Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-23 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-23 08:54, foobar wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 20:24:08 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think?

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread foobar
On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 20:24:08 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? What phone do you use? Is a brow

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-22 23:46, David Gileadi wrote: On 12/22/11 3:16 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-22 21:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile ver

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread David Gileadi
On 12/22/11 3:16 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-22 21:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? What phone do yo

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-22 21:24, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? What phone do you use? Is a browser simulator easily availa

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Thursday, 22 December 2011 at 14:09:42 UTC, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? What phone do you use? Is a browser simulator easily available?

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-22 15:09, foobar wrote: I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? I think it would be really nice to have. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: [OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"foobar" wrote in message news:ywfemltjbzeykfzaq...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... >I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very >useful to have a mobile version. What do you think? Aren't there mobile NG clients?

[OT] dfeed for mobile

2011-12-22 Thread foobar
I was reading the NG on my phone and I just thought that it would be very useful to have a mobile version. What do you think?

Re: dfeed issue

2011-12-19 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:32:55 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The NNTP server whines it's overloaded, so I'm using dfeed. Cool! Yet another win for dfeed! webnews also hangs up when the server is complaining. -Steve

Re: dfeed issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/11 7:37 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Yes, but I need to think about the visual design. The table would need to include the subject, so it can't be a variation of the horizontal-split view... Perhaps an unthreaded variation of the "threaded" view, or a vertical-split mode that shows subj

Re: dfeed issue

2011-12-18 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Monday, 19 December 2011 at 01:32:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The NNTP server whines it's overloaded, so I'm using dfeed. DFeed is also "read-only" while NNTP is down. Cool! Yet I noticed it lacks a very simple view "show me the unthreaded messages in re

dfeed issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
The NNTP server whines it's overloaded, so I'm using dfeed. Cool! Yet I noticed it lacks a very simple view "show me the unthreaded messages in reverse chronological order". I often work in that mode in NNTP (plain, not threaded, newest first) although I understand

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/11 4:36 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 22:27:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 3:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 20:31:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunda

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 22:27:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 3:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 20:31:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 08:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alex

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/11 3:52 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 20:31:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 08:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata -> now links "Contact Andr

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 20:31:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/18/11 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 08:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata -> now links "Contact Andrei" to http://erdani.com/index.php/contact/. T

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/11 1:18 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 08:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sorry. Fixed now. http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata -> now links "Contact Andrei" to http://erdani.com/index.php/contact/. The link still doesn't work. The link "contact Andrei"

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 18 December 2011 at 08:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sorry. Fixed now. http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata -> now links "Contact Andrei" to http://erdani.com/index.php/contact/. The link still doesn't work. The link "contact Andrei" on http://erdani.com/tdpl/errata/ links to:

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/17/11 10:51 PM, Caligo wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu mailto:seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org>> wrote: I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture with dfeed. This is because I post on this newsgroup as seewebsiteforem...

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-17 Thread Caligo
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu < seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: > I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture with dfeed. > This is because I post on this newsgroup as seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org, > which is a non-existent ema

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread zhaopuming
> Wouldn't the iframe solution fix this too? Yes, iframe is OK for me.

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Thursday, 15 December 2011 at 06:39:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 9:09 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote: By the way, another problem with the twitter feed: it looks like utter crap on netbooks. http://filesmelt.com/dl/anotherproblem.png I tried it on my ipod, and it works fine. I also t

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 9:09 PM, Jakob Ovrum wrote: By the way, another problem with the twitter feed: it looks like utter crap on netbooks. http://filesmelt.com/dl/anotherproblem.png I tried it on my ipod, and it works fine. I also tried it on my kindle eink, and it works fine there, too!

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Jakob Ovrum
On Thursday, 15 December 2011 at 02:16:29 UTC, zhaopuming wrote: By no means Twitter fan here, but I disagree. For Walter and myself Twitter is an app - a convenient means to disseminate brief announcements to those interested. Something to note, twitter is blocked by the government in China

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 6:56 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:50:20 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 11:48 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need any "d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such respo

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 1:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: If D wants a twit feed and a link to it or whatever, then whatever. I just don't think prominent corporate branding is appropriate on the frontpage unless it's something directly connected (Digital Mars would be appropriate, for example). Any other co

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:50:20 -0500, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 11:48 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need any "d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such responses in under 3 hours C'mon, Steve, you set

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 11:48 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need any "d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such responses in under 3 hours C'mon, Steve, you set yourself up for that one!

