@gwmngilfen Glad you like it! And thanks for asking!
It's a tricky question; we are lacking a venue for general discussions. Github issues and IRC are all we've got. The problem of course is that I mostly want issues to be actual issues, and IRC is too ephemeral.
If it's more impressions and not actual bugs, maybe just send me an e-mail at [email protected]? Or if you have a blog, more people writing about Mailpile is never a bad thing...
@HerraBRE A blog post is not a bad idea, it's been too long since I wrote anything. Crazy weekend coming up, I hope I remember my points by next week :)
Side note: I'm already running 3 separate Discourse instances for various communities. I can highly recommend it if you decide you *do* want a discussion venue.
@HerraBRE A blog is you! It's a wordy one, but I hope it's useful - please take all criticism as constructive, you've got a great project here.
https://emeraldreverie.org/blog/2018/10/03/first-impressions-mailpile/
@gwmngilfen OK, quick skim done. Thanks for writing that!
My main take-away is that a lot of what Mailpile does is undiscoverable and our docs suck. Both of which I knew, but it's always useful to have clear data about which things are confusing.
A lot of the things you concluded were impossible or broken, are actually possible. So the article is factually incorrect in a few places, but as a first impression if I take all "statements of fact" as "impressions", it's extremely useful feedback.
@HerraBRE I just re-read it myself, and realised I missed one of my feedback items - the difference between dragging a tag to a mail, and dragging a mail to a tag.
I figured out dragging mail quickly (that's expected, and the handles show up nicely once some mail is selected). But I only even realised you *could* drag tags after finding a discussion of the two forms ... somewhere? I was searching for a "Tags" menu within the message pane.
I should go add that to the post, I guess...
@HerraBRE same can be said for the saved-searches-as-a-tag, which I found in between auto-learning tags and manually-made mailing-list filters. It was quite a journey over the first 3 days ;)
I think that is more discoverable, I just didn't notice how "Edit" changes to "Save" when you make a search.
@HerraBRE Glad it's helpful! I suspected that most of what I found impossible wouldn't actually be, so apologies if it comes over as "there's no way to do this". It's more meant to say "I couldn't figure out how to do this". Overall my goal is to highlight things that long-term users will know and instinctively do/not do, and because it's "obvious" it never gets documented.
I'll be happy to publish a 2nd post of corrections if you want to point me to how to accomplish things :)
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