# Migrating from Google Groups

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695>\
**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [February 2, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695 "2015-02-02T00:32:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 15, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-from-google-groups/24695/16 "2015-02-15T23:32:14Z")

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> [@downey](#):
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> I agree … The “Previous Replies” section of notifications seems to confuse our users (specifically devs) for some reason.

The **Previous Replies** feature only appears the first time you receive a message from a topic. Subsequent messages do not show **Previous Replies**. This is not immediately apparent, but completely the right approach.

I had two types of complaint/misunderstanding:

- **“previous replies is superfluous”** from people assuming that this was something they would see every email response from a thread. At first it seems like this as you get the previous replies section once for every topic, so when you sign up you may see a fair few. But its **not an issue** once they realise its only providing the context the once per topic.
- **“replies have no context”** in that subsequent replies via the web only give you the specific response and you don’t have all the quoted guff at the bottom of a standard mailing list email to give you better context. This is not relevant for many list users as its common practice to just keep all emails from the list in their own thread, in your own email client.

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