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Matrix Dragon
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Oct-07-15, 04:33 AM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: Please add an option for flat post display"
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I'm using my limited and long neglected skills in programming to try and imagine just what it would take to try and make this old software work like that. Without causing total code implosion somewhere and making more of the old threads disappear in a puff of 'divide by zero' while no one is looking. My brain keeps returning to a line from Atomic Robo. "Imagine juggling chainsaws whose handles are made of smaller chainsaws." Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter |
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Peter Eng
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Oct-09-15, 06:27 PM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: Please add an option for flat post display"
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>Now, I get that some of y'all are ancient graybeards that grew up >using BBS and Usenet and such where threaded discussion is normal, but >having everything laid out in a fashion you'd find on any modern forum >would be nice. It's obnoxious when I go to a thread I've been posting >in and try to find the lastest posts and I can't because they are >buried god knows where in the mess of threads. I know it's horribly complex to read down the list of numbers on the right and find the largest numbers, but it's a remarkably robust algorithm once you finish debugging it. Peter Eng -- Insert humorous comment here. |
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rwpikul
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Oct-10-15, 01:14 AM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: Please add an option for flat post display"
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>I know it's horribly complex to read down the list of numbers on the >right and find the largest numbers, but it's a remarkably robust >algorithm once you finish debugging it. I just look at the tree diagram and do one of two things: Open the new posts in new tabs, (if there are only a few and/or they are scattered). Make note of where the active subthread is before showing everything. -- Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad) |
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