Broken User Experience - online mailing list

Hi folks,  cc: postmaster@

I've been partly keeping up with questions@ online the last year or so, through the change from pipermail to mlmmj and attendant loss of functionality, but still quite usable. 

Until a week or two ago, when the latest radical change has completely broken the ability to smoothly traverse the latest or any previous month's messages when read By Thread, namely:

Instead of linking messages to next and previous messages in thread, there are only (possibly multiple) Reply links, and Reply To links back, but no "next / previous message in thread" links, which a) allowed full traversal of all messages in the thread, and b) moving on to the next thread after the last one.

As it's recently been changed to, you have to choose, one at a time, which 'sub-thread' to view, at the end of which you're stuck.  Unless you hit 'back' through that sub-thread to the first and then select the next Reply, which is very tedious on slow connections.

Worse, there's no way, as before, to view the whole list again from where you're up to, to choose another such rabbithole, but you're thrown back to the very top of the list, having to page down to find your place again.

The only other option is to press 'back' after reading each message, where you at least can pick the next message from index, also tedious.

If that doesn't make sense, try for yourself:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2022-June/index.html

Try the thread(s)

        "OT: typing with broken arm"

and try reading (or skimming) all messages in that thread.

So, can this please be restored to how it was, not with pipermail (sadly) but at least to where it was a couple of weeks ago?

If so, I have some on-topic questions, but I must subscribe without email delivery until I get a machine going.

cheers old friends, Ian

PS Please cc me on any reply.