> If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
1) a way to rank/vote for threads would be an immense resource to the communtiy. a collection of the most popular threads would be such a great learning tool - you could seed it with the 100 largest and let the voting take off from there.
ideally there would be a way to vote from the list itself.. eg a message with the body
ruby-talk ranking : 99
or some simple way so we don't have to pull up web browsers to do it.
2) people with non-threading muas should be banned from being archived on the site. ;-)
cheers.
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> > > If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a > > > mail. > > Wow! I think that's just smooth. Nice job. > Yes, very. This might become the preferred way to monitor this list > ;-)
Why, exactly? People may use any method they prefer, but what's wrong with ruby-talk.org, google-groups, gmane, the newsgroup gateway, or the actual mailing list?
I find forums to be the most inefficient way to manage information of all of the above.
nikolai
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- It needs a RegEX to remove all email addresses from the message body (john....@gmail.com -> john.doe@...)
- While removing the email addresses, it should scan them to see if any of the registered members have that email, if so then link to that user to send them a private message
- Notifications. This is one of the main things that I would see greatly shifting me to use the site primarily. Within my user preferences, to be able to customize my key words and add flags. So if someone mentions "Engines" I get a notification sent to me, with the thread that has accumulated already. When new messages arrive to threads I have already received, I only receive the pieces that are new.
- Someone else said this already, but I want to emphasize how sweet it would be to track all messages by a certain email (whether they are registered or not) as well as registered members. It would also be great to include this in the search feature as well, to be able to filter the messages by user. There are a few key people that I would like to keep tabs on ;) In addition, when viewing a profile, to list all the recent posts by this user.
- Someone mentioned this already as well, to be able to categorize the message threads by tag. Allowing people to tag things with similar style to that of de.licio.us, whereby there is a list of recommended tags available below the input which scans the email and grabs the keywords based on the index of tags already. Actually, automated tagging would be sweet. Where people don't have to actually tag anything, it just scans the message for a index of keywords and whatever ones it finds, it tags it with. So if someone says "Engines" in there message, or "ActiveRecord" or "AR", then the message gets tagged.
- Users could add additional index tags if they feel its necessary, such as "acts_as_authenticated", or "ACL".
In all, these would only make what you have done that much better. But even without these suggestions, it's a great tool. Nice work!
Warmest regards, Nathan.
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> -----Original Message----- > From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:ja...@grayproductions.net] > Sent: November 13, 2005 4:19 PM > To: ruby-talk ML > Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby Forum
> On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing > > lists:
Nikolai Weibull wrote: >>Yes, very. This might become the preferred way to monitor this list >>;-)
>Why, exactly? People may use any method they prefer, but what's wrong >with ruby-talk.org, google-groups, gmane, the newsgroup gateway, or the >actual mailing list?
An advantage that the web forum adds is that it sorts threads by date of most recent posting, rather than first post. (I wish Thunderbird had that option.) Another is that it's both portable (thin-client) and personal (keeps track of read/unread via your username).
I'll keep using the mailing list, myself; I'm just trying to answer your question.
On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Why, exactly? People may use any method they prefer, but what's wrong > with ruby-talk.org, google-groups, gmane, the newsgroup gateway, or > the > actual mailing list?
I could list a whole lot of things I find very wrong with gmane... ;)
Seriously, I don't subscribe to the Rails list, because the traffic is too much for me, in addition to Ruby Talk. I do sometimes need to search there or ask questions and this will be quite perfect for that.
> On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> > Why, exactly? People may use any method they prefer, but what's wrong > > with ruby-talk.org, google-groups, gmane, the newsgroup gateway, or > > the > > actual mailing list?
> I could list a whole lot of things I find very wrong with gmane... ;)
> Seriously, I don't subscribe to the Rails list, because the traffic > is too much for me, in addition to Ruby Talk. I do sometimes need to > search there or ask questions and this will be quite perfect for that.
> An advantage that the web forum adds is that it sorts threads by date of > most recent posting, rather than first post. (I wish Thunderbird had > that option.)
> On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > Why, exactly? People may use any method they prefer, but what's > > wrong with ruby-talk.org, google-groups, gmane, the newsgroup > > gateway, or the actual mailing list? > I could list a whole lot of things I find very wrong with gmane... ;)
What about google-groups?
nikolai
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>> An advantage that the web forum adds is that it sorts threads by date >> of most recent posting, rather than first post. (I wish Thunderbird >> had that option.)
> is'nt that what you get by clicking on "date"?
In unthreaded mode, all the posts are intermingled. Right now, I'm looking at Re: Rmagic 1.9, Re: Heirarchy T.., Re: [ANN] Ferret, Re: rubycocoa, Re: Forum, etc. in the message index pane. I prefer, actually, to sort by Order Received because senders' mail clients often lie (or are confused) about the current datetime.
In threaded mode, posts are grouped together and put in pretty threads. However, a thread that was created at the dawn of time stays at the very bottom my list, even if it was just replied to a minute ago. Since I only read about 30% of ruby-talk, that means I'd never notice it, 'cause it's just another old unread message. Rather, if threads were sorted by *most* recent posting, I'd see it as I scroll by the new posts, and get to decide what I want to do with it. (You can argue about the utility of this feature with yourself, but it is [AFAIK] different from what Thunderbird provides.)
