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Re: Marking articles as 'read'
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:56:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
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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
Agreed. My words above related to the proposal store info about who's *read*
each message, not about who's *rated* them.
> 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)
Also agreed. Is there a good reason for Lugnet to spend a (potentially)
large amount of disk space to store this info? I think not, but obviously
others disagree. (Note that I regularly use the web interface on 3 different
machines, and occasionally NNTP, and have no problem remembering which
messages I've already read.)
ROSCO
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Message has 1 Reply:
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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. (...) (22 years ago, 7-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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