New web newsreader - requesting participation

Lars T. Kyllingstad public at kyllingen.NOSPAMnet
Thu Feb 3 13:00:41 PST 2011


On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:16:58 +0000, Adam Ruppe wrote:

> Eric Poggel wrote:
>> I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open
>> source--why not run our own deployment of it for D?
> 
> I *really* dislike tree style interfaces. I find them incredibly hard to
> navigate.
> 
> Of course, I'm fairly unlikely to use the web interface much anyway
> (whether mine or someone else - I prefer my mail client most the time),
> but still, it would be nice if it didn't suck.
> 
> Anyway, I did a little more work on my thing this morning:
> 
> http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/thread-index?newsgroup=digitalmars.D
> 
> There's now [Tree] and [Linear] links on the right to view the whole
> thread at once.
> 
> 
> Any ideas on how to improve that? I copied a few basic elements of
> reddit style sites, but I'm thinking that view works best for very short
> messages.

I agree.  Subject, author and date should be shown in a tree view, but 
you should never display more than one message body at a time.  The 
average message on this forum is far too long for that.

-Lars


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