Re: [WebDNA] Poll: Discussion Forum
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2009
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 103105
interpreted = N
texte = Hello Patrick, A couple of years ago I started working on one as part of completely re-writing the site it would have been used on. The one big suggestion I have would be to make it in a modular fashion so that the forum could be a "plug-in" to an existing site by just syncing the user variables. Also design it so that it would be relatively easy to add additional modules to it. That would make it more extensible. Others could write add-ons to the base forum and either release the as free or as a paid add-on. Dale Patrick McCormick wrote: > I'm curious to know how many of you have built a discussion forum. > > I'm trying to get a picture of the amount of effort we may all be > duplicating and I'm looking for ideas to allow us all to work more > efficiently. > > If we were all contributing to an open-source discussion forum, it > would certainly save us all time and produce a better final result. It > would also be great wor WebDNA because it would allow us to compete > better with PHP. New users would be able to get a forum site up and > running in WebDNA just like they can with PHP. > > In fact, if we were to produce ours to take advantage of things like > jQuery's ThemeRoller, we would have some distinct advantages over PHP > versions because some of that code is fairly old. > > The problem is that some programmers have put years of work into their > forums. It would be asking a lot to simply hand that work over. > > Can we start a new discussion forum from scratch, using SubVersion > control, which all programmers can contribute to? > > Can we find a way to fairly compensate whoever has some good starting > code to get us down the road further? > > How important is a discussion forum to each of you? > > Pat
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Hello Patrick, A couple of years ago I started working on one as part of completely re-writing the site it would have been used on. The one big suggestion I have would be to make it in a modular fashion so that the forum could be a "plug-in" to an existing site by just syncing the user variables. Also design it so that it would be relatively easy to add additional modules to it. That would make it more extensible. Others could write add-ons to the base forum and either release the as free or as a paid add-on. Dale Patrick McCormick wrote: > I'm curious to know how many of you have built a discussion forum. > > I'm trying to get a picture of the amount of effort we may all be > duplicating and I'm looking for ideas to allow us all to work more > efficiently. > > If we were all contributing to an open-source discussion forum, it > would certainly save us all time and produce a better final result. It > would also be great wor WebDNA because it would allow us to compete > better with PHP. New users would be able to get a forum site up and > running in WebDNA just like they can with PHP. > > In fact, if we were to produce ours to take advantage of things like > jQuery's ThemeRoller, we would have some distinct advantages over PHP > versions because some of that code is fairly old. > > The problem is that some programmers have put years of work into their > forums. It would be asking a lot to simply hand that work over. > > Can we start a new discussion forum from scratch, using SubVersion > control, which all programmers can contribute to? > > Can we find a way to fairly compensate whoever has some good starting > code to get us down the road further? > > How important is a discussion forum to each of you? > > Pat
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