On 11/27/2011 11:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2011-11-27 23:30, Walter Bright wrote:
Those are all desirable properties. But the forum software I've seen
throws out what's good about NNTP news forums:
1. Threaded view
2. Being able to mark messages as "read"
3. Being able to quickly scan read vs unread
Just because this may be true for most of the forums doesn't mean it needs to be
true if d-p-l.org gets a new forum.
BTW, most forum software is pretty much unreadable on small, mobile
screens because all the real estate is consumed by the borders, avatars,
decorations, gee-gaws, etc. Even text-only reddit blows on the small
screen because the text refuses to reflow.
Then that's just bad design. If the forum is designed correctly there won't be
any problem.
Here's a typical example:
http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=72850.0
Check out all of the vertical space consumed by a 2 word message. No threading
view that I can find. There's a "Mark Unread" button, but that applies to the
entire thread, not individual messages.
Here's another:
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/615737-concave-polygon-to-convex-polygons/page__pid__4887554#entry4887554
Same problems.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_id=2016875109&source_name=mbase
Note the teeny tiny amount of the screen that is for message text.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/0050228/muslim-medical-students-boycott-darwin-lectures
At least it's got a real threaded view. But no way to tell what you've read, so
if you come back to an active topic after an hour or two, it's a real pain
trying to figure out what you've read and what you haven't. I rarely bother to
load a topic more than once because of this. Same goes for reddit.
