Re: [Slashcode-development] Thoughts on persistent storie capability.

[Chris N. <pu...@po...>]

At 01:59 -0800 01.24.2001, CertIndex.com Webmaster wrote:
>Persistent stories: Stories that are meant to be continuously used for
>discussion regarding one or more issues/subjects/blah that do not 'time
>out/die' like typical 'news' type stories that are tied to chronology. The
>example I gave was on a web design site, a story could be created for 'HTML
>Help'. Since on a site like this that kind of story would always be
>beneficial and isn't tied to anything chronological (like news stories.) it
>would be nice to have this always 'stick around'. It's pretty much the only
>real feature BB's like UBB and Phorum have over Slash and I see it
>constantly requested.
>
>So that I don't have to preface any conversation regarding this with that
>'definition' does anyone have a better suggestion for this kind of story
>than persistent story? Otherwise I'll refer to it as that from now on with
>no preface.

The only thing I don't see is how Slash (bender, esp.) does not have this
now.  I mean, I see how some things would need to change to make this
feature of Slash _better_ (as you stated in the rest of the post, about
moderation, pruning comments, etc.), but it is there and it works, as far
as I can tell.

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