Recent discussion about discussions

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/14/14, 2:12 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 09:03:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 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.
>
> In the horizontal-split mode, you can press the space bar to jump to the
> next unread message. Does that help? Or is it imperative that messages
> are displayed chronologically, without threading?

Nothing is really imperative; I'm not asking for features here as much 
as pointing out what my patterns are. The horizontal split view is 
pretty nice, I'll use it whenever I don't have my mail client with me. I 
could probably get used to it but I prefer a flat view.

> Unfortunately there's currently no way to mark all messages in a group
> as read (a technical restriction due to how read messages are stored).

I seldom use that feature anyway so it doesn't matter.


Andrei