newsgroup web viewer

Somedude lovelydear at mailmetrash.com
Wed Nov 16 14:12:26 PST 2011


Le 16/11/2011 05:47, bcs a écrit :
> On 11/15/2011 07:18 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Trass3r Wrote:
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php is nicer and works
>>> fine
>>> for me the few times I need a web viewer.
>>
>> Oh, I keep forgetting this one exists!
>>
>> Can we get this linked from the main newsgroups page at least?
>>
>>> A threaded view is a must have :)
>>
>> Change the ordering to ByParent in the url, though I haven't adjusted
>> the stylesheet
>> to include proper spacing for that.
> 
> Either that's not working, it's not what I want or the stylesheet thing
> is getting in the way.
> 
>>
>> It puzzles me how people actually like that view though! I hate threaded
>> views with a passion.
> 
> Do you actually enjoy having to guess what something is in reply to? Or
> how about the fun you can have trying to locate replies to a given post?
> Or what about when one branch of a thread goes off on a interesting
> tangent and another dives down a rabbit hole you couldn't care less about?
> 
> Unless you plan on reading *everything* (and when things get
> interesting, that is just flat impossible, even if you don't have a
> job), the most important information is virtually invisible in anything
> but a threaded view.

Some forums, like http://forum.hardware.fr, allow you to go back to the
post you are responding to by clicking on the poster's name, and it also
displays the number of responses to your own post. And you get all the
responses in a new tab if you click on that number. Very practical.


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