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dlang
it would be nice to have a button to expand/collapse all posts, all new posts, or separate buttons for each when in list/threaded view.
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Hugo <Nabble>
The threaded/list views could be difficult to follow if you have several posts open at the same time. I think it is easier and more controllable if you open/close one post at a time to keep track of what is going on. It is fairly easy to spot the unread (i.e., bold) messages in those two views, so I think that should work fine for most users.
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dlang
if you have a thread with 50 messages, 10 of which are new, it's a hassle
to have to click on each of the new messages to see them. it would be very
nice to be able to click on one thing (and only have one round trip to the
server on a slow connection) to expand them all. being able to expand them
all is useful for when you want to see the full context of the message,
again, having to click once for each message is a hassle and can be very
slow.

given how the full messages are indented along with the collapsed ones, it
doesn't seem hard to keep them straight.

David Lang

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> The threaded/list views could be difficult to follow if you have several
> posts open at the same time. I think it is easier and more controllable if
> you open/close one post at a time to keep track of what is going on. It is
> fairly easy to spot the unread (i.e., bold) messages in those two views, so
> I think that should work fine for most users.
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dlang
In reply to this post by Hugo <Nabble>
On Mon, 23 May 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> The threaded/list views could be difficult to follow if you have several
> posts open at the same time. I think it is easier and more controllable if
> you open/close one post at a time to keep track of what is going on. It is
> fairly easy to spot the unread (i.e., bold) messages in those two views, so
> I think that should work fine for most users.

a post from one of the users on this topic

the tree should have a single-button click that will display every message
in the tree, no matter how old. The MP3News tree automatically displayed
new messages in the tree, but in a large thread you might spend 15 minutes
clicking little plus boxes to find an old message
that you wished to refer to.

David Lang
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Hugo <Nabble>
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We use ajax to retrive the posts in a threaded tree. So the basic implementation I see here is to create a javascript function that clicks on the unread messages for you, but this would still send one request per post. Merging requests would be a very big change, considering that the javascript on that page is already complex enough. Would the javascript function above work for you? Is your connection usually slow? In any case, we wouldn't push this change to all Nabble users. This would be a custom change to the templates of your apps only. Please let me know what you think.
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dlang
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> We use ajax to retrive the posts in a threaded tree. So the basic
> implementation I see here is to create a javascript function that clicks on
> the unread messages for you, but this would still send one request per post.
> Merging requests would be a very big change, considering that the javascript
> on that page is already complex enough. Would the javascript function above
> work for you? Is your connection usually slow? In any case, we wouldn't push
> this change to all Nabble users. This would be a custom change to the
> templates of your apps only. Please let me know what you think.

I'd have to try it. when connecting over a cell connection, each
connection can be pretty slow.

Since this would be a template change, I'll wait for the templates to be
released.

David Lang
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Hugo <Nabble>
dlang wrote
Since this would be a template change, I'll wait for the templates to be
released.
Okay, I will explain to you how to change this when templates are available.
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dlang
how are you doing on the development/release of the templates?

David Lang

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:23:05 -0700 (PDT)
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>> Since this would be a template change, I'll wait for the templates to be
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> Okay, I will explain to you how to change this when templates are available.
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Hugo <Nabble>
We are finishing some details. It may be released in one week (could be two weeks, but I am not sure).
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dlang
one week later, how is it comeing?

if you can't tell, I'm eagerly awaiting this ;-)

David Lang

On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> We are finishing some details. It may be released in one week (could be two
> weeks, but I am not sure).
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Hugo <Nabble>
We are improving a few things in the language in order to make it more flexible. This will allow us to build add-ons for Nabble that people can enable/disable (e.g., new content types, page layouts and designs, new features, etc). This shouldn't take too long. Maybe you should subscribe to our news page so that you can get updates by email:
http://nabble-support.1.n2.nabble.com/Nabble-Latest-Features-f1559156.html

I will probably update that page very soon.
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dlang
Thanks, I will do so (the fact that th page had not been updated since
december would have made me think it wasn't being updated anymore)

David Lang

On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hugo <Nabble> [via Nabble Support] wrote:

> We are improving a few things in the language in order to make it more
> flexible. This will allow us to build add-ons for Nabble that people can
> enable/disable (e.g., new content types, page layouts and designs, new
> features, etc). This shouldn't take too long. Maybe you should subscribe to
> our news page so that you can get updates by email:
> http://nabble-support.1.n2.nabble.com/Nabble-Latest-Features-f1559156.html