Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Comment View

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 2 May 2005, at 19:29, Don Seiler wrote:

> On 14:14 Mon 02 May     , Matthew McNaney wrote:
>
>> phpBB uses flat and it's kinda popular ;-) Am I thinking of just
>> sticking with flat and offering filtering on time frame, user, and  
>> other
>> stuff you guys can think of.
>>
>> Anyway, I wanted to check with the devs before taking this mindset  
>> 100%
>> (I'm at 98% so far).
>>
>
> Flat is fine with me, and that is all that really matters.

I'd agree. I've ran forums with flat and threaded views before and  
almost everyone switches to flat when they get busy. Threaded falls  
apart after more than a dozen posts IME. And no-one other than  
SlashDot geeks or Kuro5hin regulars understand mod points or karma  
modifiers. I'd leave them out for now also.

Since Don commented, I'm reminded that I think we should really merge  
in both the comments and the forum system or be able to use the  
comments module as the basis of a forum.

It's always struck me as a bit odd that there's a division between  
them. The only problem there might be that some people like the phpBB  
style flat view of a forum with all the extra bells and whistles. Can  
we allow different templates for comments depending on which parent  
module is using it?

Shaun
aegis design - http://www.aegisdesign.co.uk