> Since you can't really quantify these properties (as opposed to: the problem is either solved or not)
I think we could quantify these properties, just not entirely.
One could take a long-term project and analyze how often or which approaches resulted in a refactor. In the same way, we could also quantify designs that resulted in vulnerabilities (that we know of) the most often.
It even wouldn't be impossible to create artificial scenarios. Projects that have an increasing number of requirements, see how many code changes are required, how many bugs result from that. Again, quantifiable to some extent. Probably better than datasets totally lacking something like that.
There probably isn't a public dataset on this, but it wouldn't be impossible.
I would suspect that some of the slowdown that the author encountered does occur with even a dozen or so add-ons. Why else would Firefox bother you about resetting your profile if you haven't returned in a while?
Judging from the side it seems like there aren't a lot of developers and the current few have their favorite subsystems, those get almost all of the attention. The rest is kept as-is and does not progress. I also don't know if there's a trivial way to find how many external contributions they get from BugZilla, if they even get any?
I've tried so many while doing a bit of research into MUAs and I can't say there are any alternatives that could replace it properly. But depending on your usage or if you're not a demanding user, there might be something out there.
> If you don't click that last button, outlook uploads your IMAP email credentials to their own MS Cloud instance, and that proxies all your emails via microsoft's cloud servers. Do they read your email messages for advertising? Nobody knows!
I've seen cases where people have it set up like that and it's so awfully slow. Minutes to display a single new message. That cloud brings absolutely zero user-benefit.
I saw a tweet saying that there's a requirement for verification.
> Effective October 16, 2025, Microsoft will initiate mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program who have not completed account verification since April 2024.
> Partners who fail to complete Account Verification by the deadline, or who do not meet the requirements, will have their status set to Rejected and will be suspended from the program.
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