Recent discussion about discussions

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/14/14, 1:19 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 08:13:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/14/14, 1:09 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>> I actually use the D forums for all of my posting these days. I find it
>>> easier to comprehend the order of threads. I think we all have our own
>>> ways of getting at the threads.
>>
>> I don't. There's no way on the http forum of seeing new posts since
>> last time I've read them all (something trivial with NNTP).
>
> You read all the posts posted here?

Yes.

> Can you elaborate on the problem? My current understanding of your
> request was that it was just a layout preference, as opposed to
> something enabling a specific workflow.

As of this very moment, my NNTP client (Thunderbird) shows there are 5 
messages unread in the left treeview (http://imgur.com/KHnjcnU), and 
displays in a simple list all 223871 messages ever posted in 
digitalmars.D with the most recent 5 messages at the top and in bold 
text (http://imgur.com/uJ2UdzA). As I select each of those unread 
messages, their bold disappears (they become read). If I get bored and 
want to mark all news as read, there's a button that does that (or I 
could select some and mark as read etc).

I use threaded views for e.g. github discussions because once a pull is 
merged, I archive them all in one shot. But a flat view is a very simple 
and effective way of staying abreast of what's going on in the forum. 
Again, I feel I'm missing something given that I'm the only one asking 
for such.


Andrei