I noticed that "New Code" does not stay in the Newest Nodes section for more than about a day, nor do the "New Snippets." However, Discussion nodes stay up for what seems like a week!

Can we extend the "New Code" and "New Snippets" to get the same exposure time as the Discussions in the "Newest Nodes" section? After all this *is* a Perl site. And, Perl is the programming language that we come to this site to learn, share and enjoy.

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(tye)Re: New Code and New Snippets not exposed long enough
by tye (Sage) on Sep 23, 2002 at 18:59 UTC

    The exact same code is used for all sections of Newest Nodes; the node type is simply passed in as a parameter. I believe you are simply imagining this behavior.

            - tye (Next you'll be imagining that link generation is broken)
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        (Next you'll be imagining that link generation is broken)

      :D

      tye, your links are messed up! :P

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Re: New Code and New Snippets not exposed long enough
by ignatz (Vicar) on Sep 23, 2002 at 20:48 UTC
    While I do believe that submitted code does not get enough emphasis here, the problem is not with the display of Newest Nodes. It is perfectly simple to click on the Code link and see what code has been published going back much longer then that day.

    The best way to get more discussion of code is to discuss code. I'm sure that posters would welcome more input concerning their posts. Have at it. 

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      I agree wholeheartedly!

        I'm sure that posters would welcome more input concerning their posts. Have at it.

      Excellent suggestion. Sometimes I get so tied up in writing code that I forget to read others' code and comment on it. Thank you brother ignatz for pointing me in the right direction.

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Re: New Code and New Snippets not exposed long enough
by vladb (Vicar) on Sep 23, 2002 at 17:16 UTC
    I haven't observed this issue closely, but couldn't it be attributed to the fact that there's a substantially greater amount of post being made to the New Code and New Snippets sections that it is to the Discussion which causes these posts to 'disappear' much sooner? Therefore, there's little one could do other than alter the behaviour of the entire site as the back-end code that takes care of your posts is pretty much the same for every section.

    Unfortunately, my knowledge of this is limited from the point of being a mere user/observer. I haven't yet looked at the underlying Everything code to be able to render a more conclusive and precise answer :)

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        ...couldn't it be attributed to the fact that there's a substantially greater amount of post being made to the New Code and New Snippets sections that it is to the Discussion which causes these posts to 'disappear' much sooner?

      That's a good point. This could be addressed, though, by adding a rule that limits the number of posts to show to something like 10. I have rarely, if ever, seen more than 10 new code entries in a week; the same for new snippets.

      Everything should be flexible enough to handle something like this, right vroom (or tye)? ;)

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Re: New Code and New Snippets not exposed long enough (PMSI anyone?)
by grinder (Bishop) on Sep 24, 2002 at 08:00 UTC
    If you look closely at the top of the snippets page there is a link to the PMSI - Perl Monks Snippets Index which lets you see the entire snippet list sorted by reverse chronological order. If you would like to see snippet information viewed in a different order, let me know.

    Actually ar0n built a ticker that will let me get at the information much more easily, so I'll be doing a rewrite one of these days, to include Code, CUFP and Craft as well.


    print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'
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Re: New Code and New Snippets not exposed long enough
by zentara (Cardinal) on Sep 24, 2002 at 15:27 UTC
    At the very top of my "newest nodes" page, is a selection box for how many days back you want, it defaults to 1. If you select 14, it will send you 2 weeks worth. Wouldn't it be nice to have this number selected in "user settings"? For people who only check in on weekends, etc?
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