|
Diary Subscriptions now in Beta on this site
|
|
By hillct , Section Code []
Posted on Tue Mar 12, 2002 at 12:00:00 PM PST
|
 |
Due to the overwhelming response to comments about diary subscriptions, I was inspired ot get off my ass and write up the feature. My implementation was inspired by the excellant work of dannygene on his first scoop patch, with help of Defect and others in initial testing & debugging.
You'll find a 'subscribe' link next to each author's name on stories. Make sure you have enabled the 'Flexible Hotlist Box' in your scoop.k5 display preferences, and you'll see a link at the top to specify the 'Diaries' view of your hotlist. Check it out. Let me know what you think.
Update [2002-3-13 14:29:27 by hillct]: I have modified the behavior of the 'Stories' view of hotlist_flex such that diaries belonging to the logged in user are not listed there any longer. It seemed useful to have them listed there since they were material written by the current user, and that is what that view was intended for, but I am not a heavy user of diaries and I understand from a few who have voiced their opinion, that listing diaries in this view would make for a vary large list vary quickly, with limited benefit. Let me know if the new behavior is better or worse.
|
After reading things like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Some folks asked nicely and others whined about it. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which is which ;) but anyway, it needed to get done so it got done.
The usage of the diary subscription mechanism should be self explanatory. I know the first question people will have is about the definition of "new". My definition of "new" is any unread diary entry posted by a user to whom you've subscribed, regardless of it's actual age. This is more encompasing than the definition used in dannygene's code. I think arguments could be made in support of either method, but for query efficiency, I chose this method.
Let me know your thoughts on this subscription mechanism and how it can be improved.
NOTE: The version of hotlist_flex available on the Scoop Box Exchange is version 0.2.3 and the version that supppots display of diary subscriptions is 0.3.1 which will be released after a (hopefully short) beta testing period on scoop.k5. Also, there was a one line change to the codebase to facilitate this functionality, so when released, folks wanting to make use of it, will need to upgrade to the '2002/03/12 01:31:20'
or later CVS image. |
|
|
Story Views
|
|
56 Scoop users have viewed this story.
|
|
