Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > > Over in the issue-tracker thread,
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > Evidently, the "flat" link is easy to miss. Give it a try.
> > >
> > > I submit that the reason people miss what that's for is that it's very
> > > unintuitively named. What about using "whole thread" instead of
> "flat"?
> > >
> > > ("flat" is fine as a component of the resulting URL. Just not as the
> > > button label.)
> >
> > That's easy enough to change. Another option might be "linear"? But I'm
> > guessing what you're trying to convey is especially the whole thread
> part,
> > rather than the "orientation"?
>
> I think "whole thread" is easier to catch for newcomers, so +1 for that
> (but keep "flat" as the URL itself.)
>

I've deployed this change on the system. It will trickle out to the
different threads as they expire from the cache.

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