Dear Monks
I would like to browse the newest nodes. Now for every node I have to click and perlmonks being slow from where I access, it takes a little more time than I would desire.
If a mechanism is developed which allows to download all the newest node at once and clear the flag that would be very nice.

point of total views
of
an artist.

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Re: Browsing Newest Nodes
by talexb (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2002 at 15:12 UTC
    Here's what I do sometimes when I want to browse Newest Nodes quickly: I click through to a node that looks interesting, read all of the replies, vote, then go back two pages to the Newest Nodes page that I started from. Yes, everything on the right hand side will be out of date (Chatterbox, XP Nodelet, Other Users), but I figure that's probably way faster than asking the server to re-generate the entire Newest Nodes page.

    Under Mozilla on W98 with a DSL connection, the last fetch of Newest Nodes took 7.97 seconds -- and about 80-90% of that was waiting for a response. That's pretty good response -- and I thank pair Networks for their hosting everytime I log on to PerlMonks.

    --t. alex
    but my friends call me T.

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Re: Browsing Newest Nodes
by Helter (Chaplain) on Sep 10, 2002 at 15:23 UTC
    I'm running mozilla and it has a facility to open tabs. If I middle-click on a link it brings up a new tag and loads it in the background (in edit->prefrences->tabbed browsing)
    This allows me to click on all the links I think I want to read, and I only have to wait for 1 to finish loading. By the time I read the first post all the rest have loaded in the background.
    Works for me :)
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Re: Browsing Newest Nodes
by Solo (Deacon) on Sep 10, 2002 at 15:42 UTC
    It would be nice to have a '->Goto Full Thread' option under New Notes.
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Re: Browsing Newest Nodes
by Django (Pilgrim) on Sep 10, 2002 at 17:06 UTC

    I always keep the newest nodes open in a seperate window, while reading the posts. Then I check and reload, getting the nodes since my last reload.

    ++ for Solos proposition, that would really save lots of unnecessary clicks.

    ~Django
    "Why don't we ever challenge the spherical earth theory?"

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Re: Browsing Newest Nodes
by grinder (Bishop) on Sep 11, 2002 at 07:55 UTC

    The responses seen so far are useful if you have a fast connection, but for artist this is apparently not the case.

    In this case, what is needed is an off-site newest nodes reader. Such a beast downloads the newest nodes ticker and arranges it in a way that makes it easy for you to decide which threads to visit, and which ones to ignore. This does require web space with CGI availability, but these days that's not so hard to arrange. The server in question can quite happily live behind a firewall.

    The two off-site readers with which I am most familiar are:

    The former is more full-featured, but hard to hack on, and the latter is quite spartan, but very easy to understand and extend. With these two tools, I haven't visited the Newest Nodes pages in months. The other thing you can do on a slow link is to go to your user settings and strip out the nodelets that appear on each pageview. You can leave them all on the front page, but turn them off for all the other pages. This can reduce download times dramatically on slow links.

    node tyop spotted by Aristotle, thanks.


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