Re: feature questions

Posted by Hugo <Nabble> on May 18, 2011; 6:51pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/feature-questions-tp6376340p6379016.html

dlang wrote

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)

We don't have specific code for news servers, so I am not sure we can support this. If your news servers can act like a mailing list server, then it should be possible to integrate them.

dlang wrote

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

In theory, anything will be possible because you will have full control over the HTML pages of your forum. In the worst case, you would have to implement a java module to do some hard work in the back end.

dlang wrote

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)

This is also possible to implement with our templating language. Such changes wouldn't be dead simple, but are certainly possible.