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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Mon

Oct 8
2007

22:50Z

Forum not-front pages

Right now, the individual category pages are kind of so-so.

http://forum.phoenyx.net/category/discussion

Flip over to the dev version.

Now, what you see there in the descriptions are the wiki pages for those groups. GAMERS and E-Space have pretty vanilla pages (just a rerun of their long descriptions, really), and Fudge has some markup.

If there's no wiki page, it falls back to the long description (which isn't always terribly long). You see more of that here:

http://forum.phoenyx.net/category/games

Of the games, Kalyr has a wiki page, none of the rest do. Kalyr's might be a little long...

The hierarchy is category->group->topic. Gavilan, right now, is the only group that has multiple topics, so you'll notice that really the category page has promoted the main topic (which don't have to be named "main," but they all are) for each group, so that we get down to the content level more quickly.

Groups are *sort of* the old mailing lists (if you say "join+gavilan" you get both topics), but to a certain extent so are topics. If you join on the web, the subscribe lines are separate (don't go to the subscribe pages in dev, it won't make *any* sense right now), because really each topic is a mailing list unto itself. If you send mail to gavilan@, it assumes +main.

MikeF
Mike Feldhusen

Mon

Oct 8
2007

23:04Z

Forum not-front pages

First impression, they look good, I like the dev. ones more than the current forum. ones.

KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Tue

Oct 9
2007

01:00Z

Forum not-front pages

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Mike Feldhusen wrote:

First impression, they look good, I like the dev. ones more than the current forum. ones.

Good, because I'd be really sad if I was making backwards progress. :}

I've never been happy with the webforum-clone stuff. I mean, I *can* go the rest of the way and make it work exactly like one (and maybe *will* build a client that does), but other than baby-duck syndrome (which shouldn't entirely be discounted, I guess) I can't see the advantage to

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