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Try opening that link on a phone. You get tiny, hard-to-read text because of course it's monospace with hardcoded line breaks. GP's point is that convenience a
by int_19h 1y ago
Try opening that link on a phone. You get tiny, hard-to-read text because of course it's monospace with hardcoded line breaks.
GP's point is that convenience and long-term thinking don't have to be an either-or. We should have convenient tools that don't require proprietary silos but work well on today's devices and with today's use cases.
- SoftTalker 1y agoYes, ideally for a web archive the text should be flowed and styling responsive. That’s a flaw of the web site not the use of email lists.
- int_19h 1y agoYou will inevitably need to use the website at some point to find past discussions about such and such. And, somehow, all mailing list software seems to have this kind of web UI. But also, part of the problem is the use of email lists. Or rather, specifically, plain text emails, because they contain pre-wrapped lines, and users often assume monospace font. You can try to reflow, but in general it's not possible to determine whether any given line break is there because the line just needed to be wrapped, or because it's actually meaningful (for code, diagram etc).