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Re: I resign from the LPRV committee
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:33:00 GMT
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:29:55PM +0000, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> > I think it shouldn't be very hard to implement. Have to add a
> > chaching mechanism so that each member's version would be updated no
> > more than once an hour, and not at all if they're not currently
> > browsing. It would also work as a better gauge of what the community
> > is really looking for in the spotlight - could even have the default
> > weights be calculated off the average weighing of all the users.
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> Huh. So, rather than keep an individual's ranked posts, you'd just
> keep an "everyone with settings in configuration X" sort of thing.
> Makes sense. I wonder if there could be a limited number of
> configurations to start with, in case it *is* a big performance hit.
> Like, only allow settings for a few groups rather than *ALL* groups to
> increase the odds of people having matching settings.
I wasn't thinking of that, actually, but it could be done. Basically
generate a signature of the user's settings, and cache the spotlight for
that signature. That would mean that multiple people sharing the same
config (skip filter + spotlight weights) will only cause the server to
generate one spotlight list.
Good thinking!
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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