OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] Topica Problems >> message boards

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Apr 23, 2005
• 442 views

Liquid-Nitrogen wrote:
> 
> I believe that the euphoria community would greatly benefit from a more
> versatile discussions
> fourm. One which has different sections relevant to different topics. This
> would also
> make it easier for people who come across the message boards to find something
> interesting
> to read, rather than just the last 3 days messages which are probably
> irrelevant to
> a lot of new users. Also a single file message board appears too formal, and
> doesnt
> realy allow for the kind of casual discussions which help build a comunity.
> 
> Please refer to the following web site for an example of the kind of forum i
> am talking
> about.
> <a href="http://forums.indiegamer.com/">http://forums.indiegamer.com/</a>
> 
> Its nice that the EUforum is done in eu and has syntax highlighting. but i
> think a
> more practical and organised approach with separate topic areas, and message
> threads
> would be more useful to a lot of euphoria users.
> as for people who want the messages emailed to them rather than browsing a web
> site,
> i dont know how that would work. but i dont realy see the point of having
> every single
> message emailed to you, since most people probably wouldnt read half of the
> messages
> anyway.
> 
> generaly i just feel that the Euforum is inadequate for the number of people
> who use
> euphoria, and the different types of programs they are producing.
> 
> I suggest the following topics for forums:
> 
> 
> New Users - Help
> News and Announcements
> General Discussions
> New Feature Suggestions
> FAQ Contributions
> 
> Algorithms
> Graphics and Sound
> Internet and Network Development
> API development
> Games Development
> 

I think that the EUforum interface is very good, and better than most. 
Especially since it now has word wrap.  ;^)

It is an order of magnitude better than Topica's web interface.  Or Digital Mars
D web interface.

But I do think that we need a better email system/interface.  An interesting
challenge would be to write a listserver in Euphoria, integrated with listfilter.
 I certainly wouldn't know where to begin though.

Then there is the question of bandwidth, of course.

I went to email because of the threading, so that is a valid concern.  I do try
to read all of the messages, though, unlike some other forums.

I notice that Digital Mars hosts its own news server, which I subscribe to. 
That would be another option.  Hmm.  A news server written in Euphoria.

Rob and Junko have done a lot of work for the community regarding the mailing
list and I hate to ask for more.  But for the archive I think the categories
should be revamped and make it so that you can click on an author's name and get
all of the submissions by that author.

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Too many freaks, not enough circuses.

j.