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
