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Re: Idea for the Lugnet News/Discussion Groups website
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 27 May 1999 20:16:12 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, edboxer@aol.com (Ed Jones) writes:
> I read news/discussion via the website (because of the firewall at work).
Have you tried setting your newsreader up with one of the alternate NNTP
ports (8000 or 8080)?
> What would be extremely handy would be to have, along with the description
> of each group, the time and date of the last post.
For each group, or for each sub-hierarchy, or for both?
> I spend a lot of time
> checking groups that have nothing new since my last visit. There is
> currently no way to tell, via the website, if there are new posts.
> Anyway, just a thought/idea/suggestion.
So basically, you want to be able to find & read new messages easily &
quickly, but in the process avoid entering any groups which don't have
anything fresh, yes?
What if you could "see into" all of the groups simultaneously, and browse
backward in time through a weblog-style reverse-chronological list of
messages with snippets and links directly into the groups?
In other words, how close would something like this get to where you want to
be?...
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_cad.gif
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_ot.gif
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_us.gif
http://www.lugnet.com/temp/ss_home.gif
It's not the same as having date/time stamps listed for all the groups,
obviously, but it's where the web interface is headed in order to make the
transition to the more useful general user-group paradigms. (Those are
actual screenshots from a working version, BTW).
Alternatively, in the meantime, what if instead of listing the time/date
stamp of the most recent message in each group, what if there were a special
page you could go to which made the link color for each group change
whenever there was a new message posted to that group? That actually exists
now -- check out this URL:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi
The URLs of the groups linked to from that page include special markers at
the end (a number in parenthesis) which are conveniently ignored by the ng
overview display code...so the number at the end changes each time a new
message is posted, and thus the link color changes. It's kind of hard to
use when there are so many groups in the list, but it was easy to implement
(it's been like that since last October).
--Todd
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