Re: New archives layout is not an improvement

> On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:46 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 08:40:46AM -0400, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2018, at 2:20 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 04:34:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>>>>> We’ve made a deploy to help with the browsing and reading experiences
>>>>> that you have mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> This is definitely an improvement, thanks!
>>>
>>> I like the message page density now, but the loss of index page
>>> (e.g. https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/since/201804181425)
>>> density is still dramatic. My viewport that formerly fit 43 subject lines now
>>> fits 14.
>>
>> How do you feel about scrolling on this page in a mobile view?
>
> (I had never used the archives on mobile, so don't give much weight to my
> opinion about the mobile experience. I have now tried.) This particular page
> could be ~twice as dense before I would start to zoom on a 5" screen.

Alright, so a bunch of changes to allow for more “information density” have
been deployed today. Things should be much more usable per above specs
now, but please let me know if you notice anything else.

One thing being worked on separately is how much space the floating navigation
bar takes up, which should also help with how much info is viewable on a given
page.

Jonathan