This kind of thing has started appearing in some of my gmail chains (30+ replies) when the other user is using hotmail or other mail services (not gmail) and I think it's getting worse! But I don't even know what to call it so don't know how to search for a remedy. Clicking on any (...) item opens up a full history to that point I think.

Any thoughts or suggestions on what this is called and where I might ask about how to stop it?

@uhoh WebApps?

@JourneymanGeek I don't know what those are, but it's certainly likely these replies are coming from email apps on cell phones. I wonder if there's some setting I can tell them to turn off, or something I can turn off in my gmail settings or chrome browser that at least makes them invisible to me?

@uhoh its very much a matter of how gmail handles complex email threads

If I could find the names of those little dot things, that might help me look for a gmail setting. Anyway thanks for the clue and the background!

Maybe convosation view or threads

Yeah, disabling conversation view in 'General' settings removes those elisions of previous emails @uhoh; the downside is that you lose the "one 'conversation' / thread is one mailbox entry" paradigm

so if you turn it off be prepared for that chain of 30+ replies to turn into 30 entries

the tooltip and HTML refers to those ellipses as 'Show trimmed content', which there's an old SO QA about

and a lot more people asking about how to stop it doing that if your search query is similar to 'disable show trimmed content' etc

@bertieb oh this is really helpful/informative even if it's not ultimately actionable, I'll star looking into the details now, thanks!

@uhoh Any time, good luck ^_^

@uhoh The "three dot" symbol is called an ellipsis. But yeah, what bertieb said.

Oh, that's what you said too. I need to read more.

I googled up "ellipsis", and 5 minutes later was reading about Terence, of whom I had never heard before. A brillian playwright who died age 25 in a shipwreck.

@CowperKettle As they do.

I think I read a statistic that shipwrecks are the leading cause of death in the 'playwrights named Terence aged 20-30' demographic

@forest within a house with two or three floors

@barlop I use standard USB A-B cables and VGA cables. I don't buy fancy cables for that :P

don't people use HDMI now?!?!

Isn't DisplayPort the latest and greatest display technology currently?

heh maybe . I don't stay current, but I know VGA is super old and was replaced with HDMI

do computers in the past 5 years even have VGA ports?!

(from wikipedia) "HDMI has become the de facto standard for HDTVs, and according to In-Stat, around 90% of digital televisions in 2007 included HDMI"

(current year- 2022!!!)

Even my old i5 i've had for over 5 years doesn't have VGA

Try on servers.... They still typically have VGA

Yeah, I don't think most new computers come with them anymore. Especially laptops.

HDMI is used for TVs and such, I think DisplayPort is only for PCs.

VGA is still fine to use. It supports up to 1080p at 60Hz I think.

But it can't carry audio like HDMI and DP can.