New web interface to forums

[Stewart Gordon]

Walter Bright wrote:
> bobef suggested a different web interface. Jan Knepper has installed it, 
> and here it is for everyone to try out. What do y'all think?
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php

My first impressions....

It's much nicer to have one that actually shows threads!  But the 
threading interface has a few caveats:

(a) The message list interface seems to just count off 25 (or however 
many) messages and then thread them together.  While this can be useful 
in that it helps to avoid excessive indentation in very busy threads, it 
can also be confusing.

(b) The expanding/collapsing is done on the server side.  While the 
advantage is that it still works for users who have JS/CSS disabled, it 
would be nice to have a user pref to do it on the client side, thereby 
saving both the user's time and the server's bandwidth.

(c) Collapsing doesn't make any more threads visible as some may expect 
it to.  I don't know of a good way of dealing with this together with 
points (a) and (b), but maybe somebody has an idea.


It seems to be hard-coded to one timezone.  And it fails to indicate 
which timezone that is.

But it's good to see that it displays dates in an unambiguous format.

Stewart.