(In reply to newsfan from comment #6) > As a personal off-topic remark: Why don't you fix some still-open regressions in version 91 before they hit 102 before embarking on new projects? Like adding attachments is still not fully working (bug 1732903). You are correct, it is off topic and therefore not relevant to this bug report. Each issue should pass or fail, move forward or not, on its own merits. (In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #0) > > We should update our message list to be threaded by default. > > Can you please give a reason for this? IMHO, threaded view is more for geeks, not the common users who will make up the largest part of the user community. I've always been surprised it is not the default. However, whether or not one population is larger than the other, I don't see how geek has a different need than the common user in this area. Please explain. > > If the user didn't touch that pref, newly created folders will be threaded by default ... > > That will cause a mixup and huge user disappointment. Changing well-established preference defaults is really a "no go zone". If you later decide to change it back, you will affect all the users who had changed it in the first place since their value will become the new default and hence not be stored any more. This approach ignores the possibliity that a "well-established" preference perhaps didn't even consider making a differnt default at the time the functionality was introducted, or that conditions or user patterns have changed in ten or twenty years. But your observation that telemetry data might help is a good one. However that means examining multiple folders, not a centralied preference, no?
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(In reply to newsfan from comment #6) > As a personal off-topic remark: Why don't you fix some still-open regressions in version 91 before they hit 102 before embarking on new projects? Like adding attachments is still not fully working (bug 1732903). You are correct, it is off topic and therefore not relevant to this bug report. Each issue should pass or fail, move forward or not, on its own merits. (In reply to Alessandro Castellani [:aleca] from comment #0) > > We should update our message list to be threaded by default. > > Can you please give a reason for this? IMHO, threaded view is more for geeks, not the common users who will make up the largest part of the user community. I've always been surprised it is not the default. However, whether or not one population is larger than the other, I don't see how geek has a different need than the common user in this area. Please explain. > > If the user didn't touch that pref, newly created folders will be threaded by default ... > > That will cause a mixup and huge user disappointment. Changing well-established preference defaults is really a "no go zone". If you later decide to change it back, you will affect all the users who had changed it in the first place since their value will become the new default and hence not be stored any more. This approach ignores the possibliity that a "well-established" preference perhaps didn't even consider making a differnt default at the time the functionality was introducted, or that conditions or user patterns have changed in ten or twenty years. But your observation that telemetry data might help is a good one. However that means examining multiple folders, not a centralized preference, no?