Thanks for the discussion, Everyone!
I don't understand most of what you all said. But I can take away that it seems like a bad idea, from the programming perspective, to start with another kind of forum. But thanks for your comments anyway :-)
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:19 AM To: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...400...> Cc: "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...>; "Inkscape Devel List" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] website forum?
I'll bet as a first step, it could be something as simple as running list of comments by logged in users. No topics, categories, searching, or anything.
That appears to be more or less what our Web IRC drive-by's seem to want.
Bryce
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 11:34:58PM -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
Brynn,
We have a need of both python programmers /and/ systems administrators and I'd argue we have fewer of the latter than the former. So over all it's a more viable solution to build our own than it is to install a php or similar one. Plus it'd be a full duplication of user accounts and all the rest, so it'd be easier to use the existing inkscape forums out there until we had our own.
Martin,
On 23 May 2015 at 23:14, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
On Sat, May 23, 2015, at 07:40 PM, Liam White wrote:
I hope I don't come off as too aggressive, but site coders aren't magicians.
PHP is not Python etc and while there are existing forum applications already written in Django it'd be more ideal for us to work with the existing models we have on the website than to retrofit another forum app onto the site and pray that it works, then hassle to convert model storage when we need to tweak it.
(It's not even that hard to make a forum: you'd need a backing database and two controllers: a topic controller and a post controller, that pull all of the weight. Bonus points for using ElasticSearch to index it. Only hard thing is a suitable frontend.)
Problem I've seen is that most forums are poor interfaces to feature-shy reimplementations of newsgroups. Getting something useful and actually functional would be key. After a while things start to weigh a community down, like the 'oh no, I've accidentally closed a window now I'll have to spend an hour reading through that thread again to find my spot' classic forum fail, and others.
Simultaneous web and news reader interfaces are actually a viable solution... once the problem is properly understood.
-- Jon A. Cruz jon@...18...
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