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Folding Recent Posts

You may have noticed that the type systems thread dominates the Recent Posts list. :/ Wouldn't it be nice if Recent Posts only showed the last n posts in a topic, and concluded with a link like "... (click for more) ..." or something if necessary? Or even, if you were logged in, if it showed only the new (asterisked) posts in each thread?

By Frank Atanassow at 2004-08-08 15:40 | Site Discussion | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 6817 reads

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Recent Posts now limited to 10 comments per thread

Good idea. As a first approximation to your request, I've simply limited each thread to displaying a maximum of 10 comments on the Recent Posts page. [edit: there's now a final bullet which reads "..." if more comments exist in that thread.]

If anyone has problems with this, please say so. (I'm just taking a path of least resistance, but if it's not good enough, I want to hear it.)

I'm still planning to provide a pure chronological list of most recent posts (whether stories, forum posts, or comments), which would not be by thread.

By Anton van Straaten at Sun, 2004-08-08 18:35 | login or register to post comments