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Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 12:49:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Ross Crawford writes:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, David Schilling writes:
> > 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.
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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 client, whether that be a browser, email client or a
> newsreader.
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 interface with some code changes but theoretically no new
data structures (although volume would go way up, many more people read than
rate)
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Message has 1 Reply:
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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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| (...) 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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