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Lugnet keeps track of what articles you've read (or at least looked at), so why not make this available to the user? Rather than relying on your browser history, this would let you more easily see which articles you've read, and which you haven't. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) Well, I dunno if there's extra code on Lugnet to store this info (it may consume a significant amount of disk space), but in general for message boards such as Lugnet, this information is *not* stored on the server, it's all handled by the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) Read the second ref and posts near it in the tree, including Todd's comments, LUGNET already knows (still does, even though the rating system was modified) who has rated posts and thus could know all history for all readers of the web (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) Agreed. My words above related to the proposal store info about who's *read* each message, not about who's *rated* them. (...) Also agreed. Is there a good reason for Lugnet to spend a (potentially) large amount of disk space to store this (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford writes: <snip> I think I've shown already where Todd said that the code change would not be "large" to do this. (but *any* code change is large, some just are larger). The data structure already exists. (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) I didn't mention code change size. (...) I *did* read the posts around both those refs, and found nothing about the data structure (for marking posts as read) already existing. Maybe you could point me to it? (...) Well another minus is that (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) In fact, it appears I've changed my mind yet again (URL) 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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(...) It's the same data structure (or could be) as the rating data structure, that's the point. (...) It's an inference from this: (...) IOW, there is a data structure of some sort (doesn't matter what, sparse array, pointers off the articles, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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