D marketplace

[Stanley Steel]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Stanley Steel wrote:
> > I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent
> > portfolio.  So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web
> > development and design as that is where my interest and experience
> > lies.  Hence, the suggestion to do something other than a newsgroup
> > topic.
> 
> I've been interested in a long time in writing a D cgi application that 
> runs on the server and enables a reddit-like view of the n.g. postings, 
> as well as the usual n.g. nntp interface.
> 
> The current archiving stuff 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/index.html
> is a step in that direction, but it is not interactive and doesn't allow 
> posting.
> 
> People would have two possible ways to interact with the n.g. - through 
> the standard NNTP interface using a normal newsreader, or the 
> reddit-style interactive web view. The latter would also allow logged in 
> users to vote + or -, have avatars, etc.

Just out of curiosity, do you or could you have a database running or would you want to use flat files for data storage?