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Comment by JaggedJax | Hacker News Reader

To be fair, they are comparing a best case scenario email in the current UI to a worst case email in the new UI. Multi-line subject, multi-account identifier, tags, external images. So it looks to me like there's actually higher information density in the new UI. A little difficult to tell without a direct comparison of the same email and settings though.

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They're also saying the padding “will get tightened up” [1].

I'd also do some other changes though [2], like removing that border around the “Show remote images” button and instead letting it bleed to the whole panel (a trick I've first seen in the Telegram app).

[1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/12/thunderbird-for-android...

[2]: https://u.ale.sh/tb-redesign-suggestions.png

Yeah, I do think they had a bit of a faux pas with this showcase by not showing like-for-like differences. The first email didn't have multi-line subjects or anything like that, so it's hard to compare the two and see why the update might actually be better.

I agree.

It looks to me like the only place they're really wasting space is the hefty margin above the body text.

I don't know. Seems like everything is twice or three times as large.

Click on who else was the message sent to -> appears a big box that you have to scroll to figure out who is included.

yeah I was irritated by that as well, it makes it much harder to compare the designs. I think I prefer the new one though, the old one does look a little clunky

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