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+ Agora
Agora is Horde's forum module, providing comments on user submitted content in e.g. ((Project/Ansel|Ansel)) or ((Project/Jonah|Jonah)).
++ Bugs
List any tickets on http://bugs.horde.org/ that cover this issue or are relevant to it.
++ People
* Stephan (webmaster <ät> dasourcerer <döt> net)
* Almost certainly others
++ Features
* Structure
> Introduce categories for boards as an additional means organization. For larger installations, boards alone might be insufficient.
<code>
Categories
+ Boards
+ Threads
+ Thread pages
+ Posts
+ Attached files
</code>
* Pretty URLs
> Apart from being just "pretty", URLs should express is-a, has-a or subset relations. Examples:
<code>
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 ----------´---´
</code>
> 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:
||~ 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 [http://www.habariproject.org Habari Project] has got a system that might be a good start for this.
+++ BBCode
An advanced BBCode parser has been proposed a [http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7285 long time ago]. Since then, a better one has been in the making. Features include:
* Inspect links regarding availability. Examples:
<code>
www.example.com
</code>
> or
<code>
[url]http://www.example.com[/url]
</code>
> would be rendered as
<code>
<a href="http://www.example.com" title="Example Site" type="text/html" target="_blank">http://www.example.com</a>
</code>
> Unreachable links would be marked with ''rel="nofollow"'', so there won't be an impact on search engine rating:
<code>
<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.example.com</a>
</code>
> Additionally, CSS selectors could be used to give users an immediate feedback on broken links.
* Inspect embedded images
> Check if:
> * 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
<code>
[img]http://www.example.com/example.png[/img]
</code>
> would be rendered as
<code>
<img src="http://www.example.com/example.png" alt="http://www.example.com/example.png" title="example.png (65536 bytes)" width="640" height="480" />
</code>
* Enhanced quotes
> 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 [http://microformats.org/wiki/cite-rel cite-rel microformat] in the rendered output. Example:
<code>
[quote=http://www.horde.org]
Welcome to the home of the Horde Project.
[/quote]
</code>
> Will be rendered as:
<code>
<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>
</code>
> Using a post id will in addition show the username of the original poster
+++ Features touching other modules
* ((Project/Ansel|Ansel)) could be utilized to provide (more or less) one-click-hosting out of Agora, offering a convenient method to publish images within posts.
* ((Project/Scry|Scry)). Create polls via API calls and tie them into Agora in an 1:1 relation (meaning there will be at most one poll per thread)
* ((Project/Trean|Trean)). Keeping track of larger forums is hard. Allow users to bookmark threads via Trean. Preserve Agora's logical structure (categories, boards) when displaying them. Bonus: Provide an Atom/RSS feed for bookmarked threads only.
* ((Project/Folks|Folks)). Link usernames to profiles in Folks accordingly.
* Possibly provide comments functionality for ((Project/Whups|Whups)) and ((Project/Wicked|Wicked))
++ Code
* H3: http://cvs.horde.org/agora
* H4: http://git.horde.org/browse/agora/browsedir.php?f=agora%2F&onb=master
++ Resources
* [http://dev.horde.org/api/agora/ API Documentation]
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