<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 17, 2018, at 02:56, Ethan Furman <<a href="mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us" class="">ethan@stoneleaf.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I find the presentation of threaded conversations in linear format to be confusing, figuring out what I have and have not read to be difficult, and the overall frustration to not be worth it.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Are there any linear-formatted communication methods that you find more comfortable? Or is the entire idea not workable for you?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul Moore also raised the issue you're mentioning around "figuring out what I have and have not read". Discourse is supposed to help with this with a timeline view and a "Back" button. So far the "Back" button behavior is to say the least surprising to us, if not just buggy. Some discussion here:</div><div class=""><a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/is-this-really-better-than-a-mailing-list/57/19?u=ambv" class="">https://discuss.python.org/t/is-this-really-better-than-a-mailing-list/57/19?u=ambv</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree we need to address this for Discourse to be a proper upgrade over mailing lists.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Ł</div></body></html>