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Sean Kelly
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > > Nobody is blindly embracing twitter. It's an effective tool for announcing > improvements for D -- one that many D users use (judging by the number of > followers). I'm not a huge fan of the current display format. It's too narrow t

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread zhaopuming
> By no means Twitter fan here, but I disagree. For Walter and myself > Twitter is an app - a convenient means to disseminate brief > announcements to those interested. Something to note, twitter is blocked by the government in China , and dlang.org home page can not be fully loaded now due to thi

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Brad Roberts
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message > news:jcb1r3$2gs9$2...@digitalmars.com... > > On 12/14/11 1:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message > >> news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... > >>> > It's no differen

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:00:58 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: It's not so much "everything trendy" that I have a problem with as: - Blind embracement of trends. Nobody is blindly embracing twitter. It's an effective tool for announcing improvements for D -- one that many D users use (judging

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jcb1r3$2gs9$2...@digitalmars.com... > On 12/14/11 1:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message >> news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there. >>> >>> I

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.v6hw8cs5eav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > > relax, Nick :) Read my implicitly tongue in cheek reply again. I'll > stress *Netscape Navigator*. And I think all the "upgrade your browser" > replies were TIC. > I misread the netscape reference as

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 1:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there. It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it. Yes, you're using it So th

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 12:21 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 18:20:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 9:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: and having a custom manually-updated news feed would be duplicated effort. I've tried that a few times, and inevitably I run ou

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:48:48 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.v6hu2dsheav7ka@localhost.localdomain... On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com...

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 19:50:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Also, I find it interesting that after I explicitly said I didn't need any "d00d ur browser iz teh old!" crusaders, I get three such responses in under 3 hours (although at least one of them looked like it may have been tong

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.v6hu2dsheav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message >> news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin De

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:23:17 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there. It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it. Yes, you're

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:jcan2h$1s6e$1...@digitalmars.com... > >> It's no different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there. > > It is very different. We're _using_ Twitter, not just advertising it. > Yes, you're using it, but by doing so you're also pulling in twit's

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:28:35 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/12/11 8:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:44:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_langua

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 18:20:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 9:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: and having a custom manually-updated news feed would be duplicated effort. I've tried that a few times, and inevitably I run out of steam and it gets neglected. Sort of like

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 9:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: and having a custom manually-updated news feed would be duplicated effort. I've tried that a few times, and inevitably I run out of steam and it gets neglected. Sort of like doing backups (I now use an automated backup system!).

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 9:02 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: (b/c I use FF2 with lots of crap-blocking plugins... Geez, upgrade your browser, dude!

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 11:02 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Even setting aside my own opinions of twitface (ie, that it's useless, moronic, aptly-named, and deserves to go out of business), By no means Twitter fan here, but I disagree. For Walter and myself Twitter is an app - a convenient means to disseminat

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 11:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I plan to take an attempt at a DFeed-powered news syndication widget to replace the Twitter one. Only thing is we shouldn't end up rewriting Twitter. Andrei

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
7;s *very* noticable) than *every* modern non-twitface-blocking browser I've thrown at it. I plan to take an attempt at a DFeed-powered news syndication widget to replace the Twitter one. Until then, to speed up page load it can be placed in an iframe. Anyone could put together a pull request for

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/14/11 11:02 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I do enter through the front page a lot, and while I don't usually see the twitface feed (b/c I use FF2 Upgrade your browser :o). Andrei

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/12/11 8:13 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:44:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce. Please don't involve twitter on the newsgr

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
on-twitface-blocking browser I've thrown at it. I plan to take an attempt at a DFeed-powered news syndication widget to replace the Twitter one. Until then, to speed up page load it can be placed in an iframe. Anyone could put together a pull request for that. - I think it may be crashing

Re: dfeed

2011-12-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote in message news:op.v6dq5dj9eav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:44:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu > wrote: > >> One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post >> the tweets of

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-12 Thread Peter Alexander
On 12/12/11 4:53 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 06:15:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Spam filters (much like just about anything Google is big into) are a fundamentally broken approach. From a practical perspective, the hassle of being paranoid about spam is over

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-12 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 06:15:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Spam filters (much like just about anything Google is big into) are a fundamentally broken approach. From a practical perspective, the hassle of being paranoid about spam is overweighted by the insignificant inconveniences of

Re: dfeed

2011-12-12 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:44:05 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce. Please don't involve twitter on the newsgroups. If I wanted to follow D on twitter, I

Re: dfeed

2011-12-12 Thread Regan Heath
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:43 -, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 22:44:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce. Hmm, is this the

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
erver, and redirect it after it's been > filtered. > > 3) It would be possible to add some kind of feature on DFeed which would > allow you to specify your real e-mail address, which would be sent > (obfuscated) as an extra header. DFeed would recognize this header and use > it fo

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-11 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:14:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:03:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture with dfeed. This is because I post on this newsgroup as seewebsiteforem...@erdan

Re: dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-11 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sunday, 11 December 2011 at 21:03:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture with dfeed. This is because I post on this newsgroup as seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org, which is a non-existent email address. Gravatar, however, require

dfeed/gravatar issue

2011-12-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm finding myself unable to set up my own Gravatar picture with dfeed. This is because I post on this newsgroup as seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org, which is a non-existent email address. Gravatar, however, requires the email to point to an attended mailbox because they send you the activ

Re: dfeed

2011-12-10 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 22:44:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce. Hmm, is this the best solution? It would mean either redundant posts, or posts tha

dfeed

2011-12-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
One idea for Vladimir's dfeed: it would be great to automatically post the tweets of D_language to digitalmars.D.announce. Andrei