Re: Need "subscribe to this list" link from archives

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's enough to just have a well-placed link to the general
>> subscription form?
>
> That was my attention at first, except that there are a couple hundred
> lists on the "choose list" drop-down, and they're alphabetically
> ordered, which means the first two dozen or so are region-specific lists.

Uh? It's 77 lists. Of which 69 are shown. That's pretty far from "a
couple of hundred".

That said, it would be nice to make that thing a bit neater. Not sure
how easy it is to do under the standard form, but with a custom
template we should be able to use optgroup tags at least. That should
make it more user friendly - you think it would be enough?

Otherwise I guess we could create one form for each subgroup - e.g. a
/community/lists/subscribe/developer/. But that seems like a worse
solution to the potential problem.

Actually, maybe a good option is to link to
/community/lists/subscribe/#pgsql-hackers (or whatever), and then have
a javascript run on that page that sets the default value of the
dropdown to whatever is in the anchor link?

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