On Friday, 14 March 2014 at 09:03:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
As of this very moment, my NNTP client (Thunderbird) shows
there are 5 messages unread in the left treeview
(http://imgur.com/KHnjcnU), and displays in a simple list all
223871 messages ever posted in digitalmars.D with the most
recent 5 messages at the top and in bold text
(http://imgur.com/uJ2UdzA). As I select each of those unread
messages, their bold disappears (they become read). If I get
bored and want to mark all news as read, there's a button that
does that (or I could select some and mark as read etc).
I use threaded views for e.g. github discussions because once a
pull is merged, I archive them all in one shot. But a flat view
is a very simple and effective way of staying abreast of what's
going on in the forum. Again, I feel I'm missing something
given that I'm the only one asking for such.
In the horizontal-split mode, you can press the space bar to jump
to the next unread message. Does that help? Or is it imperative
that messages are displayed chronologically, without threading?
Unfortunately there's currently no way to mark all messages in a
group as read (a technical restriction due to how read messages
are stored).
