It seems to me that what you actually want is a new mode that is something like the ancestors view but contains only the earliest common ancestor to all new nodes in the thread and nothing more.

Close: I want the earliest common new ancestor to each new subthread. I want the minimal set of links such that if I click each link and read that node and its children I'll read all new nodes and nothing but new nodes.

So I guess that means I want to see all new nodes except the ones that have a parent which is also new.

In practice I'd probably end up using 'Root and Node' rather than 'Minimal', to give a better visual binding of new subthreads to a non-new thread, and also to give me the option of saying "almost the whole of the thread is new - it'd be easier to load the root and read the whole thread (even though it includes some non-new nodes) rather than to load each subthread independently".

While the earliest common (non-new) ancestor would occasionally be more useful than the root, few non-root nodes get more than a couple of responses, and only very rarely will a non-root node have had a significant number of responses since I last "read all these nodes".

Oh, I should also have mentioned that the only age distinction I care about is 'new' vs 'non-new'.

Hugo

In reply to Re^3: (announce) Recently Active Nodes by hv
in thread (announce) Recently Active Threads by demerphq

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