ryanleesipes's comments

Product Manager here. The answer is because we are tied to the ESR release cycle we have to release at a certain time (we are working on changing this). So we're shipping all the work that is done and stable. There is still work to be done to the front-end and as much as people want to trivialize it, it's not so simple. To make the changes we did, we had to rewrite a very complicated front-end with some code that has been there for 20 years and had entire systems built upon it. We are going to get to what the mockup showed. But we're going to build it right, and that means rewriting large pieces of our codebase. We'll ship the remaining stuff when they are ready.

Thunderbird Product Manager here. We have no intention to replace the backend or most of the components. It will not be a different app. It's still run by the K-9 project maintainer. The difference? We didn't want to see K-9 die because of a lack of funding, and our visions were aligned - so it made sense to work together. That's it. Thunderbird is community run (unlike Firefox, our community representatives approve our team's budget and goals), so our aims are just to provide for our users and community what they want. And they want to use email on their phones as well as desktop.

The way you present it sounds devious. But we're just truly trying to work together in the open source ecosystem the best we can and put our resources to their best use.

That's pretty much it. Can confirm, as I am Ryan Sipes. We (Thunderbird) are still 99.9% donation supported, so every bit helps.

Hey all,

Longtime Hackernews lurker, first time posting a project of my own here. I'm big into privacy, I am the Community Manager for Mozilla Thunderbird and before that I made the open source personal assistant Mycroft AI and worked at Linux computer seller System76.

When I went to use a personal finance app to aggregate my financial data (bank accounts, investment accounts, loans, etc) into one place - I just didn't feel comfortable with my data just sitting on someones server, especially when many of the apps I tried were startups with which I had little trust.

So I made Glance Money, it end-to-end encrypts your financial data on your device with a key generated there. It's also just awesome and allows you to quickly manage your finances "at a Glance". You can see balances, a transaction list, you can edit transactions, and even swipe through them via cards (Tinder style) via what I call the "Review Screen".

Yes, it uses Plaid to get your data, which means they have access to your data. Currently I don't have a way around that. Fortunately, they don't sell your data - but I have yet to solve for this piece of the equation.

What do you think HN? It's still very early days but would love for folks to try it and share what they think.

Download Links: https://glance.money Info on Encryption: https://glance.money/encryption

Long-time user, this is just an awesome project and has replaced alternatives for syncing all this stuff. Really loving the new EteSync Notes app!

As the Community Manager for Thunderbird, I can say that this comment is correct.

The non-profit Mozilla Foundation had many rules about what we could and could not do. The new Corp gives us more freedom, legally.

Thunderbird community manager here. This is correct. Moving from the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit) meant we had to cancel recurring donations.

We hope everyone will resume via https://give.thunderbird.net