enhancing forum features: 1click upvote, sorting, 1click duplicate etc (eg: userecho use case)

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:44:36 +0900
Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/28/2012 2:53 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 
> > Is it built on top of NNTP? If not, then it's a no-go right off the
> > bat. forum.dlang.org isn't really a forum in the normal sense. It's
> > merely a web interface for a newsgroup, and many of us access it
> > either through newsreaders or as a mailing list and never use the
> > web interface at all.
> >
> 
> This is why I've never liked the 'forum' moniker being used here. 
> Regardless of what it means in the real world, the word means a very 
> specific thing in web parlance. And I'm sure that many newcomers
> aren't going to realize that the web interface actually is a web
> interface to an NNTP server. That inevitably is going to lead to
> comparisons with existing web forum packages, which really aren't
> relevant. Of course, it's possible to implement such features on top
> of what already exists, but given that those sort of things can't
> propagate to the NG or the mailing list interface, it's rather
> pointless.
> 
> I would have been happier to see a real forum in the first place (way 
> back when). For several years now, the D newsgroups have been the
> only reason I keep a newsgroup client installed. But we really
> shouldn't be calling the web interface a forum, because in internet
> terms it really isn't.

I see it as being the same thing, the only real key difference is
whether the backend happens to be through SQL or NNTP, and that's just
an implementation detail.