I suspect that like many others here, I often stumble unexpectedly onto new ways to use Perl through Newest Nodes, etc. Despite the inherent contradiction in seeking out serendipity, being able to browse historical discussions would be a great feature IMHO.

My fantasy would be a simple, downloadable HTML list with entries like:
<a HREF="URL of parent node">Subject of parent node</a>
for every thread on the site (or at least SoPW). I'm frequently on the road with no network connectivity and it would be great to be able to browse threads and flag them for later retrieval.

Also the list could be statically generated, perhaps once a day, to minimize DB hits.

Josh

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Re: Super Browse
by Kanji (Parson) on Apr 30, 2002 at 00:45 UTC
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      Except that with jcwren's browser you have to attack the search via dates or username/node_id -- as far as I can tell there's no browsing via root node subject. Also jlf was interested in flagging articles for later reading (something more sophisticated than standard bookmarking in a browser).

      Matt

      (I'm not knocking jcwren's browser -- it's nifty, just not exactly the droid jlf was looking for)

      Update: Fixed refs to jlf rather than Kanji...oops.

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