On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 13:16, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18/03/2022 14.08, sebb wrote: > > > > > The GUI shows about 25 emails per page on a desktop; far fewer than > > that on a mobile device. > > The only option for browsing all emails is to do so one page at a time. > > It will take ages to get to the last page of a list than has more than > > a few hundreds of emails. > > Furthermore, if you do manage to get to the last page of such a list, > > if you display a thread or source of an email, on return you will be > > taken back to the first page. > > > > Compare this with mod_mbox, which not only allows direct navigation to > > individual pages, it also allows them to be sorted by date or sender. > > It's reasonably easy to get to any part of a month by estimating the > > page number and adjusting as necessary. > > > > This could potentially be fixed, but at present it is a limitation > > compared with other solutions. > > > > First off, it's not a competition here. It's great that mod_mbox allows > to sort by sender, but that doesn't mean our UI is not useable. > > Could we add a 1....N page drop-down or something? Probably easy to do yeah.
But at present that is a limitation. > I don't understand the "taken back to the first page" thing, emails open > in the interface and are closed again with the escape key or by clicking > on the subject. There is no navigating away unless you open the email in > a new window... Go to https://lists.apache.org/[email protected] Click through to last page. Open an email and click on Thread or Source. Click back > > As for sorting by sender, if someone wants that as a feature, they can > create a ticket and we can look at how to potentially implement that, > keeping mobile friendliness in mind.
