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(...) <click> me too! :-) Excluding those groups from the front page (I mean first page of www.lugnet.com) would be a nice thing (providing that they would still be accessible from the links at the light blue field, as it is now) and I can't (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) :-) (...) Yup, they'll still be available by direct down-clicking into the groups from the light blue band at the top. And they'll still be accessible from the "traffic report" page. (...) OK, thanks for the input. Definitely leaning toward (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Todd Lehman (<Fr5AEn.MyF@lugnet.com>) wrote at 08:03:59 (...) This requires a slight change in viewpoint, but: If you think of the home page as a shop window, you want the good stuff there to encourage people to come in. With (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) hmmm... but then, it'll be harder for the theoretical user who wants to track these groups from the web interface to know if there's something new/recent in them. Perhaps (until a fully customizable front page is designed) _all_ the groups (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) How close does this get to what you mean?-- (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yes, definitely! That's one of the later goals of scoring, for the 'lite' homepage which will better serve casual and new users... --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) automatically fill this in with the hours since last view or somesuch? Is there an easy way to get a summary page with all the groups once they go away from the home page? That might be useful to some. (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) in the long term, I guess I was thinking more of making the web interface more like a platform-free newsreader. It would remember what that user read, and would mark groups where he has unread messages... Very similar to the news reader, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:58:00 GMT Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics)': (...) wow! that's an absolutly brilliant (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmm, that could be neat. Alternatively, something that exists now -- and I used this method for many many months -- is to view articles in "Brief" form counting upwards rather than downwards. For example, load this up: (URL) then hit reload (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:04:38 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote concerning 'Re: Hide .off-topic & .admin posts from top page? (was: Re: Reminder: the .off-topic.* groups ARE for off-topic topics)': (...) filtering... :/ btw, there seems to be (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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