It's been renamed from "Thread Breaker", hasn't it? Because it's still called that in the screenshot of the 'More' menu, alongside "Split the Thread".
(Thread Splitter's a much better name :)
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#22I have never understood gmails features. They consitantly do not work for me, maybe the way i use email is too old school or something. Threads are consistently broken, the messages are in the wrong order and are almost never grouped logically with seemingly random emails getting placed in same thread. The new tab system seems to only be right about 30% of the time, I constantly have extreamly important emails going…
Just use Thunderbird. Even Outlook and Apple Mail are better.
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#23Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let alone useful enough to enough people to warrant extended time on the HN front page.
Can somebody (who won't presuppose my motivation or my opinion) answer my question?
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#24Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let alone useful enough to enough people to warrant extended time on the HN front page. Can somebody (who won't presuppose my motivation or my opinion) answer my question?
Our users have asked for this for 2 use cases:
1) You send an email bcc'ing a bunch of people. Those people start responding, Gmail threads it into 1 thread. Sometimes you want this and sometimes you don't
2) The topic of a thread changes and you want to split the thread into two logical threads.
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#25For someone who runs into this issue quite often; this is a great add-on. You'd be surprised how many issues and embarrassing emails have arisen due to Gmail incorrectly threading emails. Great job Streak :) p.s. Is it just me, but I can't fathom why the Gmail team doesn't scoop these guys up ASAP :)
Yes, it's so obvious it's hard to see why Google hasn't implemented it already. I wonder what will happen with this project, unlikely that Google would acquire something rather than assign a small team to fix this within a week?
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#26Bravo. Ignore the haters who haven't run into thread issues and thus believe no one else can possibly run into these issues. "Just change the subject!" Clearly these people have never sent a bulk email, or considered the fact that others may use email differently from them. Really tired of this mentality of "I don't have complete information but I think I'm great thus I'm just going to assume you are clueless".
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let alone useful enough to enough people to warrant extended time on the HN front page. Can somebody (who won't presuppose my motivation or my opinion) answer my question?
If you receive many mails from a form in a web page, and all of them have the same subject and have a small time difference, the Gmail puts all of them in a single thread. If you need to track the answers of each user individually, it becomes a mess.
(One possible solution is editing the formail.php to hnge the emails subjects and make them different, for example add the submitter name, the submission hour. Last time, I just added a random number, it's slightly confusing but it solves the problem.)
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let alone useful enough to enough people to warrant extended time on the HN front page. Can somebody (who won't presuppose my motivation or my opinion) answer my question?
Our users have asked for this for 2 use cases: 1) You send an email bcc'ing a bunch of people. Those people start responding, Gmail threads it into 1 thread. Sometimes you want this and sometimes you don't 2) The topic of a thread changes and you want to split the thread into two logical threads.
alooPotato: Is there way to split it off to another thread while keeping the same subject?
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our users have asked for this for 2 use cases: 1) You send an email bcc'ing a bunch of people. Those people start responding, Gmail threads it into 1 thread. Sometimes you want this and sometimes you don't 2) The topic of a thread changes and you want to split the thread into two logical threads.
alooPotato: Is there way to split it off to another thread while keeping the same subject?
Currently we have this limitation where the new thread has to have a different subject but we're working on removing that restriction. Should be a few more days before thats ready.
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#29Another amazing feature from the Streak team. My whole company is thoroughly addicted.
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