02-20-2003, 03:34 PM
I have to agree with Pete as well.
I am even learning to live with all the clicking that this threaded view makes you do (and using my page down key a whole lot more).
I am still working on having not only the tree but a view of all the posts, indentation is being a little silly right now, and there is more code that needs to be changed than I first thought and I have less time to work on it than I thought, I am starting to think I won't be able to do it.
I haven't looked at the linear view since my first visit to the boards, even when reading the threads. There are a few non threaded forums I go to where there is a lot of discussion, and you have to do so much quoting and embedded quotes that it just gets silly, and I wish it was threaded.
The linear view is just so telnet citadel based BBS to me, the web display is more powerful, and the power should be used to assist in the conveyance of ideas, not just in eye candy. Too bad all the web BBS coders seem to have never seen threads before so they don't even try to implement them. Really the only real problem with the DC boards was that it didn't have an actual database back-end. Navigation was still pretty simple, it just lacked some of the candy and shortcuts of this.
I am even learning to live with all the clicking that this threaded view makes you do (and using my page down key a whole lot more).
I am still working on having not only the tree but a view of all the posts, indentation is being a little silly right now, and there is more code that needs to be changed than I first thought and I have less time to work on it than I thought, I am starting to think I won't be able to do it.
I haven't looked at the linear view since my first visit to the boards, even when reading the threads. There are a few non threaded forums I go to where there is a lot of discussion, and you have to do so much quoting and embedded quotes that it just gets silly, and I wish it was threaded.
The linear view is just so telnet citadel based BBS to me, the web display is more powerful, and the power should be used to assist in the conveyance of ideas, not just in eye candy. Too bad all the web BBS coders seem to have never seen threads before so they don't even try to implement them. Really the only real problem with the DC boards was that it didn't have an actual database back-end. Navigation was still pretty simple, it just lacked some of the candy and shortcuts of this.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.