When Will Thunderbird Get A PROPER Conversation View? [Office Hours Clip]

[@thunderbirdproject]

NOTE: The Conversations Add-on, maintained by Mark Banner, is alive and well. Mark says "There's a few rough edges in the latest versions (mainly that encrypted messages don't work - also due to Thunderbird's technical debt). I plan to support it the best I can at least until there's equivalent functionality in Thunderbird itself." addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/

[@Puntism]

Note that this add-on, while alive and well, seems to break with each new Thunderbird update. I've just tried to install it and got a message saying it is not compatible with my version of Thunderbird. It might just take the maintainer a bit of time to update it, but if it's going to be a regular thing it's not an ideal situation. However, thank you for the explanation of why this is such a difficult thing to implement. Getting an explanation like this makes it so much easier to just sit back and be patient, rather than being frustrated about what seems (to an uninformed user) to be a "simple" thing that "should" already be implemented. It would be great though to see regular progress updates on this, and the other database changes, to have an idea of what's happening in the background and to manage user expectations. Thanks for all the work you're doing!

[@an_original_id2363]

Hi! I just downloaded the new version (128 ESR) and it's great! Now it's my default email client :) I'd like to ask about the new conversation view: is there a new deadline?

[@devananjelito9111]

So... any news on conversation view? I want to use Thunderbird so bad but I am so used to Gmail that it is impossible for me not to use conversation view

[@user-gx3st2th8q]

that'd be helpful to remind myself what i sent in a conversation

[@thunderbirdproject]

Indeed! And hopefully we'll be able to implement this soon.

[@realraven2000]

Support for preview header in cards view would be nice.

[@JimLeonard]

Whatever you implement, please make it optional. I prefer the existing Thunderbird threaded view, and would not want to see my own messages as part of a thread.

[@realraven2000]

1:38 thats what copy sent to current is for.

[@thunderbirdproject]

Here's the thing though: it's important for important features like this to be native and work out-of-box. The primary reason is that sometimes community developers can no longer maintain an add-on.

[@IntenseWebs]

I despise Conversation View.