Walter Bright Wrote: > On 11/27/2011 11:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > > On 2011-11-27 23:30, Walter Bright wrote: > >> Those are all desirable properties. But the forum software I've seen > >> throws out what's good about NNTP news forums: > >> > >> 1. Threaded view > >> 2. Being able to mark messages as "read" > >> 3. Being able to quickly scan read vs unread > > > > Just because this may be true for most of the forums doesn't mean it needs > > to be > > true if d-p-l.org gets a new forum. > > > >> BTW, most forum software is pretty much unreadable on small, mobile > >> screens because all the real estate is consumed by the borders, avatars, > >> decorations, gee-gaws, etc. Even text-only reddit blows on the small > >> screen because the text refuses to reflow. > > > > Then that's just bad design. If the forum is designed correctly there won't > > be > > any problem. > > > Here's a typical example: > > http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=72850.0 > > Check out all of the vertical space consumed by a 2 word message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.d.general/70244 - and this is not a limit, I've seen a 2 word message three times as bigger. > No threading > view that I can find. There's a "Mark Unread" button, but that applies to the > entire thread, not individual messages. > > Here's another: > > http://www.gamedev.net/topic/615737-concave-polygon-to-convex-polygons/page__pid__4887554#entry4887554 > > Same problems. > > http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_id=2016875109&source_name=mbase > > Note the teeny tiny amount of the screen that is for message text. > > http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/0050228/muslim-medical-students-boycott-darwin-lectures > > At least it's got a real threaded view. But no way to tell what you've read, > so > if you come back to an active topic after an hour or two, it's a real pain > trying to figure out what you've read and what you haven't. I rarely bother > to > load a topic more than once because of this. Same goes for reddit.
