The idea is that the display on the opening page is from the public timeline and is read-only. It is only used for users to see that there is activity on the platform.
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: >> My new changes are in the branch. The first challenge is to get the >> first page working with the public timeline. We have to add a comet >> back-end that feeds just one message instead of 40 (which is the >> existing implementation) and then map the existing javascript >> (display_messages.js) to the new ids or change the new ui to match the >> ids in the existing javascript. > > Wait, I thought we decided against sending just one message for now, > because of many limitations of this approach. For instance, if you > reply to a message, the old message will become a part of a > conversation, but will not have an updated conversation link. >
