http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2010/07/wikileaks-to-leak-5000-open-source-java.html
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who coined the term "Opened Source" to describe the jailbroken open-source Java code, fears he may be arrested by campus security at Oracle or possibly IBM. The Wikileaks founder said: "Today the Eclipse Foundation put out a private briefing calling me a 'non-thread-safe AbstractKeywordRemovalInitiatorFactory'.
I don't know about others, but this is how I troll browse /prog/:
- Load front page.
- Skim threads, load interesting looking ones in tabs
- Close front page.
- Reload threads occasionally (maybe a couple times a day?)
- Trim ones that haven't had activity in a while, or ones where the topic got boring
- When running low on threads, goto step 1
Usually I end up with about 8 threads at a time this way. Sometimes conversations will exist for a good amount of time beyond when the thread has left the front page; these are the best threads because the people are actually interested in the core topic, and the possibility of someone hijacking the topic or threadshitting is much lower.
Note that any useful browser is entirely capable of remembering which threads you have open if you have to close it for some absurd reason. I haven't closed my web browser for weeks, and that was to reboot for a kernel upgrade. I pretty much have a separate desktop dedicated to looking at textboards.
I have thought about the possibility of a board with no visible thread list or front page. Instead, it could be built with a system like (e.g.) last.fm where each thread is prefixed with a set of links to "similar" threads, determined by the number of unique participants in both. Maybe it could be weighted in favor of those who have posted more than once, in an attempt to eliminate garbage posts from people looking at a thread and then not actually reading it afterward.
Although I have a suspicion that such a scheme would inevitably deteriorate into WEB TWO POINT OH garbage, if properly set up, it could actually be worthwhile.