Walter Bright Wrote: > Stanley Steel wrote: > > I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent > > portfolio. So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web > > development and design as that is where my interest and experience > > lies. Hence, the suggestion to do something other than a newsgroup > > topic. > > I've been interested in a long time in writing a D cgi application that > runs on the server and enables a reddit-like view of the n.g. postings, > as well as the usual n.g. nntp interface. > > The current archiving stuff > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/index.html > is a step in that direction, but it is not interactive and doesn't allow > posting. > > People would have two possible ways to interact with the n.g. - through > the standard NNTP interface using a normal newsreader, or the > reddit-style interactive web view. The latter would also allow logged in > users to vote + or -, have avatars, etc.
Just out of curiosity, do you or could you have a database running or would you want to use flat files for data storage?