Permalinks and multiple feeds at Gmane

It's nice to see that the blog thing of Gmane advances... I have caught some testimonials over there like this one

Now finnally there is a permalink feature, and there are multiple feeds that point towards the blog interfaces... Here's the look of a permalinked message of mine. The feeds remain experimental so far, but can be found at the directory version of each group as in dir.gmane.org/gmane.discuss That's fine, and I find it quite logic. RSS-subscribers are probably more prone to bloglike interfaces than to the other one.

On the other hand I feel that there should be a way to switch between the two single-message interfaces, the classic and the blog-like:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/7459  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/7459 

as well as between the threaded interfaces. Looking at a thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/6733 you change the interface in the pulldown menu, and you dont go to http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.discuss/6733 but to blog.gmane.org/gmane.discuss

Design competition

On the other hand, the design competition that Lars the Gmanemaster proposed seems to have attracted no designers at all.

I am not a designer. I cannot dare to offer a CSS proposal of my own... Here's my contribution, instead, the Gmane blog buttons: Gmane rocks! Gmane blogs!

Well. Not so difficult to achieve. I just used Luca's brilliant button maker ;-)

i18n

Now that RSS's and blogalization have advanced so far, I wish Gmane could return to the i18n steps taken last autumn. The Classic Interface begun beind adapted very nicely. I don't know if Lars' to-do list is very long, but it would be great to see Gmane advance in that direction too.