Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation
Trass3r Wrote: That one has horrible bugs. You'll click on a topic, then try to read a reply, and it shoots you to some random topic 4+ years ago. Happens all the time. I only use it to post to NG since using Gmail directly doesn't show up my own posts (this is a known gmail bug). Didn't occur to me so far. After the cookie timeout it resets newsgroup to digitalmars.D keeping post ids which are group-specific. As .D has much more posts than other groups, getting a post with small id from it results in a very old post.
Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation
On 1/31/2011 5:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Adam Ruppe wrote: In the other newsgroup, I've been talking about a little web news program I've been writing as a spinoff of the potential new homepage idea. That is great news. I've been wanting to do one for years! I haven't looked much at yours yet, but here's my ideas anyway :-) 1. Can use web interface or nntp interface 2. web interface looks sort of like reddit, i.e. all posts on a thread 3. users can post anonymously 4. web interfaces supports logins - logged in users can vote up or down on posts 5. web interface can mark posts as read or unread - fixing my beef with reddit that there's no reasonable way to scan a thread for new posts 6. an easy way for moderators to delete spam 7. runs on 64 bit FreeBSD (what the Digital Mars server runs on), yes, I know that means I have to get 64 bit dmd on FreeBSD working! I can contribute the code that generates the D archive pages from the news postings. I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? It seems that these changes would require minimal changes to the code base, except for nntp access. But I guess I don't understand the benefits of it over a web-based solution.
Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation
Eric Poggel wrote: I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? I *really* dislike tree style interfaces. I find them incredibly hard to navigate. Of course, I'm fairly unlikely to use the web interface much anyway (whether mine or someone else - I prefer my mail client most the time), but still, it would be nice if it didn't suck. Anyway, I did a little more work on my thing this morning: http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/thread-index?newsgroup=digitalmars.D There's now [Tree] and [Linear] links on the right to view the whole thread at once. Any ideas on how to improve that? I copied a few basic elements of reddit style sites, but I'm thinking that view works best for very short messages.
Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:16:58 +, Adam Ruppe wrote: Eric Poggel wrote: I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? I *really* dislike tree style interfaces. I find them incredibly hard to navigate. Of course, I'm fairly unlikely to use the web interface much anyway (whether mine or someone else - I prefer my mail client most the time), but still, it would be nice if it didn't suck. Anyway, I did a little more work on my thing this morning: http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/thread-index?newsgroup=digitalmars.D There's now [Tree] and [Linear] links on the right to view the whole thread at once. Any ideas on how to improve that? I copied a few basic elements of reddit style sites, but I'm thinking that view works best for very short messages. I agree. Subject, author and date should be shown in a tree view, but you should never display more than one message body at a time. The average message on this forum is far too long for that. -Lars
Re: New web newsreader - requesting participation
Am 03.02.2011 22:00, schrieb Lars T. Kyllingstad: On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:16:58 +, Adam Ruppe wrote: Eric Poggel wrote: I hate to mention this in light of Adam's work, but Reddit is open source--why not run our own deployment of it for D? I *really* dislike tree style interfaces. I find them incredibly hard to navigate. Of course, I'm fairly unlikely to use the web interface much anyway (whether mine or someone else - I prefer my mail client most the time), but still, it would be nice if it didn't suck. Anyway, I did a little more work on my thing this morning: http://arsdnet.net/d-web-site/nntp/thread-index?newsgroup=digitalmars.D There's now [Tree] and [Linear] links on the right to view the whole thread at once. Any ideas on how to improve that? I copied a few basic elements of reddit style sites, but I'm thinking that view works best for very short messages. I agree. Subject, author and date should be shown in a tree view, but you should never display more than one message body at a time. The average message on this forum is far too long for that. -Lars I find it annoying to open each message in a thread manually. I prefer a fully expanded thread with all bodies (or maybe partially expended by subthreads or something when it's too big). This makes reading longer threads much easier. I haven't found a non-web-based news/mail client that does this yet, but going to the next message with 'n' in Thunderbird certainly is less painful than clicking the next message I want to read on a website. Cheers, - Daniel
Re: Phobos 2.051 CHM Help File
On 03-Feb-11 5:00 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:48:07 +0200, Joel Christensen joel...@gmail.com wrote: I just get Navigation to the webpage was canceled what ever I've click on in the left window. http://thecybershadow.net/d/docs/#troubleshooting Thanks Vladimir, got it working. The first thing I tried didn't work, but your links instructions did. :-)
