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by wackget 115 days ago
You must be joking. The Supernova UI redesign is an unmitigated disaster. They unnecessarily butchered the look and feel of Thunderbird to the point where people are switching to forks.
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Absolutely. New Thunderbird sucks, I was afraid this would happen when they resumed development. what’s the best alternative?

Give me the 1990s GUI back.

Clawsand SeaMonkey both have a more reasonable design. (SeaMonkey did a piss poor job picking screenshots for their webpage...)

https://www.claws-mail.org/screenshots.php

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/doc/screenshots

Claws, that’s the one I remember.
Well I like Supernova better, it made me switch to Thunderbird from em Client. (I always wanted to switch to Thunderbird, but until Supernova I never liked the UX enough to keep using it)
The previous UI made no sense. Having the email viewer on the bottom and the list on the top instead of side by side makes absolutely no sense when most emails are designed for viewing in portrait.