To all people writing BBS on Rails: let's join forces

[Andreas Schwarz]

Justin Rudd ha scritto:



at this point, if the author agrees, I think that it could be better to
provide some basic architecture to plug our own formatter

This will of course be possible.

 

[Alexey Verkhovsky]

I've noticed lately that there are at least four different projects
starting to build Bulletin Board System (a forum) on Rails.

Why couldn't we build one BBS, four times bigger and better instead?
... skipping the rest ...

As a result of this proclamation, we managed to merge three BBS projects
in one: one by Andreas Schwartz, Kevin 'radsaq' Radloff, and yours
truly. The project will be known as RForum (for the want of a better
name), and its home page is http://rforum.andreas-s.net/trac.

Andreas' code was taken as a baseline (it looked closer to production
grade). Presently, I am busy merging some of ex-RubyForum features into
it.

One thing agreed by all is that it is NOT going to be a phpBB clone.
I.e., no bbCode, smilies and avatars

I would like to repeat my call again: if you are writing a Rails BBS,
please join with us. Let's write one _really_ good one instead.

Best regards,
Alexey Verkhovsky