Re: Rails mailing list <-> web forum gateway

Michael
Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:51:09 -0000

Andreas,

BTW, I really, really like this!  :-)  In my opinion, this is something that was
needed by the community - and it better than me scanning through my inbox all
the time!

If you added a few things, this would be killer.  Do you mind my input?  I hope
not!

Users:  Select a user.  Put an option there to see all posts by that user!
Maybe also put profile info, like how long they have been a member, total posts,
etc...

Search:  Allow search by forum instead of complete search.

If I''m a registered user AND I am logged in, show me a list of posts
that are new since my last login.

On the main page, show the most recent 10 items from each forum that have been
updated/created.

On the main page, show the most popular (i.e. most viewed, most replies, etc..)

Then, host this thing somewhere solid and have a direct link from the ROR
documentation/community site.

As a bonus - if we had categories for the posts then all the better!  i.e.
Engines, Components, ActiveRecord, etc...  Perhaps this isn''t possible
(w/o admin overhead) from the main mailing list, but I can only imagine that a
forum like this would become quite popular and people making posts directly on
the forum would have the option of putting them in the right category/sub forum.

Excellent work!

Michael


andreas-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org wrote:
Hi all,

I have set up a web forum â†” mailing list gateway for the Rails mailing
list:

http://rforum-demo.andreas-s.net/

It''s still experimental, but seems to work well so far. New mails from
the list are imported every 5 minutes, posts created in the forum are
sent to the list immediately.

To make sure that your posts make it to the mailing list, please create
an account before posting.

Andreas

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Posted via http://rforum-demo.andreas-s.net/.
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