Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 01:30:08 -0400 From: "Jaskaran Veer Singh" <lists@jaskaran.org> To: "Ian Smith" <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: <postmaster@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken User Experience - online mailing list Message-ID: <CKT0HAFSNQ3C.1X7OIZH7WI9SV@eniac.local> In-Reply-To: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au> References: <2E1B782A-DB40-41B1-A036-A790C4DCC409@nimnet.asn.au>
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Adding to that, I'd love to see mailing list name automatically preprended = to the subject line. It helps with quickly knowing what list the message is fr= om. Other mailing lists (not FreeBSD) that I follow have this feature. Opinions? -- Jaskaran On Sat Jun 18, 2022 at 1:15 AM EDT, Ian Smith wrote: > Hi folks, cc: postmaster@ > > I've been partly keeping up with questions@ online the last year or so, t= hrough the change from pipermail to mlmmj and attendant loss of functionali= ty, but still quite usable. > > Until a week or two ago, when the latest radical change has completely br= oken the ability to smoothly traverse the latest or any previous month's me= ssages when read By Thread, namely: > > Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, ther= e 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 t= he last one. > > As it's recently been changed to, you have to choose, one at a time, whic= h 'sub-thread' to view, at the end of which you're stuck. Unless you hit '= back' through that sub-thread to the first and then select the next Reply, = which is very tedious on slow connections. > > 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. > > The only other option is to press 'back' after reading each message, wher= e you at least can pick the next message from index, also tedious. > > If that doesn't make sense, try for yourself: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-June/index.html > > Try the thread(s) > > "OT: typing with broken arm" > > and try reading (or skimming) all messages in that thread. > > 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. > > cheers old friends, Ian > > PS Please cc me on any reply.
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