Hi,
I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing
lists:
If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
Andreas
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Wow! I think that's just smooth. Nice job.
James Edward Gray II
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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:If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing lists:
very cool
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.
-a
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Andreas;
This looks splendid. Well done.
If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
My only suggestion is kinda knit-pickedy, but it's hard to tell which
threads have already been read in the thread list. Maybe a bit more
contrast for the followed links?
Again, great job.
andreas wrote:
I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing lists:
If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
I very much like the "if you log in, threads with messages you haven't
read are in bold" feature. And the "sort threads by most recent
activity feature".
But it would be _much_ more useful if it used the info more, so that
when I go into a thread where I've not read (say) the last 3 out of 40
messages, instead of having to jump to the bottom and move up to see the
newest stuff, the page produced had
Display already-read messages
----------------------------- (that's supposed to be a URL)
followed by the messages I haven't yet read. That would mean that I'd
be fine if I had only read 23 of the 40 messages as well...
(Can we get to threads older than the ones shown? Activity seems to be
falling off the bottom quickly, unless I read from the bottom up....)
The option for a hierarchical display of sender / time / header, with
bold marking unread posts, showing only text for unread posts, and an
AJAX mechanism to get the text of any/all desired already-read posts --
that would be truly excellent.
There were some discussions about people having a way to vote for
threads. That, and a way to nominate answers for some kind of FAQ,
would be other great additions. Are you planning either of those?
Thanks for the effort.
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andreas wrote:
Hi,
I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing
lists:If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
Andreas
This is JUST FANTASTIC !
Apart from some small suggestions (concerning email/spam)
Please KISS and don't touch it ! 
Congrats,
Andre
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james wrote:
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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: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
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This is a wonderful piece of software.
A few features I would like to see:
- It needs a RegEX to remove all email addresses from the message body
(john.doe@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:james@grayproductions.net]
Sent: November 13, 2005 4:19 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby ForumOn 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:
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/
>
> If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send
me a mail.Wow! I think that's just smooth. Nice job.
James Edward Gray II
ljscoras wrote:
Andreas;
This looks splendid. Well done.
Thanks.
If you notice problems or have any suggestions, please send me a mail.
My only suggestion is kinda knit-pickedy, but it's hard to tell which
threads have already been read in the thread list. Maybe a bit more
contrast for the followed links?
If you are logged in threads with posts that you have not yet read are
displayed in bold face.
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j-merrill wrote:
I very much like the "if you log in, threads with messages you haven't
read are in bold" feature. And the "sort threads by most recent
activity feature".But it would be _much_ more useful if it used the info more, so that
when I go into a thread where I've not read (say) the last 3 out of 40
messages, instead of having to jump to the bottom and move up to see the
newest stuff
The forum creates an anchor called "new" on the first new post, so if
you open the topic your browser should jump to the first post you
haven't read yet. Doesn't this work for you?
The option for a hierarchical display of sender / time / header, with
bold marking unread posts, showing only text for unread posts, and an
AJAX mechanism to get the text of any/all desired already-read posts --
that would be truly excellent.
That should not be too hard to implement. Though other things are more
important first.
There were some discussions about people having a way to vote for
threads. That, and a way to nominate answers for some kind of FAQ,
would be other great additions. Are you planning either of those?
Voting is planned (actually it's already implemented in the model, only
the view/controller stuff is missing).
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Yes. This is very nice. And I love the suggestion for voting.
I'd also like to see user modifyable tags if possible.
Then we can categorize posts and make it really easy to search them.
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On 11/13/05, Anon <forumpost@> wrote:
I _love_ how simple the design is.
Toby DiPasquale wrote:
james wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have set up a forum that mirrors the ruby-talk and rails mailing
> > lists:
> >
> > http://www.ruby-forum.com/
> >
> > 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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> On Nov 13, 2005, at 5:03 PM, Andreas Schwarz wrote:
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This is ultimately nonsensical, as the public archives have the email
addresses in plaintext.
-austin
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On 11/13/05, Nathaniel S. H. Brown <nshb@inimit.com> wrote:
- It needs a RegEX to remove all email addresses from the message body
(john.doe@gmail.com -> john.doe@...)
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andreas wrote:
j-merrill wrote:
I very much like the "if you log in, threads with messages you haven't
read are in bold" feature. And the "sort threads by most recent
activity feature".But it would be _much_ more useful if it used the info more, so that
when I go into a thread where I've not read (say) the last 3 out of 40
messages, instead of having to jump to the bottom and move up to see the
newest stuffThe forum creates an anchor called "new" on the first new post, so if
you open the topic your browser should jump to the first post you
haven't read yet. Doesn't this work for you?
Hmmm, it might well -- this is the only thread that's had new posts (by
someone other than me) since I read it, and it seems I got directly to
the message I'm replying to when it (again) was shown as bold.
We'll see when you answer this.
What's the story about getting to older threads?
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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.
Devin
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.
Just one opinion.
James Edward Gray II
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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?
Having one less place where spam filters can grab my email address, I would
indeed like to see added
The public archives *hopefully* have filters for headers that prevent this
sort of thing, but in any case, this is something that should be done by
default. Google has implemented this as well.
Warmest regards,
Nathan.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Ziegler [mailto:halostatue@gmail.com]
Sent: November 14, 2005 10:31 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby ForumOn 11/13/05, Nathaniel S. H. Brown <nshb@inimit.com> wrote:
> - It needs a RegEX to remove all email addresses from the
message body
> (john.doe@gmail.com -> john.doe@...)This is ultimately nonsensical, as the public archives have
the email addresses in plaintext.-austin
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j-merrill wrote:
What's the story about getting to older threads?
http://www.ruby-forum.com/forum/4?page=2
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I allways found this http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ruby-talk&r=1&w=2
pretty good.
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On 11/14/05, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
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.Just one opinion.
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