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

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named
Date: 2015-09-24 22:01:36
Message-ID: CAM3SWZS7oiUrWDE+X0zXWLfjM7OdPeLT_r4OPAqRiRsy_0vwtw@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.)

+1.

I would like to see the archive web interface configurable to accept
"flat" (or whatever it is renamed to) as a default. I understand that
a number of people have made this request, and work is pending on it.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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