Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" will be intuitive and welcoming to new users, while remaining familiar and comfortable for our veteran users.

See how we're accomplishing that balance with this preview of the new Folder Pane: blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

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BTW I'm one of those long term users who don't really know what the "local folders" are about. They seem to contain copies of messages I've sent to Usenet but I don't know what else they're for!

Usenet support is the reason I chose Thunderbird btw when I got fed up with my previous email client crashing and corrupting its data too many times - nobody else was still supporting it.

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This is how you do it.

> Younger users have become used to using simpler interfaces. They’ve never used a “Local Folder” and probably don’t even know what that is. So, we’re offering a simple option to turn the Local Folders display on or off.

Having "simple" and "advanced" views like this (on Windows 98 SE and, later, Windows XP) is how I learnt how computers worked. Funny how, when you actually focus on UX for its own sake, all the extra things I like just show up on their own.

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I hope it's still compact enough or has a compact mode toggle switch so my 5 accounts with dozens of folders are still easily navigatable on a 4k 43" screen without scaling.

I am highly anticipating this update, will look forward to being another #thunderbird space monkey when it makes its way into the #archlinux #aur -- its been so encouraging to see all the work the last few years.