298617 - rfe: Please add count of distinct users in a news group

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Artur Wystub]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Next to the name of a news group the count of unread messages is displayed.
Please display the count of different users too. This shows the user, how many
different persons are participating in the news group.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

your best bet would be to try to find someone to write an extension to do this.
I don't think we'd make it part of the core product.

Comment 2

[Artur Wystub]

(In reply to comment #1)
> your best bet would be to try to find someone to write an extension to do this.
> I don't think we'd make it part of the core product.
This is so easy, this should be in the core product. You must count unread
messages already. Why not count users too? Use a simple hashlist to add users
from every message. Existent users will be overwritten, then count the hashtable
entries and show the count after the count of unread messages. This should be
not a big problem but very usefull.

Comment 3

[Artur Wystub]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.8)
Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
> 
> Next to the name of a news group the count of unread messages is displayed.
> Please display the count of different users too. This shows the user, how many
> different persons are participating in the news group.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.
> 2.
> 3.

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > your best bet would be to try to find someone to write an extension to do this.
> > I don't think we'd make it part of the core product.
> This is so easy, this should be in the core product. You must count unread
> messages already. Why not count users too? Use a simple hashlist to add users
> from every message. Existent users will be overwritten, then count the hashtable
> entries and show the count after the count of unread messages. This should be
> not a big problem but very usefull.
> 

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > your best bet would be to try to find someone to write an extension to do this.
> > I don't think we'd make it part of the core product.
> This is so easy, this should be in the core product. You must count unread
> messages already. Why not count users too? Use a simple hashlist to add users
> from every message. Existent users will be overwritten, then count the hashtable
> entries and show the count after the count of unread messages. This should be
> not a big problem but very usefull.
> 

Another Idea: show the percentage of diversity of a news group in percents:
count of different users / total count of messages 
 100%. This shows the user the measure of how many different users use the news
group! It shows either the group is used by many different users (>50%) or it is
a group of a smal group of addicted users.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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