Agora is Horde's forum module, providing comments on user submitted content in e.g. Ansel or Jonah.
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Introduce categories for boards as an additional means organization. For larger installations, boards alone might be insufficient.
Categories + Boards + Threads + Thread pages + Posts + Attached files
Apart from being just "pretty", URLs should express is-a, has-a or subset relations. Examples:
http://example.com/horde/agora/main/testboard/testthread/page/3#post-9365 Category titled "Main" --´ | | | | | Board titled "Testboard" -------´ | | | | Thread titled "Testthread" -----------------´ | | | Show page 3 of the thread ----------------------------´---´ | Jump directly to post #9365 ----------------------------------´ http://example.com/horde/agora/main/testboard/testthread/9365/edit Category titled "Main" --´ | | | | Board titled "Testboard" -------´ | | | Thread titled "Testthread" -----------------´ | | Post with the id 9365 ----------------------------´ | (there is little sense in naming individual posts) | Action: Edit post #9365 ---------------------------------´ http://example.com/horde/agora/recent/page/3 List threads that got ----´ | | recent replies | | Show page three ----------´---´
||~ Original Letter || ä || ß || ø || ð ||In order to create a named URL part, the following operations should be performed:
- Strip trailing or leading whitespaces
- Transform all letters into lower case
- Translate all letters not within a-z into their phonetic equivalents. Examples:
Equivalent | ae | ss | oe | th |
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* Turn everything except a-z and 0-9 into a dash ("-")
- Merge multiple dashes into one
- In case of a collision: Append a dash followed by the number of colliding strings + 1 (should result into "foobar", "foobar-2", "foobar-3", etc.)
>>* Total number of threadsPeople *love* statistics. Providing them also seems to encourage user participation. In particular, provide a publicly available stats page featuring:
- Top n most active users (by post count)
- Top n most popular boards (by post count or by views)
- Top n most popular threads (by post count or by views)
- Last n threads (possibly drop this in favour of /recent)
- Generic stats like:
* Overview over the number of posts on each of the last n days
Possibly provide all of these via blocks as well.
Provide RSS and Atom feeds (c.f. Project/FeedEverything). In particular:
- Feed solely for threads (e.g. newly created threads will be announced in here, showing the content of the very first post in the feed entry.)
- Full content feed (All new posts go in here)
- Both again for specific boards (this is excellent for larger installations with high traffic)
Currently, there can be only one moderator per board. Add an extra table to allow for an n:n boards-to-moderators relation.
Also: Allow moderators to perform reversive actions in boards not assigned to them, tying them closer to their assigned boards.
Enable threads to accept ping- and trackbacks. In addition, catch refbacks.
Forums are often subjects to heavy modifications in an effort to appease users. A powerful plugin infrastructure might help to keep the installed software maintainable while allowing the desired modifications. The Habari Project has got a system that might be a good start for this.
An advanced BBCode parser has been proposed a long time ago. Since then, a better one has been in the making. Features include:
www.example.com
or
[url]http://www.example.com[/url]
would be rendered as
<a href="http://www.example.com" title="Example Site" type="text/html" target="_blank">http://www.example.com</a>
Unreachable links would be marked with rel="nofollow", so there won't be an impact on search engine rating:
<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.example.com</a>
Additionally, CSS selectors could be used to give users an immediate feedback on broken links.
Check if:As an example
- an [img] tag is pointing to a reachable destination
- if the destination is actually an image (the rise of one-click-image-hosters seems to entice users to c&p the URLs of result pages rather than the URLs of the actual images)
- Eventually, retrieve the image dimensions.
[img]http://www.example.com/example.png[/img]
would be rendered as
<img src="http://www.example.com/example.png" alt="http://www.example.com/example.png" title="example.png (65536 bytes)" width="640" height="480" />
The [quote] tag has got an optional parameter that can hold three different kinds of values: A quoted string, the id of a post or an URL. The last two will be using the cite-rel microformat in the rendered output. Example:
[quote=http://www.horde.org] Welcome to the home of the Horde Project. [/quote]
Will be rendered as:
<div class="quote"> Quote <cite class="via" id="cite-ef58e3aa-af7f-45ba-a17d-5192ffe883b7"><a href="http://www.horde.org" type="text/html" target="_blank">The Horde Project</a></cite>: <blockquote cite="#cite-ef58e3aa-af7f-45ba-a17d-5192ffe883b7"> Welcome to the home of the Horde Project. </blockquote> </div>
Using a post id will in addition show the username of the original poster
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