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DiBona Think about Loose Coupling  Re: bivnn.cgi -- an alternate
interface to newest nodes (batch older nodes by parent)  by
grinder (Bishop) on Sep 30, 2001 at 19:37 UTC
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bivnn.cgi -- an alternate interface to newest nodes  You are
right when you say xNN is difficult to hack on. It takes a while
to get used to epoptai's style. I keep telling myself I should
sit down and refactor it one day.  One of the nice features xNN
has, that bivnn yet lacks, is displaying the response nodes in
their threaded order underneath a primary node. It's a really
effective way of letting you see how busy a node is, long vs.
deep, bushy vs. thin and so forth.  Secondly, for new nodes that
are replies to older nodes that themselves have fallen of the
end of the newest nodes, they get listed in a separate section,
with a link to the parent node as well. This lets you jump
straight to the parent node, so tha