It's like SWMBO reararangeing the furniture. Now when you click on a thread the replys are not numbered. It can be confusing when in a long thread. Also they do not list the number of new authors vs number of replys. If enough of us complain do you think they will go back to the old style? Engineman
Probably not. They seem to have used the desktop real estate saved by deleting those to push their horrid little "rating" thing. Ick. FWIW, I've already sent in my complaint.
Might I inquire what you are discussing???
Interesting. Here I thought I screwed up some setting. I was just going to start looking on how to "fix" this. Sounds like I can't. FYI, I don't like the new look either. I miss the count of the new replies too. Mike
Might be Google groups...
Seems to me that rather than complaining to Google you'd just get a proper newsreader.
According to snipped-for-privacy@aol.com :
I presume that you are talking about how the newsgroups appear when you are using Google to view them, since you are posting through Google, but you should understand that they look different depending on the newsreader program being used to view them. In the case of Google, it is their own program, access through a web page, while for most other, it is a stand-alone newsreader program running on their own computer, and they can select from many different newsreaders. (Most Windows users seem to be be selecting either Outlook Express, or some web browser, instead of a stand-alone newsreader, but those who have known usenet for a long time usually pick some other program.
Why should *I* bother to complain? I don't *use* their services, so I have no idea what it looks like -- except that the last time I tried it, it was quite clumsy. For all I know, I might find the new format better.
Listing the number of authors hardly seems necessary to me, though my newsreader lists the number of unread articles per thread, and the names of the posters.
Remember -- Google is *not* usenet -- it is only one of many ways to access usenet, and far from the best in my opinion.
Enjoy, DoN.
According to Thomas Kendrick :
I think not. Both the original poster and the first response were posting through Google, so I presume that they've changed the appearance. And who else but Google users, these days, think that what they are using is the *only* way to read usenet newgroups -- if they even realize that it is usenet newsgroups that they are reading. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
So does any real newsreader. If your ISP doesn't have an NNTP server news.individual.net isn't all that expensive.
Not to mention the blockheads almost never bother to quote what they are replying to, leaving everyone else to wonder who on God's green earth they are replying to. A day doesn't go by that I don't consider adding a global google groups addition to my killfile.
On a related note, it seems Google has further eroded the original Deja News archive interface. Now when you do a usenet search, the results don't bother to mention the number of posts in the thread you are clicking on, often leading to numerous wasted clicks going to low count threads. This, of course, in addition to the udder bolloxing up of the interface they gave us a year and a half ago. Bastards.
Jon
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