Re: Mailing list archives – design ideas

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 12:16 AM Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>
> Where was this positive feedback on this point? On this thread I see
> one message strongly against and one positive.

I believe there's been some discussions in other forums as well, but
I'm not sure entirely how much past the initial one.

> Count me as a second negative.

For which part?

> That's in response to this:
>
> > The general feedback seems to be:
> >
> > 1) Reversed chronology – generally liked
>
> Confusing isn't it?

Also, there's no reason we can't have both a forward and a reverse
chronological order that one can switch between. (And then we can
bikeshed about which one is the default)

> > 2) Grouped by thread – needs more thought
>
> Thread-oriented views are nice. The feedback was that we already had
> one. Perhaps we just need to make it the primary view?

Um, isn't the thread oriented view the one that *is* the default?

> > 3) Considered narrower screens – needs more thought
>
> Reactive displays are good. But just making things only work on a
> narrow screen isn't. It needs to work well for both orientations.

Absolutely. We should not make any such changes if it makes it *worse*
for the cases where it works now. (FWIW, it also doesn't work too well
on very wide screns today -- the message view does, but not the list
views)

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