Better forum

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On Thursday, 6 December 2012 at 19:39:07 UTC, 
DypthroposTheImposter wrote:
>
>  It isn't the worst nor the best,
>
> I see many times where a thread gets split up -- eww
> can't edit anything -- eww
> At least I can view it as a forum not a mailing list - happy



Why can's a BBS be modified to integrate with the current forum?

After all, nntp and BBS's are basically databases with user 
interfaces. (nntp through it's protocol and BBS's through web 
browsers)

It seems that if D's forum works and is able to interface between 
web based nd nntp then it wouldn't be hard to integrate or modify 
a BBS to work with nntp. This way we get the best of both 
worlds(or everyone can be happy).

To me, this is the best option and it shouldn't be difficult to 
do.

e.g.,

When a person posts on the BB the message is sent to the nntp 
server just as it is done here. Should be very simple as the 
current forum already implements the code. (possibly just need to 
massage the data a little)

When a response is made from nntp then it must be determined 
where it fits. This is probably the difficult part but probably 
be pretty easy.