Last time I heard, Thunderbird has zero people on it for years but eventually they manage to afford to pay someone part time to work on it :smh:

e2le 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Thunderbird is quite healthy and received $8.6M in donations in 2023[0] which is used to employ 24 people[1].

Unlike Firefox, donations are used to fund development.

	▲	godshatter 7 months ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I guess what we need is a non-profit fork of Firefox that takes donations directly and focuses only on the browser.
	▲	alfiedotwtf 7 months ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		To be honest, I'm pleasantly surprised. Thanks for the info.

I did change quite significantly in recent times, so there is certainly work done.

On the other hand it is a mail client and it does exactly what it is supposed to do for years on end. And I believe it is the best mail client too.