newsgroup web viewer

[bcs]

On 11/15/2011 08:38 PM, bcs wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 06:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> I've complained about the godawful web viewers for the newsgroup
>> before, and wrote a little program to do a better job.
>>
>> But, I got distracted and didn't quite finish it. I didn't like
>> how it looked primarily.
>>
>> Today, I dropped it into the skeleton of d-programming-language.org
>> and now I pretty much like how it looks:
>>
>>
>> http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/get-thread?newsgroup=digitalmars.D&messageId=%3Cj9ps5n%2430nq%241%40digitalmars.com%3E&ordering=ByDate
>>
>>
>> My goal is to present the newsgroup in a more web forum like way, so
>> it's more comfortable to more users.
>>
>>
>> Is there a lot of interest in this kind of thing among the community?
>
> Very bluntly, the most noticeable difference (aside from pure style
> issues) is that you have included the think I **HATE** the most about
> Web Forums:
>
> You have completely obscured the structure of the news groups. News
> group (and e-mail) threads have a strong hierarchy to them that contains
> a significant about of information that I use when viewing things. As
> one example, when skimming threads, I often only look at sub trees that
> involve particular authors. With your layout, this sort of information
> is utterly lost.
>
> It would be hard to overstate the strength of my option on this subject.
> Given the option, I would use a crappy, slow, feature poor thick client
> that does a half asses job of presenting hierarchy over virtual any
> client, no matter how well done, that doesn't.

Aside from that, looks nice.