Threading on the web archive

Posted Mar 30, 2015 13:12 UTC (Mon) by raimue (subscriber, #95875)
Parent article: Mailman 3.0 to modernize mailing lists

Modernizing the look of the web archive is just eye candy for me, but might be important for others. However, I would prefer to view the web archive like I would in a mail client with subject/sender/date columns.

Furthermore, is it still not possible to follow a thread spanning multiple months? The archive is chunked up by months and I see threads starting with "Re: ..." subjects (maybe they are just cross-posts I can't identify due to missing To/CC?).

Also when viewing a single mail, I totally miss a reference to the parent post. Shouldn't it be possible to add such a link now with stable URLs based on Message-Id and the References/In-Reply-To headers?

I usually rely on Gmane's web interface, because it is able to show the full thread even if the replies arrived multiple months apart. Pipermail in Mailman 2 just can't handle this.

Threading on the web archive

Posted Apr 3, 2015 19:30 UTC (Fri) by lacos (guest, #70616) [Link]

Hello fellow Gmane fan :) (See my longer message above.) You're entirely correct that Gmane introduces no arbitrary separation within a thread, just because of time difference between posts. This is indeed another reason why Gmane is more user-friendly than Mailman 2 (and consequently, more user-friendly than HiperKitty too).

Threading on the web archive

Posted Apr 13, 2015 19:52 UTC (Mon) by sumanah (guest, #59891) [Link] (1 responses)

Thank you for your comment! I've filed a bug https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/ticket/96 and updated a bug https://fedorahosted.org/hyperkitty/ticket/67 so the developers of HyperKitty can improve the software accordingly.

I need to find an example of this, but I have been assured that HyperKitty *will* display threads smoothly across months. If and when I find confirmation either way (that it works or that it doesn't) I'll comment here again to let you know!

Threading on the web archive

Posted Apr 15, 2015 0:34 UTC (Wed) by The_Barbarian (guest, #48152) [Link]

Awesome! Good to see they will work on those issues!