G Mail Threading

[zvi]

I know a lot of people get their dreamwidth comments sent to gmail and a lot of us are unhappy that the threading is not the relatively simple issue it is on LJ.

The only workaround for the issue at the moment is to add subject lines to your comments. That doesn't make the threading work completely right, but at least it means you won't have 40 message 'conversations' from 10 or 12 different DW entries.

If you can't think of a subject line, why not just repeat the subject line of the entry you're reading? If the entry you're reading also does not have a subject line, just repeat the first line of your comment.

I've been trying it for the past couple of days, and it is better. (Not perfect, because I haven't gotten in the habit 100% yet.) But it's better.

Comments

[senmut]

It's a really good idea, and not too bad a habit to have anyway.

Thanks!

Thank you!

[elynross]

Oh, thank you -- I haven't gotten enough DW comments yet to have even noticed! *carefully puts in a subject*

That will take some getting used to.

[par_avion]

This used to happen with LJ back in the early days of Gmail, too. I got my Gmail acct in June 2004, and I remember giving feedback to Gmail about it.

[justabi]

Effort! Woe!

[beet]

Thanks for this. I was just going to post about this asking for a solution. And look! Here you are with an answer!! \o/