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Re^5: A Proposal for Additional Levels

by belg4mit (Prior)
on Oct 26, 2004 at 17:33 UTC ( [id://402717]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: A Proposal for Additional Levels
in thread A Proposal for Additional Levels

Not really, if you can t remember the notes you've read you can check their dates against the last visit date for the top level node in your history (which you obviously cache before revisiting the page). Or you could use newest nodes. :-P

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Re^6: A Proposal for Additional Levels
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 27, 2004 at 13:13 UTC
    Newest nodes doesn't keep track which nodes you have read in any way. Suppose the list of new nodes (new since one last hit the button "I've seen them all") contains nodes A, B, C, all decendents from the same root node. Node B is child of node A, but node A is not a predecessor of node C, but nodes B and C have the same "depth" (that means, they both have exactly the same title if noone changed the titles). Now one visits node A, and node B shows up on the same page as well. So you have read nodes A and B. Now you return to the newest nodes page. Since the links to nodes B and C are different than the link to node A, according to your browser history, you have visited neither B or C. You also remember the date of nodes A and B, and even of the top level node in the thread. Still back on the newest node page, which unvisited link brings you to the unread node, the top or the bottom one?

      Use Recently Active Threads then with a threaded view. IMO its pretty obvious what you have read and not because you can see the authors of the parents and also because newer nodes will be lower down on the page. Thus you usually will quickly realize if you have already seen the thread. At least I do.


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