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Subject: 
Wishlist/WIBNI department
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:02:28 GMT
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Certain groups get large threads...

Right now the thread display is all or nothing. When the thread gets over a
certain size (I think it is 100) you get this instead of the thread tree:

166 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)

Wouldn't it be nice if when the thread got over a certain size you got a
"relative view" instead of nothing? Not sure this is a well formed idea or
not, but what I am thinking is showing sort of a pruned tree... nodes that
are no more than 5 links away or something (both up and down the tree)

Now, computationally this may be quite expensive to compute, I am not sure.
The algorithm for doing it may also be hard, I haven't thought about tree
walkers in a long time)

So consider it a pretty low priority wishlist item, but it may be fun to
work on and a good break from more drudgery-ish sorts of things.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Wishlist/WIBNI department
 
(...) I've wished for such a thing myself. If it was well done, it might do more to wean me from NNTP. Frank (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Wishlist/WIBNI department
 
Or alternatively - give an option, stored in a cookie or membership info or some'n, to let people choose what size thread they would want to suppress. Maybe one person thinks 50 posts in a threads is way too much and takes too much time to load? And (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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