How hard would it be to add a column in the Newest Nodes that said how long ago the node was created/modified? Something like:

Node Name by foo (13 min ago)
Other Node by bar (1hr 27 min ago)

And does anyone else think this a desirable feature?

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Re: Newest Nodes feature suggestion
by eric256 (Parson) on Nov 11, 2003 at 23:55 UTC

    I'd rather see a feature that lists all nodes with recent activity. I know just look at new notes, but that doesn't always work because sometimes the title of the note has nothing to do with the node it is refering to. Plus sometimes a bunch of replies all come for one node, creating a longer list. A recently modified (possibly with a "5 recent notes") would be very cool.


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    Eric Hodges

      You might be interested in my Mozilla sidebar (which also works with IE, I am told). Progress is stalled at the moment because it turns out that it's "good enough" right now for my needs. What I really have to do is couple it to a DB backend, so that I can just ask the ticker to give me the nodes created in the last five minutes (rather than 24 hours), and then produce the sidebar out of the DB.

      This would also let me create day/week/month sidebars, handy for catching up when you've been off the net for a while. In the meantime, enjoy (and relieve the PM DB of the effort of generating the Newest Nodes page for you :).

Re: Newest Nodes feature suggestion
by liz (Monsignor) on Nov 11, 2003 at 22:57 UTC
    What would that add? If anything, I'd rather see whether there are responses to nodes already. But even that, I don't think is needed.

    The best feature of Newest Nodes is in your browser: the nodes you haven't seen yet, have a different colour. That's all I need.

    Liz

      The best feature of Newest Nodes is in your browser: the nodes you haven't seen yet, have a different colour.
      I tend to use 3 or 4 computers during the day, and pop into PM throughout the day. Browser link coloring is of little use to me. I find that I have to remember root node titles to keep track of this.

      An age indicator would have more usefulness.

      -QM
      --
      Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of

Re: Newest Nodes feature suggestion
by valdez (Monsignor) on Nov 12, 2003 at 09:53 UTC

    It shouldn't be hard, we already know the creation time of every node (see this xml ticker) and what you ask can be rendered as in chatterbox using title attribute. I'll try to create and propose a patch. But don't hold your breath :)

    Ciao, Valerio