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Re: Suggestion for new feature
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:25:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Ben Roller writes:
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> Somewhere in there I'd like to see a link (an icon?) that would take you to
> the original message in the thread, [...]
The original prototype for the new (May, 1999) interface did have a similar
sort of feature via another symbol... Whereas the regular article is clicked
up using a white and blue dot, this was a white and blue series of parallel
lines...
______ ______
| __ | | ____ |
| | | | | ____ |
| |__| | | ____ |
|______| |______|
What it did was pulled up the thread view for a message -- showing a whole
bunch at once -- but that was before the intended thread view, when there was
only a linear view.
I don't recall (other than that it was a tiny bit conusing) why it was taken
out -- but it didn't make the final cut for some reason.
What you're talking about is something different, right? -- you're looking
for something that pops up a single article? -- the root node article of a
thread? A one-step clickie path instead of a two-step clickie path?
--Todd
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| (...) Exactly, a one-step clickie path. I couldn't have said it better. :) It's not much of a time savings, but it seems a waste to load up the entire article just to click back to the root node articlet. I know that I do it several times per day, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Suggestion for new feature
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| This is intended for you Todd, but I'm posting to see if other feel the same. Don't you hate it when you come to Lugnet and see a summary like "Re: This is the greatest day ever! (was: Free bricks for everyone!)" but you have no idea what the thread (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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