On 03/02/2010 00:44, Walter Bright wrote:
Yigal Chripun wrote:
IMO, we should have a registration system for regular people, not for
censoring purposes but for keeping track.
there are many posts by different people that call themselves with the
same name and it seems confusing and unproductive to me. people don't
have to register with their real names if they don't want to but at
least I could tell the difference between john and john1 when I'm
answering to john.
Also, regular folks can ensure by registering that no-one else can
reply to posts in their names.
I've thought about building such a system for these forums many times.
Registration would not be required to post, but registering would enable
features like voting on posts, establishing a profile, preferences, etc.
That sounds awesome. Another useful feature would be storing session
info in the profile such that if I read a post at work the post will be
marked as such when I use a different computer/news-reader like my home PC.
wouldn't it be easier to just use web forums (there are many existing
system with all the bells and whistles) and write a news-gateway for it
than to implement all the features for the current news-server? it'll
also fix the currently broken web interface for the NG.
