Conversation view on email, why don't people use it?

[Scam]

Or whatever it's called in your preferred email application. Sheesh, why do so many people not use this?

People that keep ignoring more recent replies and replying to one about 3-4 emails back. Argh! Talk about confusing the matter. And talking to people about email chains to clarify something and you realise they are reading about 5-6 emails back as if it was the latest reply. Make this madness stop!

 

[glenimp617]

because most implementations are garbage. I'm scrolling down one right now and can see the same sentence four times, not to mention it's very hard to work out which is the latest one.....you'd think it should be at the top!

I do agree, that IF done right it's brilliant

 

[Scam]

Works fine for me on Outlook for Mac and I'd imagine that's the worst implementation!

 

[Mynight]

I find people sending me more than one email on the same subject before I've even had a chance to reply more annoying.

The conversation view in most clients seems to contain quotes of previous exchanges in every reply. Rather horrific to read .

Trillian FTW. Or any other desktop chat client I guess.

 

[Cosimo]

Can get messy with them all lumped together so I don't bother.

 

[Nismo]

Prefer each message to be individual, tried conversation view several times and always reverted back.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I find "Organise by Conversation" in OS X Mail to be very useful, especially as my work emails feature people in wildly different time zones.

 

[almoststew1990]

I have a brain so I am able to follow a chain of emails 'manually' on outlook. I actually find it simpler having separate emails.

 

[413x]

It's rubbish.
Even on Gmail it always seems 'broken' sometimes it feels like most recent message is in middle of the conversation.

 

[Caged]

Google Apps has an implementation that works, Outlook butchers it. And it butchers it differently to Outlook Web App for some unknown reason.

I always lose messages from threads when I'm in the Outlook conversation view, search for the subject line and it's there. Every time.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

I've lost count of the number of times I've had to explain conversation view to people giving out to me for copying people on certain types of replies.

I really do hate conversation view, I find it obscures more than it assists.

 

[arknor]

why would you use email when there is whatsapp, line, viber, google hangouts, skype etc for phones and tablets?

 

[Caged]

Yes why on earth would I email requests for quotations when I could send a Snapchat

 

[Will Gill]

Yes why on earth would I email requests for quotations when I could send a Snapchat

I prefer some of the filters provided by instagram, plus the 10 second window provided by snapchat caused some customers of mine to complain

 

[Gilly]

I never use conversation view, it hinders rather than helping. I do like the outlook prompt of not replying to the latest message though, even if it's invariably on purpose.

 

[Caged]

I prefer some of the filters provided by instagram, plus the 10 second window provided by snapchat caused some customers of mine to complain

They can always screenshot the photos you send of your peen

 

[glenimp617]

It's rubbish.
Even on Gmail it always seems 'broken' sometimes it feels like most recent message is in middle of the conversation.

Yeah, and not all of the time. It's very annoying.

 

[Stealthploit]

it is indeed very annoying but not all implementation are good

 

[Liquidfox]

I don't use it mainly because it annoys the life out of me. I keep a few non-critical credentials in my Outlook folders and having to go and delve through 5-10 emails (because I've repeatedly forwarded it onto colleagues) is just annoying. I just want that single email in my credentials folder, not everything relating to it as well.

 

[ColdAsIce]

If it actually worked how it's supposed to, I would :/