[Slashcode-development] Re: Topics

[Rob 'C. M. <ma...@sl...>]

>  * This still has to be fast

This is the reason I never implemented it.  I decided that the
performance hit of having to do an extra lookup was just not
worth it.  I can be done reasonably fast (like storing the first one
in the stories table to save the lookup) but it just was never worth
the work (for slashdot anyway.	For newsforge or whatever, that
may be different).

Sectionally specific topics however please me greatly.

The second issue is that of user interface.    One long list is a pain
in the ass, but when you start needing to select multiple topics, it
gets even harder.  Probably its not that difficult: if you and have the
topic defined, and additional dropdown list can appear and a topic can
be selected.  This is a little clunky, but relatively unobtrusive since the
bulk of stories will only have 1 or 2 topics anyway.

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