On 02/03/2010 02:42 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Yigal Chripun wrote:
I've thought about building such a system for these forums many times.
Registration would not be required to post, but registering would enable
features like voting on posts, establishing a profile, preferences, etc.
That sounds awesome. Another useful feature would be storing session
info in the profile such that if I read a post at work the post will
be marked as such when I use a different computer/news-reader like my
home PC.
Yup. What I hate about reddit/slashdot/ycombinator is there's no way to
mark ones I've read as read. On a long thread, it's really hard to see
if there's anything new.
wouldn't it be easier to just use web forums (there are many existing
system with all the bells and whistles) and write a news-gateway for
it than to implement all the features for the current news-server?
it'll also fix the currently broken web interface for the NG.
They all suck. Sorry.
Most use far too much vertical space, spreading the thread out over
multiple pages, or don't indent a threaded view. And *none* of them have
the ability to mark what you've read.
I know that at least vBulletin and phpBB can do mark-as-read, it's just
that not everybody uses it. Most of the more 'advanced' forum software
like this however, is stacked with community features and geared towards
markup heavy posting. They would require extensive hacking to adapt to a
more efficient system.
vBulletin also has a (sucky) threaded view btw.
