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News System Updates
Posted by Magnus on 23 July 2000, 19:03 GMT
We have updated our news system with a bunch of new features. Most of the changes are "under the hood" and invisible to the user, but they should contribute to faster response times if nothing else. The most visible change is that the comment pages are split into parts when they grow large, to provide for shorter load times. Each page will link to previous and next page for navigation between the different parts.
For those linking to articles from other sites, the news article directories are now hashed, so the URL template for articles have changed. Links to our old articles will continue to work with the old address format for backwards compatibiltiy, but new articles will be in the new format.
Please answer the current survey and let us know what you think about the new format. Update (Nick): On Tuesday, I'm going to be gone for surgery. Yes, it's bad. No, it's not a life or death situation. Yes, I could probably live with it up to a certain point. No, I don't mind this happening. Yes, I'm used to having surgery. No, I shouldn't be gone long. The point: I won't be able to answer emails, AIM, ICQ, whatever - and updating this, that, and the other will be pretty much nonexistent - until I get better. It could take anywhere from three days to a week. I don't need a billion emails and/or comments and/or AIM messages telling me to get well soon, or any of that: it's really not that bad. Don't worry. :)
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Re: News System Updates
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^Andy 
(Web Page)
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the 'prev' link doesn't work
can you put an option for either this new format or the old in preferences?
that will make every1 happy i think :)
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24 July 2000, 20:48 GMT
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Re: News System Updates
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dArkSk8eR
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this is a good system, but it needs some revising...
first of all, many of the links dont work (Prev, the link to the 2nd page of game ideas, 89 puds, etc). Fix them! there also needs to be a way to jump to a certain page instead of having to click "Next" each time and ending up downloading the entire page anyways (like list the page numbers as links). There should also be an option that lets you choose to either download the entire page or download each individual page for the people with 56k+ connections. Lastly, maybe instead of going to the first individual page, the link could take you to the last individual page (so you can see the newest comments and not have to go through the old ones)
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25 July 2000, 01:36 GMT
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Re: News System Updates
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Magnus Hagander
(Web Page)
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Just a quick roundup of a couple of comments that have been posted:
* Broken links to Prev - Should be fixed now.
* Broken links to second page on Program Ideas (in fact, on almost all standalone articles) - Should be fixed now.
* Linking directly to other pages (instead of just Prev and Next). This is a problem, because when generating Page 1 (for example), the page generator does not know how many pages there will be (and this can't just be counted using num_comments/comments_per_page, because we don't break inside a thread). I will look into fixing this in some way, though, but that's the reason it hasn't been done yet.
* Having a preference to pick wether to show the full page or split - I will look into implementing this, but it can be quite complicated, so it may take a while.
* After posting acomment, you are directed back to the first page - I will look into fixing this as well. Shouldn't be *too* hard. I think.
That's about it for this time, I think. I can make no promises abuot when I'll have time to look at this, but it's now sitting on my TODO list. I hope you can live with it until it's finished. :-)
(Clear bugs will be fixed as soon as I can get a hold of them, of course. As always, please report those using mail (webmaster@ticalc.org would be a good one) instead of posting on the commentboards, so you can be certain that we read it.
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29 July 2000, 15:38 GMT
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