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<node id="20173" title="Massive Newest Nodes Page" created="2000-06-28 14:54:48" updated="2005-08-10 16:52:33">
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monkdiscuss</type>
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swiftone</author>
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I'm not sure how easy this is to implement, but....&lt;p&gt;
I've noticed that when I get on after a weekend off the Newest Nodes page is heavily clogged.  (I can only imagine what happened with [ZZamboni], who just returned from a vacation).
&lt;br&gt;I could just clear the list, but I like to go through and read the threads for good messages to vote up and learn from.
So here's my thought:
&lt;p&gt;
Why not only list Notes/Replies to threads that are NOT listed as Newest Nodes?
&lt;p&gt; Of course, to be perfect it would have to know the ancestor node, which it probably doesn't, otherwise we'd have links to the thread-starting node.  But a simple Regexp should match most of situations.
&lt;code&gt;
/(Re:\s?|Re:\s?\(\s*\d+\s*\)\s?)+ (.*)/
&lt;/code&gt;
That's my 30 second version to match the name of the ancestor node in $2.  Doubtless a better one could be worked up with a little effort.
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