<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px">One feature is I need the ability to bookmark where I stop reading during the journey or trip.</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px">A few contributors keep replying with quoted message ate up my mobile data usage significantly especially this thread is getting a long discussion is hard to read on a small screen and I don't use email clients on iPhone.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px"><div><br></div><div>Forum is useful when we need share photos and video.</div><div><br></div></div><br>On Friday, February 3, 2017, Muse M <<a href="mailto:james.lei65@gmail.com">james.lei65@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">One feature is I need the ability to bookmark where I stop reading during the journey or trip.<div><br></div><div>A few contributors keep replying with quoted message ate up my mobile data usage significantly especially this thread is getting a long discussion is hard to read on a small screen and I don't use email clients on iPhone.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Forum is useful when we need share photos and video.<br><br>On Friday, February 3, 2017, Tino Heth via swift-evolution <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','swift-evolution@swift.org');" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>In a mailing list format, everyone is free to start a new thread.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Would a forum have a privilege system that stops newbies from starting threads? I've seen no one proposing that.</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Whether you invented the language or started learning it yesterday, if you have a new idea, it comes into everyone's inbox in exactly the same way. No one's user name has extra flares or trophies or whatever reminding you of their status.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Imho that's just wrong, and this message somewhat proves my point:</div><div>There are several users with a "@<a href="http://apple.com" target="_blank">apple.com</a>" trophy, and I guess most people who spend a significant amount of time on swift-evolution also have developed a preference not only for topics, but also for authors (saving matching posts from being ignored).</div><div><br></div><div>The ability to "like" posts would be a remarkable help for newbies to gather attention for their ideas — not because of the status of the author, but because of the quality of their contribution.</div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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