2023-05-22 A read-only web front-end for a news server

I should be working, but instead I wrote a thing…

This is short:

https://campaignwiki.org/news

Source:

https://src.alexschroeder.ch/news.git

CPAN (not quite up to date):

https://metacpan.org/dist/App-news

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Not sure how important links to next/previous articles are nor how important links to responses to the current articles are. Perhaps not really, since on the browser you can always go back quickly and click the next link. And really: why wouldn’t you want to use a news reader! 😆

– Alex 2023-05-22 15:19 UTC

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I guess we could add posting if we reused the credentials used to protect the news server…

– Alex 2023-05-22 16:20 UTC

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OK, next up:

• Writing replies to a post.
• Moving the next and previous article in a group.
• Finding all the articles in a conversation using XPAT. Cache the thread for each pattern. This would allow navigation to the next and to the previous article within the thread.
• Show a threaded view for the group.

XPAT

– Alex 2023-05-23 13:43 UTC

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Posting and replies to posts via the web work – if you have an account. There is no threading and no way to go to the “next” article. But perhaps that’s not needed after all because right now caching makes movement fast?

– Alex 2023-05-24 06:14 UTC