Dear @thunderbird :
I want exactly zero notifications for me and for the desktop users I support using the upcoming #Thunderbird 134 when it's released.
Will there be an easy option to disable all such notifications ?
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Aleca
in reply to Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴 • • •You will be able to disable the majority of those notifications (like surveys and other non critical pings) with a pref, but donation appeals will still happen (3 or 4 a year, max). We rely exclusively on donations to keep maintaining a free product, so completely blocking those really affects us negatively
Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴
in reply to Aleca • • •It seems enterprise / corporate use was not considered when deciding to prevent disabling donation notifications. This is worse than Nagware - nagging will continue even when donating, right ?
Aleca
in reply to Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴 • • •Anyway, we're exploring enterprise specific solutions, as well as anonymous, in-client, and encrypted donor recognition so we don't ask again to the same users.
We obviously don't want to be annoying, but I hope you can understand how difficult it is to support millions of users without some very sporadic donation appeal
Fabián Rodríguez 🛡💾 🇨🇴 🌴
in reply to Aleca • • •@alecaddd OK, once every 4 months is reasonable, now imagine all free open source software asking for this.
What you describe sounds awfully like tracking, again, unexpected in Free open source software.
I am really not against donations notifications, just not in an office context, when it's already installed and I am upgrading. Enabled by default, yes. No way to disable it, please - no.