Another black hole

[Dave Hicks]

I don't believe that any of um… whoever it is… who develops myBB makes any claims to be a "power" of any sort and I have no idea if they classify themselves as even "western". They seem to have a fairly typical free software attitude, ie: if you like this stuff - great! If not - enjoy what you prefer!

Last year I used Thunderbird for about 10 months but it kept hanging on me (and sometimes losing data) at random times ranging from hours to weeks. I was hoping they would fix it "soonish" until I found a discussion from 2002 asking when they would finally fix this "long-standing bug". Nonetheless a lot of reviews/lists call Thunderbird one of the best email clients.

As mentioned before, last time I looked, we had one user who used the threaded mode by default. It didn't seem to get much attention when I brought this up on the myBB forum. In fact when I try to google around for it more broadly, I notice that outside of myBB forums, most of the links to threaded mode and bugs in threaded mode are from… this forum - which suggests that the percentage of threaded mode users is very small - quite likely well-below the radar for them.

So, they’ll fix it when they fix it… or not. As far as I know they do not read this forum. (Which might actually be good since some free SW developers don't respond well to pestering.)

From the HP forum point of view, I could remove the threaded view. But since we only had the one user, I didn't remove it because he could just not use it if he doesn't like it. I also considered removing the delete feature but since users of delete greatly outnumber users of the threaded mode, this didn’t seem wise.