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Re: Web interface
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 9 Oct 1998 07:50:00 GMT
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"Mike Stanley" <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> writes:
> So, now that it is growing and becoming better, I thought I might offer a
> suggestion. It's obvious that the cookie works, so how about making better
> use of it earlier on?
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> What I mean is, when I decide I want to read/search/post via the web, it
> would be cool to click on a link that would bring me to a list of ONLY the
> groups I have previously selected (or subscribed to).
I think that's probably more of an advanced "member" feature more than a
regular "user" feature because it involves storing config gunk on the server
for each person -- and authentication an ID and a password and all that --
and our plan in that area has always been only to store stuff on the server
if someone is a member.
For memberships, there will be simply *1* simple cookie that gets stored once
and rarely if ever modified -- it will have your ID and password, and from
that, the server can look up anything it needs to for you, to customize
stuff.
> I don't know about
> anyone else, but waiting for that huge list of loc.* groups to load, even at
> work, is a chore. God forbid I should try to do it at home.
When I access via 28.8 dialup, it loads in about 5-6 seconds. But I think
something can be done, definitely, to make it better without getting into
storing a bunch of stuff on the server -- perhaps something where you go
visit a page and it shows you a list of all the new articles on the server
since your last visit to that page (storing a timestamp in a coookie).
Or maybe you just tell it "show me everything in the past 3 hours" or in
the past 3 days, through a numerical box and a radio button for the time
frame (minutes, hours, days, weeks, etc.)
> So that's one suggestion, and hopefully a good one, not a whiny one.
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> Now for a question. I see that the cookie worked and saved my e-mail
> address and name and such. I see that the cookie box is NOW unchecked,
> which makes sense - it has my info so it doesn't need to REsave it,
> unless I want to change said info, of course. But I wonder if most
> people will get that, or if they will keep checking it, maybe even get
> mad and think, "darnit, I told this to save last time!"
I was wondering about that...shame on me for implementing it the first way.
Try again now...
> Maybe a shorter box with clearly explained option for REsaving cookie info?
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> Oh, and while it is cool that the cookie remembered I clicked the Terms of
> Use box last time, it doesn't appear to have remembered I UNchecked the e-
> mail me a copy box. I'll never want a copy e-mailed, so maybe it could
> remember that too?
Try this:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/setup/
(the Post/Reply/Compose page links there from the "From" and
"Organization" fields once you've got something stored in a cookie already.)
> All in all, WOW.
Glad it's working out!
--Todd
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| (...) `-----.-----' | BTW, that's my dry sense of humor. :) --Todd ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I think that's a good idea. It also gives people some incentive to actually become memebers. (...) I knew you had a plan. :) (...) Ok, will do. Tried stuff from home this morning, but I had just gotten out of bed, so I was a little fuzzy. (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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