What would it take to get trn on the web?

[nancylebov]

It seems to be technically possible now that Javascript is in common use. It would make long discussions easier to read and navigate. I believe that making long discussions more feasible would make the web a better place, and killfiles might be a noticeable win too.

I've mentioned this, and been told that it wouldn't be that hard to write, but it's too boring.

The question has been raised of whether money would make it interesting, and if so, how much. Any opinions?

(I put this in terms of trn because that's what I was happy with. I don't know whether slrn has a huge advantage, or if it would be much more trouble to write.)

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

This is a very interesting idea. What features specifically do you miss? per-user killfiles? muting of threads? persistent marking of what you've already seen?

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

That last is the most important to me. The lack of it makes tracking the new material in a long lj thread time-consuming and inefficient. I could settle for just that feature (lj could do a faded line for comments I've read, while leaving unread comments at full contrast) with none of the others.

I never actually used a killfile-- I killfiled by eye on the subject page-- but a lot of people seemed to like them.

Muting of threads was handy.