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

Re: gmail feedback

[zorb]

I might be able to help with this if it was fixed by a Gmail change, not something LJ did. PM if that's the case.

Re: gmail feedback

[denise]

We are nearly positive that it was a Gmail change, since the headers of a LJ comment email are identical to the headers of a DW comment email, and yet Gmail treats them differently.

You can email me and Mark -- the_bosses@dwscoalition.org -- if you know of anything that we can do that will help!