Re: Related Links

[Robert Myers <ccrider@whiterose.net>]

On Sat, 22 May 1999, Micah Yoder wrote:

> Robert Myers wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I am currently working on that portion of the page.
> > 
> > I have not really done anything with it.
> 
> I was actually trying a bit to fix it.  I'll get out of it though.  :-)
> 

	That is what CVS is for. :)  Fix it if you want.

> > Jason and I were talking about it a bit, we thought that displaying the
> > first 5 (or whatever number) of related articles with a link to a page
> > that has more with more in detph info as well would be good.
> 
> Maybe, but is there a real disadvantage to displaying all of them?  If
> they hit a "related links" page, it will hit the DB with the same query
> all over again.  The query you have on the article page will already
> fetch all the related links.  The only additional resource you'd be
> using by showing them all is more bandwidth, which is negligible unless
> it has like over 50 links.
> 

	I think the point was that if there were more than say 10 or so
links that were related, it could make the page look a bit odd.  If there
are never any more than 10, it will really never be an issue.  It really
does not matter to me, the asthetics and all, we could do it either way.

-Bob 
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