This is lovely stuff.

The faqlet mentions that for maxdepth Root nodes are considered to be of depth 1, and 0 means not hide any children and get the full tree in all its glory. This neatly avoids letting me use the new facility in the ideal way: with minimal nodes, and hide all children, so that if I follow each link to read the node and its children I'll have read all new nodes without duplication.

The faqlet does not make clear whether config mode settings are ephemeral or persistent.

In config mode, a section with no content shows the message nothing to see here right now, but you have the " ."section enabled.... I'm guessing the section name was supposed to go in there, but it seems to be missing.

The node seems to remember my last used set of options with regard to thread style and depth. It would be useful for the faqlet or something else to document how to construct a bookmark for a specific set of options, so that I could return to a consistent layout regardless of how I last used it; I would then probably be happy to turn off all the other control features except for "I've read all these" and possibly a "give me the control features back", and thus further reduce the size of the page.

All the actual threading display looks fine, and the faqlet seems clear and complete other than the things I mention above. Strangely, the mere fact that author names are no longer shifted off to a separate column helps to highlight the names: I'm not sure what effect that might have on my reading, but I suspect it's more likely to make me read a thread I'd otherwise have ignored than vice versa.

Oh, I just noticed the toggle, and now I realise than even when requesting the minimal set I'm still pulling the full list from PM so that the thread can be expanded. I don't need that - I'd really like to be able to minimise the amount of data I receive. So that's another thing I'd like to be able to turn off.

Hugo

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

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