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http://example.com/horde/agora/main/testboard/testthread/page/3#post-9365
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http://example.com/horde/agora/main/testboard/testthread/9365/edit
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http://example.com/horde/agora/recent/page/3
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* Strip trailing or leading whitespaces
* Transform all letters into lower case
* Translate all letters not within a-z into their phonetic equivalents. Examples:
| Original Letter | ä | ß | ø | ð |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equivalent | ae | ss | oe | th |
* 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.) - Statistics People *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:
>>* Total number of threads
>>* Total number of posts
>>* Average number of posts per thread (bonus: Use this to determine "hot threads" instead of a fixed value)
>>* Average number of posts per day and per hour (seems to be bogus, but people like it. And it is cheap to generate: Take the first and devide by 24)
* Overview over the number of posts on each of the last n days
Possibly provide all of these via blocks as well. - Syndication 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) - Moderation 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. - Linkback Enable threads to accept ping- and trackbacks. In addition, catch refbacks. - Plugin Infrastructure 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. BBCode An advanced BBCode parser has been proposed a long time ago. Since then, a better one has been in the making. Features include: - Inspect links regarding availability. Examples:
www.example.com
[url]http://www.example.com[/url]
http://www.example.com
http://www.example.com
* 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.
As an example
[img]http://www.example.com/example.png[/img]
[quote=http://www.horde.org]
Welcome to the home of the Horde Project.
[/quote]
Quote The Horde Project:
Welcome to the home of the Horde Project.