LWN meta-news [LWN.net]

LWN meta-news

Posted Oct 30, 2002 17:03 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
Parent article: LWN meta-news

A few wishlist features:

When you have to log in to follow a link, and you log in, it would be nice to go directly to the page you were going to in the first place. But not a big deal.

For the links to stories that can have comments, it would be nice to have the number of comments in the URL (but ignored by the page you get to). That way, the link only looks "visited" when there aren't any comments since you last read the page. It should be pretty trivial to do, since you're putting the number of comments in the link text anyway.

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Put comment count in URL

Posted Oct 30, 2002 18:03 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Thank you!

That is *the* cleverest solution to that I've ever seen.

Put comment count in URL

Posted Oct 31, 2002 5:35 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

It's actually a feature from livejournal, so I can't take credit for it. But I'm happy to promote sharing of ideas between open source projects. :)

Put comment count in URL

Posted Nov 11, 2002 20:25 UTC (Mon) by gravious (guest, #7662) [Link]

¿And LWN is an Open Source project how?

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Posted Oct 31, 2002 8:51 UTC (Thu) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link]

another option that would be useful would be the ability to show all the comments. I am one of those who still use the 'one big page' setting and it's sometimes frustrating to read a story, decide I want to see the comments, so I have to download the story again to get the page with the comments on it

if there are to many comments this could be a problem, but we are a ways away from that still.

David Lang

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Posted Nov 3, 2002 19:47 UTC (Sun) by lamikr (subscriber, #2289) [Link]

I would also like to see some kind of "show all including comments" bigpage option as I sometimes print the whole magazine and read it in the train...

Mika