On Tuesday, 25 April 2023 at 12:30, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Dominik Mierzejewski: > > > You don't have threaded replies, either. And quoting the post you're > > replying to is entirely non-intuitive. It took me a while to discover > > that you have to click on the "speech bubble" icon inside the editor that > > opens after you click reply. > > In some instances at least, you can select the text in the fragment you > are replying to, and a quote button will appear. I at least found that > quite discoverable. You have to use your mouse to do it, which is too disrupting for me. > >> Renaming topics works in a much saner way. > >> You can deal with 'cross-posting' in a much saner and more flexible > >> way. Quoting is always a problem everywhere, but that's only *one* > >> thing, at least. :D > > > > Quoting and threading are the fundamental features in text-based > > non-realtime conversations, so switching to a medium that offers > > inferior quoting and no threading is questionable at best. > > I tend to agree, but most clients only offer rudimentary support to show > the metadata that's there. Nowadays, a lot of people pick a random > message in a thread and reply to that, disregarding what that particular > message contributed to the conversation. I can't really blame them > because in the interfaces they are used do, it does not make a > difference for presentation purposes. That seems to be the sad reality of many of the web-based forums I sometimes visit, so yes, my anecdotal evidence confirms your observations. > I'm not sure if nested threading > in email ever went mainstream, to be honest. It depends on the mailing lists you are subscribed to. The technical ones tend to make use of threading efficiently. > Discourse and similar tools may merely reflect that lack of > familiarity. No argument there. > I couldn't consume the volume of mail I process without it because > nested threading still works on most of the technical lists I frequent, > but I suppose it's a dying art. Call me a dinosaur. ;) I have no intention of dying out any time soon, though. ;) Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
