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Meta: A new kind of forum leveraging Web 2.0 technologies

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A new forum which seems to use a lot of new ideas and technology e.g. remote scripting (aka "Ajax" - but I don't like that term): http://www.blursoft.com/meta/ Did anyone check it out?
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  • 413x413x
    Posts: 29

    HAHA!

    the /me bug in plain text comments is still present. here is my fix: /me misbehaviour!

    and here is the url again: META - a new kind of forum

  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    The LiveThreads system is pretty neat but I hate that animation thing so very much. Why can't it just have an appear animation instead of actually physically running from the bottom of the forums to the top? Idiotic. NRi Moderation is prettymuch the stupidest thing I have ever heard, there has got to be a loophole there somewhere, like a spammer who has 2000 posts has more influence than someone who has started and contributed actual knowledge to the forum discussions but has only 200 posts. And I'm not sure about the tagging thing, it seems to be pretty intelligent and actually the only neat feature in the forum, but that is actually prettymuch the same what Vanilla has, everything regardless of category shows on one single page, but with the upside of actually having categories if you want to follow only one category.
  • nathannathan
    Posts: 893
    I like the functionality, but it doesn't look that nice. A good style sheet would fix that though.
  • timberfordtimberford
    Posts: 276
    the 'click quoting' is very nice and i think something like that would be so good for vanilla.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    the 'click quoting' is very nice and i think something like that would be so good for vanilla.

    I agree, but then again, anykind of quoting would be good.
  • timberfordtimberford
    Posts: 276
    yeah totally agree.
  • ChrisGwynneChrisGwynne
    Posts: 226
    It's okay, but the visual side is extremely disappointing. It looks "tacky" at the moment. Hopefully someone will come along and help the folk out.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    That thing is fugly. Slower than Vanilla too. Didn't like the text mouseover thing. I hate that crap. If I want to read it, I'll click on it. Thats about as far into as I got before I left.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    It certainly has a lot of interesting features. The quoting and edit-in-place stuff is cool but has been discussed here previously with possible implementation in mind. I quite like how it gives the first post of the discussion as a mouseover but that'd get a little pointless once you'd seen the thread once. I'd certainly prefer to use that than the likes of phpBB from a 1minute glancepoint. Give it chance.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    I just hate popups of anykind, especially mouseover popups. I find them irritating when I am moving my mouse all over the screen like im having a seizure.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    especially mouseover popups

    Second that WITH A VENGEANCE!
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper
    Posts: 5,574
    i dont tend to move my mouse much unless i'm browsing with it. Perhaps there should just be a slight delay. Shrug.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Shrug WITH A VENGEANCE!
  • ADMADM
    Posts: 450
    Man I hate seeing this at the bottom of every post: Moderations: scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) scott: +0.1762 (??) I mean at least have a button saying "click to view moderations (total moderations X)".
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    Posts: 439
    Yeah, it has some good ideas, but a lot of it is just silly. The community reminds me of Vanilla, though, somewhat.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    looks kind of like your average php nuke forum, I don't see what's so special about it.
  • lechlech
    Posts: 3,235
    and please stop using the phrase "web 2.0", it just sounds so idiotic.
  • KrakKrak
    Posts: 926
    Yes, its totally a gimmick. I swear I have heard (ok, read) "web 2.0" like 80 times in the past two days.
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I like the Web 2.0 technology thing that's actually just a mish-mash of already existing stuff.

    This is the wrong way to start a "new" technology. That's a whole different thread/discussion though.
  • BergamotBergamot
    Posts: 1,876
    Web 2.0? Psh; that's so outdated.I write all my code in Web 5.0.

    It's exactly the same as Web 2.0, but we dress as pirates.
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    I'm sold on Web 5.0.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Fuck that, I always tought that they made better games before and the information on Usenet and BBS cans were so much better than the shit of todays internet, I'm going to go back to basics and start a Web 0.129 beta consortium.
  • timberfordtimberford
    Posts: 276
    funny i was only thinking how irritating the phrase web 2.0 was this morning!

    another thing getting on my nerves is how nearly everything is released with beta slapped all over it like it's some kind branding.
  • KosmoKosmo
    Posts: 1,135
    Beta is one step better than Alpha so people have confidence in it, but it gives the developer the freedom to fuck things up and if something goes wrong you can just say "hey it's a beta baby."
  • gigingergiginger
    Posts: 1,010
    Which is exactly what google do. Most of their products seem to be in permanent beta.
  • shad0w913shad0w913
    Posts: 31
    Tagging is awesome. A tagging extention could probably be written for Vanilla. For example, you could have a list of the top tags in the sidebar, and clicking on them would bring you up all the topics tagged, maybe, "windows." Now, figuring out how to add the tags themselves would be a whole other beast to tackle.
  • LouisLouis
    Posts: 88
    To me, coming from SMF or PunBB or Invision, where categories mean two clicks to view any thread, something like Vanilla or "Meta" is a breath of fresh air. I was already planning stuff similar to this last year, with PunBB, but never got far enough in my modifications before I gave up - too much to change. Vanilla has promise, but it won't take off until people can convert to it in one click, and have quoting, and a page explaining whispers to people who have an email/PM background. And there are way too many options - and too few. As an administrator, it seems you can't configure the default options for all accounts without editing php code. And stuff like "format comments as ..." or "whisper your comments to" seems a little redundant. (Whisper should come after the comment box, because even if you want to whisper it to someone, you should already know what you want to say and type it out before you enter the name of the person to whisper to) The tabs at the top are useless too. Make a "Change My Account" link on the top, near Signed in as ... Signout, put a search box on every page, and move the categories to the sidebar. There, no more need for tabs. That's what I plan on doing for my installation of Vanilla, at least. Seems much more intuitive. Other small changes like that and this forum could be perfect. I wonder if I can make some or all of these changes in a theme, or if I'd need to modify more of the PHP ...
  • NickENickE
    Posts: 921
    The tabs at the top are useless too. Make a "Change My Account" link on the top, near Signed in as ... Signout, put a search box on every page, and move the categories to the sidebar. There, no more need for tabs. That's what I plan on doing for my installation of Vanilla, at least. Seems much more intuitive. Other small changes like that and this forum could be perfect. I wonder if I can make some or all of these changes in a theme, or if I'd need to modify more of the PHP ...
    I was, um, bored again, so does this extension do what you were thinking of?

    But yeah, you'd need to edit the PHP files or, preferrably, make an extension to do that.
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    Posts: 439
    The tabs make important links really stand out. And I think they give Vanilla something unique.
  • shad0w913shad0w913
    Posts: 31
    I also like the tabs. Every browser is adding tabs these days anyway. Makes sense to me.
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