Re: Hackorum - a new mailing list frontend

Hi!

I took a quick look and here a couple of things I've found:

- Threads with more than a couple of messages take a very long time to
load (many dozens of seconds).
- The search is also relatively slow.
- I find it difficult to match the thread outline to the actual message.
Making a visual connection between the thread outline and the currently
viewed message would be helpful.

David

On 16.01.2026 15:29, Zsolt Parragi wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Last year at pgconf.dev there was a discussion about improving the
> user interface for the hackers mailing list. Based on that discussion,
> I would like to share a small project we have been working on for some
> time:
>
> https://hackorum.dev/
>
> Hackorum provides a read-only (for now) web view of the mailing list
> with a more forum-like presentation. It already includes a number of
> useful features, such as:
>
> * continuous mailing list synchronization (the site is subscribed to the list)
> * commitfest integration (synchronized once per day)
> * per-message read status for logged-in users
> * user profiles, including contributor/committer status from the main website
> * statistics
> * additional logged-in user features (starring threads, tags, notes,
> mentions on messages and threads)
> * basic team support (sharing reading status, mentioned tags and notes)
> * integrating the "resend email" feature from the official archive
> * importing read status / tags from CSV files (to help migration from
> email based workflows)
>
> And the main features we plan to implement in the near future:
>
> * sending emails using the web ui (initially using the gmail api for
> users logged in with their google account, who also separately
> authorized sending messages)
> * advanced search functionality
> * integrating other mailing lists
>
> At this stage, we are mainly interested in feedback: whether this is
> useful at all, and if you have suggestions on how it could be improved
> (bug fixes, new features, changes in behavior, etc.). Contributions
> are of course also welcome; we have tried to make the development
> setup easy to work with:
>
> https://github.com/Percona-Lab/hackorum
>
>