Wish: better formatted emails
by Orion Elenzil · in Site Feedback · 05/30/2006 (1:24 pm) · 4 replies
It's cool that the GG forums email you when a new post is made to a thread you're watching.
it'd be even cooler if it did a little filtering on the body-text of the new post tho.
specifically, strip-out forum-tags like URLs and Bold and stuff. (eg open bracket, "url", close bracket).
- this would both make the emails prettier, and make the links actually clickable in the email client.
and don't escape backslashes and single-quotes.
compare this screenshot of a nicely formatted forum post
with the corresponding email, viewed in thunderbird:
- note that "[b" is appended to what thunderbird thinks is the URL.
edit: made images more clearly images and not text body
it'd be even cooler if it did a little filtering on the body-text of the new post tho.
specifically, strip-out forum-tags like URLs and Bold and stuff. (eg open bracket, "url", close bracket).
- this would both make the emails prettier, and make the links actually clickable in the email client.
and don't escape backslashes and single-quotes.
compare this screenshot of a nicely formatted forum post
with the corresponding email, viewed in thunderbird:
- note that "[b" is appended to what thunderbird thinks is the URL.
edit: made images more clearly images and not text body
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#3
03/22/2007 (3:10 pm)
Quote:
---Post---------------------------------------------------------
From Developer: Tom Spilman
Link to Post: http://www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=59494
Not that i can\\\'t... just that i don\\\'t think it\\\'s the most productive route.
#4
in the email i just got from that, each apsotrophe is preceded by fifteen backslashes! woo!
03/22/2007 (3:19 pm)
Lol!in the email i just got from that, each apsotrophe is preceded by fifteen backslashes! woo!
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and adding to the wish:
it might also be cool if replying to the email itself was sufficient for posting a reply to the thread.
the jira bug-tracking system does this, and i really appreciate it.
dangers of this:
* the software needs to filter out the original body of the message, or else you get the entire thread echo'd in every post.
* you get people's auto-reply messages & bounces, altho i think those can be filtered out.
* folks are more likely to reply to a post before reading/catching-up on the entire thread.
so, maybe not worth the hassle, but probably worth considering.