Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> > Over in the issue-tracker thread,
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > > Evidently, the "flat" link is easy to miss.  Give it a try.
> >
> > I submit that the reason people miss what that's for is that it's very
> > unintuitively named.  What about using "whole thread" instead of "flat"?
> >
> > ("flat" is fine as a component of the resulting URL.  Just not as the
> > button label.)
> 
> That's easy enough to change.  Another option might be "linear"? But I'm
> guessing what you're trying to convey is especially the whole thread part,
> rather than the "orientation"?

I think "whole thread" is easier to catch for newcomers, so +1 for that
(but keep "flat" as the URL itself.)

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