I arrived at the Monastery Gates this morning and saw L~R's fine node on turning a Perl script into a Win32 service, with the notation '5 replies', two more than when I saw it last night, and I found myself wondering if any of the replies had generated a big long thread, as sometimes happens.

The answer is that there are three re-replies, so not much has happened to that node. My idea is a follow-on to demerphq's Recently Active Threads page -- would it be appropriate to add a little more detail to the node header, say, the total number of nodes and/or time and date of the most recent activity?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re: 5 direct replies, 3 other replies
by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 10, 2008 at 19:42 UTC

    Mm. Well, the info is there in RAT. It would certainly be nice if places like The Monastery Gates could show both direct and total reply counts. Unfortunately, the way the code is "factored", this would be a significantly non-trivial change. It wouldn't be, except that any refactoring of code is non-trivial, disruptive, and risky. Sure, it could be done. Would it be worth it?

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