On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:16:58 +0000, Adam Ruppe wrote: > Eric Poggel wrote: >> I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open >> source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? > > I *really* dislike tree style interfaces. I find them incredibly hard to > navigate. > > Of course, I'm fairly unlikely to use the web interface much anyway > (whether mine or someone else - I prefer my mail client most the time), > but still, it would be nice if it didn't suck. > > Anyway, I did a little more work on my thing this morning: > > http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/thread-index?newsgroup=digitalmars.D > > There's now [Tree] and [Linear] links on the right to view the whole > thread at once. > > > Any ideas on how to improve that? I copied a few basic elements of > reddit style sites, but I'm thinking that view works best for very short > messages.
I agree. Subject, author and date should be shown in a tree view, but you should never display more than one message body at a time. The average message on this forum is far too long for that. -Lars