Re: Approach to atompub implementation for a forum

[Eric Scheid <eric.scheid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20/12/07 1:49 AM, "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxxxxx> wrote:

>>> But even a modest forum will quickly accumulate a few
>>> thousand threads, at which point a feed-per-thread scheme
>>> forces you to either deal with polling thousands of
>>> subscriptions
>> 
>> This assumes you automatically subscribe to all child
>> collections, but why would you do that?
> 
> To get the same functionality as you get in every web forum: no
> matter how old a thread, when someone replies to it, it bubbles
> to the top and you get a chance to see the new reply.

only if you actually go an open that topic thread to read it ... you don't
need to subscribe to the child collection of replies to be notified of a
change in the topic itself (assuming the metadata in the topic entry is
tweaked each time there's a reply, eg. updating a count of replies)

e.