have never tried to use Thunderbird...!
Can’t speak for others but for me Thunderbird’s UI feels distracting and almost grating in some ways. It’s technically functional but doesn’t feel right.
I know things like that don’t bother some folks and that’s fine, but others like myself can’t turn the visual parts of their brains off and so some software feels like nails on a chalkboard to use.