No repetition in the new notes of newest nodes

For me, it is more important to know that there are new notes on a thread than to be given many redundant references to the thread. For once I revisit the node, I will look at all new notes there.

Take a look at this new notes output:

                                                  by gaudior
   Re: compressed? JAPH
                                                  by no_slogan
   Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by mirod
   (arturo) Re (3) : New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by arturo
   Re: Perl Module Education
                                                  by radman
   Re: Program Repair Shop and Red Flags
                                                  by Dominus
   Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by diarmuid
   Re: Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
                                                  by AidanLee
   Re: Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
                                                  by voyager
   Re: TPJ Subscription Question
                                                  by $code or die
   Re: Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by Tanya
   Re: Re: Another golf style?
                                                  by Brovnik
   Re: Re: The right way to avoid an error
                                                  by diarmuid
   Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
                                                  by Buckaroo Buddha
   (boo) Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by boo_radley
   Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by AidanLee
   Re: Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
                                                  by voyager
 
   Re: The right way to avoid an error
                                                  by arturo
   Re: The right way to avoid an error
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If this were compressed into only showing the thread for each of these notes we would have:



                                                  by gaudior
   Re: compressed? JAPH
                                                  by no_slogan
   Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by mirod
  
   Re: Perl Module Education
                                                  by radman
   Re: Program Repair Shop and Red Flags
                                                  by Dominus
  
   Re: Re: Re: Simple Question for you guys.
                                                  by AidanLee
 
   Re: TPJ Subscription Question
                                                  by $code or die
  
   Re: Re: Another golf style?
                                                  by Brovnik
   Re: Re: The right way to avoid an error
                                                  by diarmuid
  
   (boo) Re: New perl student... feeling stupid
                                                  by boo_radley
 
   Re: The right way to avoid an error
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Re: No repetition in the new notes of newest nodes by footpad (Abbot) on May 19, 2001 at 02:06 UTC
Actually, this might be possible with a few (more) tweaks to Super Search, which currently lets you constrain searches on Date and restrict searches to Notes (aka Replies). If, as been recommended before, we added: The ability to sort super search results. Included authors in the result list Were able to constrain searches on relative dates, such as: In the last hour In the last day In the last week In the last month and so on Were able to link to Super Search results, e.g. the query could be expressed as a GET query Then, you'd be able to design a Super Search along these lines and save it to your Personal Nodelet. Similarly, you'd be able to some variations on the theme that others might find useful as well. In the mean time, you might be able to rig your own solution based on tilly's Perlmonks Navigator or epoptai's xNN. --f	[reply]
Re: No repetition in the new notes of newest nodes by neshura (Chaplain) on May 18, 2001 at 23:31 UTC
Theoretically, you could reduce this to the point such that the page only shows a pointer to a root node when some element in that thread has been changed or updated. But then once you go to the thread, how do you know what to look for if you are trying to find the new information, unless you've been reloading the thread consistently? I like the idea of "subscribing" to a given root node, and receiving /msgs when it is updated -- an idea that's been tossed around before. Also, your idea would make it much harder to personality-vote on posts and we can't have that. :D e-mail neshura	[reply]