Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 15:15:15 +1000 From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: postmaster@freebsd.org Subject: Broken User Experience - online mailing list Message-ID: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au>
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Hi folks, cc: postmaster@ I've been partly keeping up with questions@ online the last year or so, th= rough the change from pipermail to mlmmj and attendant loss of functionalit= y, but still quite usable=2E=20 Until a week or two ago, when the latest radical change has completely bro= ken the ability to smoothly traverse the latest or any previous month's mes= sages when read By Thread, namely: Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, there= are only (possibly multiple) Reply links, and Reply To links back, but no = "next / previous message in thread" links, which a) allowed full traversal = of all messages in the thread, and b) moving on to the next thread after th= e last one=2E As it's recently been changed to, you have to choose, one at a time, which= 'sub-thread' to view, at the end of which you're stuck=2E Unless you hit = 'back' through that sub-thread to the first and then select the next Reply,= which is very tedious on slow connections=2E Worse, there's no way, as before, to view the whole list again from where = you're up to, to choose another such rabbithole, but you're thrown back to = the very top of the list, having to page down to find your place again=2E The only other option is to press 'back' after reading each message, where= you at least can pick the next message from index, also tedious=2E If that doesn't make sense, try for yourself: https://lists=2Efreebsd=2Eorg/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-June/index= =2Ehtml Try the thread(s) "OT: typing with broken arm" and try reading (or skimming) all messages in that thread=2E So, can this please be restored to how it was, not with pipermail (sadly) = but at least to where it was a couple of weeks ago? If so, I have some on-topic questions, but I must subscribe without email = delivery until I get a machine going=2E cheers old friends, Ian PS Please cc me on any reply=2E
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