On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 11:43 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > As a strictly email client user I hope fewer people will use the HyperKitty interface > > > with these mis-features. :-) > > > > It's feature creep. The unwarranted desire to turn a simple archive > > page into a full-featured web forum interface, which AFAIK nobody asked > > for and which doesn't appear to really work. > > I don't think that's quite fair. It seems like it works > reasonably well to me. Clearly there are folks who use it > and while this quoting attribution issue is confusing, there > are many folks who post regularly from mail clients that > cause as much confusion by poorly quoting and/or using bad > html to plain text conversions, etc. That's true. Of course they shouldn't be posting in HTML in the first place (as per the list Guidelines) but I take your point. > > This is a mailing list. It's incomprehensible to me that > > anyone would want to use a clunky web interface instead of > > a mail client (even if it's a web email client) for > > functions which are specific to email. > > I can't imagine how anyone uses most mail clients, web and > GUI mail clients seem awful to me. But as long as the mail > arrives to me in decent form, I don't much care how it got > to me. :) We'll have to agree to differ. I'm reasonably happy with Evolution. > The hyperkitty archiver has definitely improved on several > long-standing issues with the previous pipermail archiver. The front page for the month of March shows the most recent 10 messages with a lot of white space. Compare the Evolution (old-style) list archive: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2017-March/thread.html I know which is more useful to me. For one thing the old-style page shows all of March. I can also sort it by Date or by Author. To find (say) messages from around March 25 in HK, I have to click through an unknown number of intermediate pages and even then the dates of messages are not shown unless I open them. There's apparently no way to search for a specific date so I guess I have to do mental arithmetic to figure out how old the message is relative to the present. > If a message ever needs to be removed or otherwise edited in > the archive, it no longer invalidates links to all the > messages in the archive. That may be so, in which case it's a plus, but more for the admins than for the users. > And it's now much easier to link to a thread and all the > messages in it instead of only to individual messages. An example of a link to a thread: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2017-March/msg00087.html poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
