Chronological Order
Eric,
I have tested Thread View #2 and am considering rolling it out onto my Manilia server. I like it very much.
One jarring discovery that thread view reinforced is this: Userland DGs present messages at the same outline level in reverse chronological order, more recent messages are above previous messages. I understand why Userland would make this design decision, but it is NOT intuitive, especially when responses nest correctly below the message they are responding too. Below means later!
This is obvious using threadView. I think you got it right on this one and I would like to see Userland change the DG to reflect the actual chronological order.
What do you think?
Ken,
PS, do you get a copy of this response mailed to you? Is that a function of Manila, or your mailserver software?
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Ken,
I have tested Thread View #2 and am considering rolling it out onto my Manilia server. I like it very much.
Why thank you. I certainly like it. In fact, I spent an hour this weekend hacking it into may mailserver. It really makes mailing lists a lot easier to read.
One jarring discovery that thread view reinforced is this: Userland DGs present messages at the same outline level in reverse chronological order, more recent messages are above previous messages.
I can see why one would want to have recent messages first. If you are reading the thread off of one message, then it makes sense that as you scroll, you want the ones that you haven’t read on top. However if you’re not scrolling to get to the thread view, then that argument goes away. That being said, I really like the way it’s working for me.
I would like to see Userland change the DG to reflect the actual
chronological order. What do you think?
I’ll provide the alternatives, I don’t think that this is something that I want to drive onto Userland.
PS, do you get a copy of this response mailed to you? Is that a function of Manila, or your mailserver software?
I have the email notification turned off, since it was emailing me whenever I posted something. That drove me nuts.