Moving to next unread newsgroup

[ecasey]

Currently, when reading a group of messages it is limited to a set of up to 100 messages, and when you get to the end you must exit (x out) of reader and select next echo/message set.

I assume the message set limit of 100 is to avoid resource problems (loading too many messages at once). If that is the case, I can accept the limit. Could larger limits be added to settings 200,300,400,500 ? I guess it is all depended on size and content of messages as to how much memory such large message sets would require.

Two scenarios:

1. i select only show unread echoes. I start reading an echo. It has 14 messages, when I reach the last one I have to exit and select next echo. Could an option be added to goto the next unread echo; without having to exit?

2. I open a busy echo with more than 100 messages (unread). When I hit the 100th message could we have a continue/reload button to load the next 100 without having to exit the reader ?

If I have missed ways to avoid having to exit, and reenter an echo when not finished with messages -- please let me know. Sometimes, I overlook obvious functions :-)

[awehttam]

If I understand your report correctly, I'm hearing:

• When reading an echomail group the reader stops at the last message of the current page. The reader has to exit, go to the next page and then start reading. The pagination needs to be smarter.
• When done reading the current group move to the next group while honouring whether the echo list area is set to show groups with unread messages or not (only applies to echo area listing page, not echo reader page). This is more complicated and I'd have to investigate further how to implement thiis

[awehttam]

I've implemented the following changes - could you test them out on Claude's and let me know what you think?

• When hitting the end of the current page of messages, the 'next message' button now advances to the next page and message
• When hitting the end of the current group, the 'next message' button will now display a message indicating you've reached the end of the group and ask if you want to proceed to the next subscribed group.

I can't easily differentiate whether you're surfing a list of unsubscribed/all groups or just subscribed groups, so I've left it to advance to the next subscribed group.

[ecasey]

moving through messages seems to work as expected. but the end of group scenario , I'm not seeing a next group prompt. see screen shot.

Am I missing a "next" button in the screen capture, looks to be greyed out.

See you moved kludge and added print button. Nice change/addition.

I also thought, stepping through messages looped on last 100 but cannot recreate. i was walking through bbs_ads, and never got an end of message screen. went back to group said I had 100 unread, walked through them and it marked them as read. so I may have just lost my place due to so many groups of 100 LOL!

[awehttam]

The missing next group button has been fixed. Also changed the pagination to make more sense. Yeah this is way better! Thanks!

[awehttam]

Regarding the 100 upper limit, it's just an arbitrary limit. I think I can increase it. What would you use?

[ecasey]

Looking nice. But did run into one issue, it went to next subscribed group. But when it opened it said 2 unread but did not list any messages for Echomail / AMATEUR_RADIO. so not sure what is out of sync, so may want to also check if there are messages when switching to next group. I stand corrected, when I goto the echo directly

now I see the 2 unread messages. So I'm not sure why it didn't display when I was moved to it via "next" newsgroup. Maybe something wasn't handed off clean and it got confused?

i'm getting use to 100 as a limit; since it is used to limit the number of things displayed more maybe confusing and unbareable.

But where i really would love a higher limit is in the select function. if i'm catching up in a group would love to be able to click select , and be able to enter a value up to max # of messages in group or have a button to say mark All or delete ALL; both asking with a popup dialog are you sure -- for us impatient folks that click things accidentally sometimes.

Loving the smooth navigation without having to back to echo list.

[awehttam]

It sounds like I introduced a bug with the "remember what page I was on" feature I added this morning:

The root cause was the page memory restoring a page number that was valid for a previous visit (when the area
had more messages) but is now beyond the last page. The fix auto-resets to page 1 whenever the API returns empty
results for a page that shouldn't exist.

re: longer select range - that's not possible without changing the size of the page. I've added 250 and 500 to the "Messages per Page" setting in user settings. I know it's not quite what you're looking for but is about the best I can come up with in this implementation.

[ecasey]

Thanks. I think that will be great. now with the smooth transition from NG to NG; things will be more enjoyable. And if I set it at 500 will be less groups -- I need to get caught up on stuff. Have lots of old stuff. Still don't have my message areas cleaned up. Need to do that. Make sure I have all networks,and add those I'm missing to match my BBS.