drewp for 2007 February 11 (entry 0)

[link] 2007-02-11T14:18:11 Visited-link hack proposal for revyu.com:

http://revyu.com gathers people's reviews of anything on the web. The web is so big that you don't even think of lots of things that you could review and would be happy to review. So what happens is that when you come to http://revyu.com, you notice the list of recent reviews, realize that you are familiar with some of them, so you pile on a few more reviews of your own.

That mechanism for capturing more reviews won't scale very well if revyu.com becomes a lot more popular. Every time I visit, there could be a huge number of new reviews. I might like to look through them to see what I can offer, but I don't have time to scan the list of 80 new links.

This nearly-useless css hack can help. It measures the colors that your browser applies to visited/non-visited links to separate a known set of links into the ones you've seen and (probably) haven't seen. That's just what I want on revyu.com-- a list of the recently-reviewed URLs that I have also seen. It's fine to show all the recent reviews too, just for interest, but I'm much less likely to have a pile-on review for those.

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