OpenEuphoria

Re: Web Forum Topics

• Posted by irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Jun 13, 2004
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Dave Probert wrote:
> 
> I second this request.  
> 
> In the good old days of modem based BBS's most everything showed as big long
> lists,
> but we're now in a better time that used a more object-oriented approach to
> things.
>  That includes forums.
> 
> Personally I see no reason to show an unprofessional mish-mash list of topics
> and then
> have the viewer go seeking out where the previous or next replies are.

It would seem easy enough to have an index page which showed all the 
unique Subject: lines, then clicking on one of those subjects would lead 
to a page like the one we now have, but which was filtered to show only 
that particular topic. Good demo of EDB, eh?

Of course, that would require us (the users) to be more careful to 
post on-topic or to change the topic when appropriate. But it would 
also make the forum more useful, since several days worth of 
postings on a given topic would be visible. More likely to find 
an appropriate answer that way. 

Irv