newsgroup web viewer

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/15/11 10:19 PM, bcs wrote:
> On 11/15/2011 09:54 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 11/15/11 8:38 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.
>>
>> No need to worry about that. Only digitalmars.D.announce posts will be
>> there, and there's little structure to them. Essentially we want to
>> publish just announcements.
>>
>
> I don't need to worry about it until NNTP access is shut off. The only
> time I use a web interface is when I don't have access to my own system.

To clarify - all we need on the homepage is a read-only rendering of the 
most recent posts on digitalmars.D.announce. In fact perhaps we should 
only render the latest top-level messages, not the answers.


Andrei