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Posted Jun 2, 2002 2:03 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

I concur with Rob's opinion; by all means keep the new items at the top of the page.

On a related topic, with Konq from KDE2, note that the text entry boxes are overly wide, even at 800x600. Boxes I have to scroll the browser window to see irk me only slightly less than ones which I have to scroll (themselves) while entering text in -- a problem you thankfully don't have.

But, to reiterate my email comment, I think you *really* ought to look into a Usenet feed, with a bidirectional gateway to the website -- I *hate* web interfaces; there are too many of them, and the problem is long since already solved: slrn does it quite nicely. Or, y'know, whatever other newsreader someone likes...

I'd be more than pleased to submit design suggestions thereon, if you like..

Oh, and requiring us to do the formatting is ok by me... but it'd be nice if you mentioned what HTML is acceptable...
-- jra

Posted Jun 2, 2002 17:27 UTC (Sun) by rzm (guest, #116) [Link]

> I disagree-- I really like having the newest news right at the top.
> lwn.net/daily is a site I visit extremely regularly. When I go into
> "procrastination mode" (which I do a lot), I'll cruise by the site...
> and at an instant glance once the site loads I can see if there is
> anything new.

There may be a way to satisfy both your and my aproach. If we have to use accounts (a small girl in a progressive kidergarten asks: do we _have_ to do whaterver we want also today?) the direction of the news-items list could be a configurable option.

One more thing for TODO list: I would like to be able to answer with the previous writer's text included automatically.