Re: New archives layout is not an improvement

> On Apr 18, 2018, at 4:04 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 9:16 AM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
>>> So I see the new website design has just gone live.  While I don't
>>> have much of an opinion on the front page, I do have to say that
>>> I find the new layout of the mail archive display to be near unusable.
>
>> We’re on it. Thanks!
>
> Speaking of the archives, it would be nice if they were browsable on a
> mobile device without having to scroll horizontally.
>
> It's hard to sensibly display plaintext e-mail that's 80 columns in
> width on a mobile device. Maybe some scheme that is better than "use a
> smaller font" is possible. For example, perhaps there is some
> sophisticated algorithm that can remove newlines without breaking too
> much. I understand that there is probably some subtlety that doesn't
> occur to me here. It would be nice if we could do better, somehow.

Not a bad idea. I don’t know if we can get that out tonight based on how
archives are deployed, but perhaps that can be something we follow-up on.

Of course, if something happens to not be 80 chars there’s only so much we
can do.

Jonathan