TDPL a bad idea?

[Lutger]

On 02/03/2010 02:42 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Yigal Chripun wrote:
>>> I've thought about building such a system for these forums many times.
>>> Registration would not be required to post, but registering would enable
>>> features like voting on posts, establishing a profile, preferences, etc.
>>
>> That sounds awesome. Another useful feature would be storing session
>> info in the profile such that if I read a post at work the post will
>> be marked as such when I use a different computer/news-reader like my
>> home PC.
>
> Yup. What I hate about reddit/slashdot/ycombinator is there's no way to
> mark ones I've read as read. On a long thread, it's really hard to see
> if there's anything new.
>
>
>> wouldn't it be easier to just use web forums (there are many existing
>> system with all the bells and whistles) and write a news-gateway for
>> it than to implement all the features for the current news-server?
>> it'll also fix the currently broken web interface for the NG.
>
> They all suck. Sorry.
>
> Most use far too much vertical space, spreading the thread out over
> multiple pages, or don't indent a threaded view. And *none* of them have
> the ability to mark what you've read.

I know that at least vBulletin and phpBB can do mark-as-read, it's just 
that not everybody uses it. Most of the more 'advanced' forum software 
like this however, is stacked with community features and geared towards 
markup heavy posting. They would require extensive hacking to adapt to a 
more efficient system.

vBulletin also has a (sucky) threaded view btw.