This is amazing! It solved the biggest complaint a few of us have with the 
current archive!

> On Jan 26, 2017, at 1:36 PM, Tyler Stromberg via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> on Thu Jan 26 2017, Dave Abrahams <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> > on Thu Jan 26 2017, Nate Cook <swift-evolution at swift.org 
> > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>> wrote:
> >
> >> ✋
> >>
> >> I forged the mighty, turgid rivers of rubyenv, hand-tweaked gem
> >> dependencies, and sed-cleaned mbox files to try this out—you can see
> >> the results of an import (using one or two day old data) at this
> >> address:
> >>    http://discourse.natecook.com/ <http://discourse.natecook.com/>
> >>
> >> It looks like the threads were handled properly, though they bear some
> >> obvious marks of their mailing list origins. Users can actually claim
> >> their accounts if they do a password reset. However:
> >>    - it's hooked up to a trial SendGrid account, which will top out at 100 
> >> emails/day
> >>    - I should probably delete this soon so Google doesn't think it's the 
> >> real deal
> >
> >It's a shame that it has no facility for hiding long quotations.  Trying
> >to find the actual content in this thread is pretty awful:
> >http://discourse.natecook.com/t/strings-in-swift-4/2980/13 
> ><http://discourse.natecook.com/t/strings-in-swift-4/2980/13>
> 
> A few months ago I wrote a tool in Elixir to better browse the mailing list 
> archives by thread. Demo is here (forgive the frontend dev skills):
> 
> https://swift-archive-staging.herokuapp.com
> 
> As part of that, I added support for converting posts to markdown and 
> clipping long quotations (though sadly that has not yet been deployed to the 
> above link). It's quite a bit of work, but ultimately it probably makes sense 
> to clean up the data before we pull it in to Discourse (prune long 
> quotations, convert to markdown, reparent orphan replies (such as this one), 
> etc). If we do decide to move to Discourse (which I'd strongly support), I'd 
> gladly put in the effort to clean up threads before we import them.
> 
> -Tyler
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