[fpc-devel] Forum Integration

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 6 Jul 2006, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> I would like to propose merging the forums as the next initiative to
> bring Free Pascal and Lazarus closer.
> =

> Some questions on Lazarus forum acctually belong to free pascal, and I
> think that this would make both forums better. Perhaps we can find a
> way to copy the current free pascal messages to lazarus forum, or
> create a new forum and copy the messages of both to it.
> =

> The current Lazarus forum has some issues, like:
> =

> * lot=B4s of people can=B4t register (has this being solved yet?). We need
> to solve this in order to force people to register before posting,
> because there have being too many spam attacks.
> =

> * Bad organization of the topics. You will notice that forums such as
> Misc or General have a lot more posts then the others. This shows that
> the topics are badly organized.
> =

> But still I think it=B4s better then Free Pascal forum. It=B4s just too
> hard to find the latest posts (not only the 5 latest, but the latest
> on every section) on free pascal forum.

Merging the forums is technically one of the most difficult things, and it =

is also hard to satisfy everyone. For example, I am very glad the FPC =

forums do not support avatars and signatures, as in many forums there is a
race is who has the biggest avatar and signature.

I think it the situation is however not a matter of forum packages, but of =

web systems: phpNuke versus OpenACS. Of these OpenACS is certainly the =

stronger one, advantages include much more opportunities for layout =

customizations, Slashdot-proof performance, nice URLs, an advanced search =

engine, a powerfull translation mananager. Add to that the insecureness of
phpNuke and it becomes really unattractive.

I understand your complaint is that the messages are not sorted in time. =

While messages are shown, after the "new" period is over they are indeed =

moved to their category (allthough still sorted chronologically). IMHO =

this is actually one of the strongest points of these forums, it is much =

easier to find old content that interrests you.

Dani=EBl