That doesn't do it. For several reasons. First, newest nodes
doesn't keep track of what you have visited. All it does is
keeping track of when you last hit "I've checked all of these".
If you've read some, but not others, newest nodes isn't keeping
track.
Second, even if it would do that it still doesn't keep into
account that if you visit a node, you also see all the replies
(up to 4 or 5 levels). Not even in combination of your browser
is that kept track off.
I've said it before, but Perlmonks (not just Perlmonks, but
most "webboards") is a reinvention of Usenet, but with a far
worse interface.
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I think you misunderstood the meaning of the word interface.
I wasn't talking about content, I was talking about how to
get and add to the content. Even the most primitive of the newsreaders
I've used in the 15 years I've been doing Usenet
(well, perhaps except for cat), offers a better interface
than a webbrowser. At least they allow you to use your editor
of a choice, instead of a tiny <textarea> field, where you
can use plain text instead of a badly defined HTML derivate.
(Oh, only if we had the option of using plain text, or POD (this *is*
a Perl site after all.... ;-))
Usenet allows you to do (that is 'read' and 'write') more in
the same time span than a website.
no spam
Funny you say that. Most usenet postings in comp.lang.perl.misc
do not contain any commercial message. At perlmonks, every single
page contains commercials. To reply to something, I will see
at least four pages (the original post, the reply page, the
preview page, and the submitted page). That's 4 times commercials.
Much more than you see on Usenet, as long as you stay away from
the sex groups.
no PurlGurl/Godzilla
It takes one line in a newsreaders configuration file to permanently
ignore someone. You will no longer see any postings of said person.
You don't even have that option at perlmonks.
I agree the signal-to-noise ratio appears to be better here than
on comp.lang.perl.misc, although the tolerance on bad or incorrect
answers is lower on clpm than here (perhaps you see that as an
advantage of perlmonks - I don't). There are more bad postings
on clpm than here, I agree. But I've also seen more gems on clpm
than here. Perlmonks does have its advantages, but certainly
not when it comes to the interface.
Abigail
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Ah, you don't. Well, I just went to newest nodes. I pressed "show only nodes less than 1 day old". I counted them: 173 new messages. Can't be a problem.
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Don't forget that by hitting I've checked all of these you can gain a more finegrained list. At least if you visit frequently, the list rarely gets unmanageably large.
Maybe you're interested in blakem's bivnn.cgi -- an alternate interface to newest nodes?
I'm also currently working on a similar script myself with a few extra convenience features. (A useful prototype that does about as much as blakem's published version is already functional, but my own ideas that go beyond it aren't in yet.)
Makeshifts last the longest.
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