Forums and mailing lists

Posted Jan 8, 2026 7:52 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Forums and mailing lists by corbet
Parent article: Mix and match Linux distributions with Distrobox

One simple - to me rofl as a user - improvement would be to have better context. It's good now, but there's a little tweak of an improvement ...

I can't remember whether it's a setting or a default, but unread comments have their read parent above. Each read parent is the root of a tree of comments BUT. Sometimes it's also an immediate child of another read parent. It would be nice if it displayed as child, not root.

Of course, that's easy for me to say, it might not be for you to code! :-)

Apart from that, searching. I just find Thunderbird works great for me. Because I can organise things how I want, everything is local, I'm a grumpy old man who wants everything to work like it did 30 years ago rofl ... I just don't see how web fora can match that ...

And of course, Thunderbird keeps everything in one place. If I have to go to one forum for this, one forum for that, one forum for the other ... I hate push notifications, and Thunderbird is a great intermediary for receiving push notifications and hiding them from me until I'm ready - it's called "unread mail" :-)

Cheers,
Wol