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[Nico Weber]

Hi,

since 2ish days ago, every message on blink-dev ends with a header saying "To view this discussion on the web visit $LONG_URL". This URL is different for every single message, so gmail won't fold it away.

Since many emails are just 1-2 short lines long, this automatic line causes adds significant noise to blink-dev threads. Can we get rid of it again?

I guess the motivation for it is to be able to quickly link to threads, if that's necessary. Maybe there are less intrusive approaches for that? Things I can think of:

0.) Just copying the subject line into a search engine almost always gives me the link to a thread in the groups interface anyhow – good enough, remove the line, do nothing else

1.) Have this link only in the first message on a thread

2.) Have some optional chrome extension that adds a "link for this thread" button to gmail.

3.) If this is only bothering me and nobody else, leave the line in, do nothing else

Thanks,

Nico

[Scott Graham]

I agitated for turning it on, assuming it would be sometimes useful, and would be elided by gmail in the "signature" (perhaps unfairly for people using other mail readers).

It's too noisy when it's there all the time though, I agree.

However, in the mail you just sent it _was_ elided... so maybe gmail recently fixed that? Or it takes a while for it to recognize that it's something that should be hidden?

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[PhistucK]

Nope, your message has it and it is not elided.

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[Thiago Farina]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Nico Weber <tha...@google.com> wrote:
> 3.) If this is only bothering me and nobody else, leave the line in, do
> nothing else
>

It's annoying me too! A short link to the thread is enough for me.
Like the one we receive from codereview.

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[Eric Seidel]

Yeah, I thought it was a good idea, but now that we have it I find it
very distracting when reading threads.

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[Nico Weber]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Scott Graham <sco...@chromium.org> wrote:

I agitated for turning it on, assuming it would be sometimes useful, and would be elided by gmail in the "signature" (perhaps unfairly for people using other mail readers).

It's too noisy when it's there all the time though, I agree.

However, in the mail you just sent it _was_ elided... so maybe gmail recently fixed that? Or it takes a while for it to recognize that it's something that should be hidden?

I still see this on threads. Example: http://imgur.com/kPk0Y1E Do you remember who you agitated? It seems to have metastasized to chromium-dev too.

[William Chan (陈智昌)]

I asked Mark to do this. I personally like it, but if it's bothering people, I think it's better to err on the side of disabling this feature until we know that most people want this.

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[jyas...@chromium.org]

FYI, I filed b/9922134 about gmail's failure to hide this text. Those of you inside Google can watch that to know when it makes sense to turn this on again.