jobserve has a crap ui...

[ewx]

...so I've fed the bit I'm interested in into a local newsgroup. News seems to be a good model for all sorts of things; while at Zeus I turned the perforce change lists into newsgroups, and I'm still convinced that news would be a good base to build something like livejournal on. (And of course it's the one true way to read mailing lists, though whether it's a news server or news reader that makes them look like news I'm agnostic about.) Perhaps we ought to have flexible personal news servers on every PC.

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[simonb.livejournal.com]

Yep; whilst the flat API is reasonably nice if you want to deal with just journal entries, it falls over when dealing with comments. I get the feeling that comments were bolted onto the system at a later date and the flat API wasn't brought into line with the database stuff.