Re: [Slashcode-development] bulletin board input (Score: 5, Insightful)

[CertIndex.com W. <web...@ce...>]

well naming a comment a thread is just as confusing as naming an article a thread. it still collides
with the comment display mode 'threaded' i feel.

i'm sorta at a loss. while it isn't super important which terms we use, we're putting a lot of work
into this message board plugin and i'd like it to be good. proper / logical terminology helps
usability and that's good. if i dont' come up with naything better in the next couple days, i'll
just call them articles. maybe i'll prefix their uses with 'news' and 'message board' so you'd have
'news article' and 'message board article'.

*shrug* whatever. i won't hold back this project for lack of better terms. if people like it they'll
use it whether we have great terms or not i guess. :-)

regards.

ps: thanks all for your input

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ask Slashdot Guy" <cl...@sl...>
To: <sla...@li...>
Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2001 07:52
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] bulletin board input (Score: 5, Insightful)


> Again I make the mistake of offering suggestions pre-caffeine:
>
> "Forum"
>
> Users create forums for their issues while regular authors can post:
>
> "Stories"
>
> And comments to each can be called:
>
> "Threads"
>
> ..without much confusion.
>
>
> OK, off to get caffeine.
>
> - Cliff
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:10:50 -0700, CertIndex.com Webmaster said:
>
> >  how about 'message'?
> >
> >  i just renamed all of the instances and so on to 'Message Board' anyway, for i think it's a
> >  trifle more modern than the throwback to our dial-up gathering places of yore. =)
> >
> >  so you would post a message, then people would comment on the message.
> >
> >  (however we're making a plugin for bender to allow webmessaging (NOT web-based IM's) so it may
> >  conflict.)
> >
> >  *shrug*
> >
>
>
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