Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
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>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> > > Over in the issue-tracker thread,
>> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > > > Evidently, the "flat" link is easy to miss. Give it a try.
>> > >
>> > > I submit that the reason people miss what that's for is that it's very
>> > > unintuitively named. What about using "whole thread" instead of
>> "flat"?
>> > >
>> > > ("flat" is fine as a component of the resulting URL. Just not as the
>> > > button label.)
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>> > That's easy enough to change. Another option might be "linear"? But I'm
>> > guessing what you're trying to convey is especially the whole thread
>> part,
>> > rather than the "orientation"?
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>> I think "whole thread" is easier to catch for newcomers, so +1 for that
>> (but keep "flat" as the URL itself.)
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> I've deployed this change on the system. It will trickle out to the
> different threads as they expire from the cache.
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+1

May be move the link to some more visible place than end of header line,
which people usually ignore. I suggest to replace "Thread:" by "Whole
Thread:" and make it linkable. Also, add explanation text into ALT tag.

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