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Re: Longest thread candidate? (Was: What happened?)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:06:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> Hey, Todd, view this message in the Web interface and check out those
> little blue squares at the bottom. I'm assuming that one could count
> those blue squares and come up with the number of unique messages in
> this thread, regardless of ng, right?
Well, you don't actually have to count them; it says how many there are
right above them. :-)
> My question is: Are the number and position of those squared figured out
> every time someone loads the page, or is it done when someone posts a new
> message to the thread?
The graph is displayed on-the-fly from parent/child node data. This way,
the full thread is always correctly shown for older messages up the tree
and not just for newer messages.
> If it's the former and the state of the thread is unknown until viewing,
> is there any way to keep a running total on thread size (based upon message
> count)?
>
> If it's the latter and the state is kept in a semi-persistent state file,
> how easy would it be to enumerate those files and get a message count for
> the longest thread on LUGNET?
It wouldn't be too difficult, but it would only encourage posting to the
longest thread just for the sake of making it even longer. And the longer
a thread gets, the more wasteful it becomes of resources when a message in
it is displayed. (I should probably be chopping automatic thread display
and putting it on a separate page once the thread grows above a certain
size. Really large threads, even with the HTML whitespace compactification
tricks being used, are rat's-nests for older browsers or browsers running on
low memory.)
--Todd
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| (...) 'Scuse me while I bang my head against my monitor... (...) That sounds good. Sometimes that tree display can take a while to load (sometimes). BTW, I just noticed that LUGNET messages aren't very pretty then viewed with Lynx in an 80-column (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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