On Wednesday, 17 October 2018 at 21:15, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 1:55 PM John Florian
<jflorian(a)doubledog.org> wrote:
>
> How does Discourse handle posts you've already read in a thread that's still
active. With things like reddit or LWN, you get to read it over and over and over again
if you really want to see whats new now.
Discourse handles this quite well actually, as long as you're logged
in. It will keep track of the last post you've seen as well as show
you counts of new messages in a particular thread. I wouldn't claim
that it's as good as an email client but it's much better than other
forums and comment sites.
How does it "know" I read a particular message over e-mail when I access
it again over the web interface? I think I can answer that without
checking: it doesn't, so you are forced to re-read or at least click
through the messages you read already in your e-mail client.
If it had a login-only NNTP interface then it would be possible to sync
"read" messages status between web and NNTP. And that would actually be
pretty cool.
Regards,
Dominik
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