Re: Broken User Experience - online mailing list

From: Ian Smith <smithi_at_nimnet.asn.au>
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 03:30:28 UTC 
On 18 June 2022 7:18:59 pm AEST, Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> wrote:
 > On Saturday, 18 June 2022 06:15:15 BST Ian Smith wrote:
 > 
 > > 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.
 > 
 > When faced with this type of problem with web based lists I generally
 > open the 
 > message in a new tab so that I can quickly switch back to the list to
 > read the 
 > next item.
 

I've been doing exactly that with the FreeBSD forums, winding up with several kept topics, usually following up on links people post.

I'd find it overkill for every message on lists like these though, as mostly I'm just reading a thread serially - unless I find something helpful to me, or of particular interest to explore.

Thanks Mike, cheers Ian