Author: Peter McKenzie
Date: 10:00:09 12/15/98
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On December 15, 1998 at 12:41:20, Peter Kappler wrote: > >There have been 175 posts to CCC in the last 24 hours! This place is getting >popular! I am happy to see the club so active. Yes, its great. > >But, I'm finding it difficult to follow threads that are more than a few hours >hold because they quickly get hidden by new discussions. Following a thread >that is more than a day old is even worse. agreed > >I posted about this yesterday, but only received one response, so I'm trying >once more: > >Most Usenet news readers (Free Agent is a good example) only show the title of a >thread on the main page. You have to click on the subject line to see all >replies. I'd suggest that CCC adopt the same convention. When a new thread is >started, the subject line of that thread would appear on the "master" page as an >HTML link. Clicking that link would take you to a separate page containing all >replies to that thread. > >The advantage of this is that you are less likely to miss an interesting thread >- something that is easy to do with almost 200 posts per day. > >This idea works well with Usenet, it seems natural that it would work here, too. > >Is there any support for this idea? Interested in feedback. I'd support this sort of interface. I suspect you may have to volunteer your services to get it implemented though, the ICD people only have limited resources to put into CCC. If we do go for the above interface, I think there needs to be a little more information on the main screen than just the name of each thread. Maybe it should show the last post as well - otherwise there would be no way of knowing if you'd read all the posts in a thread without 'drilling down' into it. This would be a little tedious if there were alot of threads you were interested in. Also, there is no reason why CCC couldn't have two interfaces - the current one and a new one. That way, people get to choose the one they like best. cheers, Peter McKenzie > >--Peter
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