Re: feature questions

Posted by dlang on May 18, 2011; 4:56am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/feature-questions-tp6376340p6376439.html

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

dlang wrote

I see Nabble doing e-mail and web with the same content, the page on the 'universal back-end' points out how new (nntp) is structured similarly, is it possible to have nntp, e-mail, and web all showing the same content?

Sorry, I don't understand your question here.

I have some users who want to use e-mail, some who want to use a browser, and some that want to use a news reader, they all need to see the same content.

Nabble looks like it does a good job of displaying the mail and dealing with mailing lists, can I add a news server to this (with items posted to the news server then showing up in e-mail, etc)

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

dlang wrote

is there any way to mark messages as being 'seen' for a user (either per topic or overall) so that on repeated visits it's easy to see what's new?

We do have this feature. The system controls the last visited date/time of each user for each topic. It uses this information to paint the color of the links (visited vs. unvisited) on the forum page. Also, when you open a topic, the system shows in bold font the messages posted after the last visit (threaded/list views only).

Good, I assume that with the template stuff that you referred to I could collapse already read messages.

what about the ability to have the last visited updated manually? or check back to prior times?

for example, lwn.net has a Comments/unread page that shows you all new comments since your last visit, but if something happens and you end up having to refresh the page before you finish reading (say your browser crashes) you can pick from your 5 prior checks

being able to manually mark "I've read everything in this topic" or "I've read everything in every topic" is handy to have if you know ahead of time that you aren't going to have time to read everything, but want to check for something (achieved by _not_ selecting the 'I've read buttons'), and it also lets you decide that you don't care about anything currently there (possibly by just looking at the subjects/authors)

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

dlang wrote

is there a way to set user preferences for the view type (threaded, normal, list)

These views are sticky. The one you choose is kept until you switch to another view.

Ok, I haven't seen that yet (I suspect it's because of the number of tabs I have open)

Thanks
David Lang