Re: Pgarchives message thread page design

Hello,

On 2022-Aug-07, Sahil Harpal wrote:

> As a part of improvement of pgarchives, I would like to ask community about
> the problems you have been facing in using message thread page (eg.
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220701002034.GA9030%40tamriel.snowman.net)
> and also potential solutions that might help to improve user experience to
> some extent.

I have two pet peeves: the first is that the "Cc" and "To" lists of each
email include names and obfuscated email addresses.  Printing obfuscated
email addresses seems pointless, it looks ugly and this also renders
these fields illegible when many people are involved in a thread.  Maybe
don't print email addresses at all: like in the monthly views, just
print people's names.

If we think visitors require access to the email addresses, let's hide
them somehow and prevent bots from capturing them en-masse.  Crazy idea:
if you click a name then a popup gives you that individual address after
solving some captcha.  (I'd rather not have the addresses at all.)
Another crazy idea: only allow access to the email address when
authenticated.

Make an exception with our own mailing list addresses: if we detect that
an address is pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org or
pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, then print just "pgsql-hackers" and
ignore the name part that comes with the message header.


The other is usability of the message-id: I think it would be very
useful to have a button next to the message-id field, such that it
copies the message-ID to the system clipboard, without url-escaping (@
-> %40 and so on), so that it can be used for local message-id
searching; also without the rest of the archive URL.

Thanks

-- 
Álvaro Herrera