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Reading comments

Posted Jun 6, 2003 17:12 UTC (Fri) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123)
In reply to: Reading comments by corbet
Parent article: A quick LWN update

I'd like to have the number of comments encoded in the Comments link. For example:
<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/34693/?numcomments=14">
That way my browser do the work of figuring out whether there are new comments: if there aren't, the link will show up in the "link followed" style.

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Reading comments

Posted Jun 6, 2003 17:19 UTC (Fri) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Others have suggested encoding the number of comments. It could be done, and is on the list.

There is one feature of the LWN site that we've never publicised, but which might be handy for people wanting to see new comments: http://lwn.net/Comments/ is a simple, time-sorted display of the most recent posts. Basic, but, perhaps, better than nothing.