“New” is ill-defined. One of the glories of trn is that each registered person has a file which keeps track of which posts and comments they’ve seen.
On usenet, this was possible because each post was shown one at a time in ascii, which was fast enough to work even over a 56K connection.
I don’t think there was any way to make such a system to work on the web without JavaScript.
A scheme like yours could work with user-specified dates for collapsing everything prior and/or with collapsing prior to when the person signed out for those who don’t just leave tabs open. It isn’t nearly as elegant as having personal accounts that track everything a person has read [1], but might be better than what we’ve got now.
Something similar to Google Reader might be nice, with the ability to ‘star’ items, and track read, and mark unread. Now that I think of it, how about letting us make an rss feed out of a custom search and just view it in your favorite feed reader? That might be fairly simple.
edit: Perhaps there is a simple or low-resource web rss feed reader that we can integrate with our message inbox? This is an example, I’m sure there are others as well.
How about a setting to auto-collapse anything not new?
Edit—please disregard this post
“New” is ill-defined. One of the glories of trn is that each registered person has a file which keeps track of which posts and comments they’ve seen.
On usenet, this was possible because each post was shown one at a time in ascii, which was fast enough to work even over a 56K connection.
I don’t think there was any way to make such a system to work on the web without JavaScript.
A scheme like yours could work with user-specified dates for collapsing everything prior and/or with collapsing prior to when the person signed out for those who don’t just leave tabs open. It isn’t nearly as elegant as having personal accounts that track everything a person has read [1], but might be better than what we’ve got now.
[1] trn included a “set unread” option.
It is ill-defined, yes. Hm...
Something similar to Google Reader might be nice, with the ability to ‘star’ items, and track read, and mark unread. Now that I think of it, how about letting us make an rss feed out of a custom search and just view it in your favorite feed reader? That might be fairly simple.
edit: Perhaps there is a simple or low-resource web rss feed reader that we can integrate with our message inbox? This is an example, I’m sure there are others as well.
Edit—please disregard this post