Out of the loop, what's wrong with electron?

Ugh, I was looking forward to replacing Thunderbird/Bridge, but never mind.

And that they decided to go with RPM and DEB instead of just doing a Flatpak

Waiting for Proton to acknowledge and fix critical bugs that can cause data loss was way more painful.. took them years with the solution being "just wait for the bridge rewrite it will be (most likely) fixed there".

Yep. Installed it, started it, saw it is basically the website in an embedded browser, uninstalled it.

Like, come on, you have a web version. Why should I use an extra application to view a website. This seems like a cheap excuse for a desktop app.

Thunderbird is fine.

Tbh I have no idea what they are doing though, they have more funding than GNOME but after Supernova I didnt see any updates.

See my list of flatpak repositories

There is an unofficial Thunderbird nightly Flatpak, that will likely reveal what the hell they are doing.

So Supernova is kinda nice, mainly a big overhaul of the underlying stuff, making it easier to maintain.

It lacks a ton of things like Threads (the addon TB Conversation works though). Also their "spaces" bar is useless, as it just opens tabs, so it is redundant. Good idea, but only if it could replace tabs.

Their search and filter stuff is still the same, really bad. Either displaced in the message list column, as the global search still opens a new tab which is kinda bad UI.

Some addons broke too, not a big deal though.

I have the feeling they removed nested filters, which is extremely bad, but filters still work.

Thunderbird works well.

Yes Thunderbird is getting really nice nowadays.

Oh... I thought they meant Drive is finally out. That sucks. :(

Hey it takes effort to make a WebView for mail.proton.com

They need to see how to package the dedicated browser for all the different distros and operating systems, make a nice icon and so ok. It takes hours

They should sell this masterpiece for much more

Is the bridge actually being discontinued? People have been saying that a lot recently but I've not seen any evidence for it, and not in the linked article.

I'm annoyed that they don't support SMTP, but realistically they actually can't unless they have the ability to read your email, which they don't.

Proton forces you to pay for a bridge to use Thunderbird.

Tutanota doesn't even provide that.

These "privacy respecting" email services don't respect the user enough to let them use third party email clients easily if the user chooses to.

Proton mail has some extra (security?) feature, or they just lack smtp support, and you cannot directly use it on thunderbird. They offer a "bridge" app which allows you to do it, I just use that.

It's worse than you thought.

The webmail provider released a dedicated browser that can only open the webmail and called it a "desktop" app.

Additionally, they don't support IMAP. There's an app to run on your computer that becomes a bridge. The proprietary protocol is translated to IMAP. You can't use your favorite client if your operating system can't run that bridge and you're not a premium user because for "reasons" only premium users can run that local bridge