tagore writes:
>Oh, and just one more thing: I'd also give my right arm for a little bookmark
>feature to mark the place where I left off reading my flist so I can go
>straight back to that particular post when I open my flist the next time I'm
>online, instead of having to skim through tons of posts until I hit an entry
>that looks familiar and start over again from there.
I think this is actually the key feature here -- along with the
ability to go thorugh posts forward, rather than backward.
But yeah -- the "new stuff at the top" is great for two situations
that I can think of:
1. When scanning a new contact's journal, looking to see whether they
post anything you're interested in reading, starting with the most
relevant -- ie, new, posts.
2. Skimming a friends list or journal to see if there are any new
posts (or just looking at the new ones and not worrying about continuity).
I'd guess that it's also best for:
3. Being easy to code.
But that's just a guess.
Similarly, what its horrible for are the two things I most frequently
do with my lists/journal:
1. When reading a new fiction journal, start at the beginning, work my
way to the end.
2. Playing catchup on a friends list, start at the last post I read,
then go continuously to the end, possibly giving up and saving my last
location so I can keep trying to catch up from the same point
later.
The best approaches for these two is either a Usenet approach where
the system records what you've read (probably unfeasable), or as
mentioned above, a post-anchored, rather than "now"-anchored reading
style, and one that goes forward, not backward. Click on the right
link near a post (or enter its id as a a parameter; whatever, and you
get a page of posts starting with that one and going forward, which is
stable, and where the next and previous links are also "post forward"
style URLs.
How feasable is this?
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