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Worker Joined: Jul 06, 2005 Posts: 172

Just wondering if anyone else would be interested in forums news capability that would replace the comments system with forums discussion.

1) new stories would be copied-to a dedicate news forum (or perhaps the option to use more than one forum depending on story topic)
2) news forum could be hidden by setting to private on forums permission, but will always be viewable via news article (since it is replacing comments)
3) right blocks on story/article would remain intact
4) if forum is not hidden, link to full forum discussion view available on story/article page

Advantage: unite comments with forums and unite news articles with forums (more appealing to active forums users). Allow users access to more familiar bbcode vs. html tags in comments.
Biggest advantage: drawing users into the forums

I realize this would be a monumental undertaking. Just curious if anyone else would be interested in the functionality. I'm just throwing ideas out there and letting people know what things interest me, and I realize you guys can't do everything Wink

Hopefully one or more of the suggestions will be useful sometime.

Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:07 pm

We are looking to separate the forums from the core part of the CMS so I'm sorry to say that I don't see this happening.

registered · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:28 pm

However, I have, for some time now, been wanting to create nukeCOMMENTS(tm) -- this is the first that I have seen this term used, therefore, I now "own" it trademark-wise -- that could be used across ALL of *nuke, any module, and essentially isolate the commenting features to one set of programs so that we can finally get some good consistency in the code AND have features that really matter to people.

I have ideas on how to get this done, even jQuery based ones, but still thinking about the best architecture/design.

registered · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:26 pm

montego wrote:

However, I have, for some time now, been wanting to create nukeCOMMENTS(tm) -- this is the first that I have seen this term used, therefore, I now "own" it trademark-wise -- that could be used across ALL of *nuke, any module, and essentially isolate the commenting features to one set of programs so that we can finally get some good consistency in the code AND have features that really matter to people.

I have ideas on how to get this done, even jQuery based ones, but still thinking about the best architecture/design.

I also wanted to do something like this. I even started writing a class that was universal and very easy to deploy. At least that is the end goal.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Sounds great, montego. I have no claims on that name Wink

Involved Joined: Sep 15, 2008 Posts: 352

montego,

This would be a great addition for sure!

Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 6:16 am

floppydrivez wrote:

I also wanted to do something like this. I even started writing a class that was universal and very easy to deploy. At least that is the end goal.

Well, if you're already doing it, then no point in me duplicating the effort. I won't have a change to get to it anyways for a couple of months, so I'll check back with you then and see where you are at?