Am 03.02.2011 22:00, schrieb Lars T. Kyllingstad: > 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
I find it annoying to open each message in a thread manually. I prefer a fully expanded thread with all bodies (or maybe partially expended by subthreads or something when it's too big). This makes reading longer threads much easier. I haven't found a non-web-based news/mail client that does this yet, but going to the next message with 'n' in Thunderbird certainly is less painful than clicking the next message I want to read on a website. Cheers, - Daniel