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News Site Plugin Idea
I was thinking (again) about using GForum to build a newssite like Slashdot. It really wouldn't be so difficult, there are only a few things that would need to be added/changed through a plugin:

  • Root post of a thread is the newsitem, replies are user comments.

  • Set all the forum permissions to "can reply but can't post" for most users. Obviously admin and a selected user group would need to be able to post

  • Different display for root posts (news) and non root posts (comments)

  • Different categories/forum would correspond to different news categories

  • New page/template that lists the last 10 or so news items (root posts)

  • Users can submit stories (similar to posting a comment). Submitted stories are stored in different table until they are validated/deleted

  • Submitted story validate/delete page for admin

  • user profile: submitted stories

  • etc etc



Anyone interested in this? Toghether with Paul's Karma plugin, this could be just like slashdot or php-nuke or things like that.

More ideas are welcome!

Ivan
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Iyengar Yoga Resources / GT Plugins
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Thread News Site Plugin Idea yogi 7314 May 17, 2002, 12:43 AM
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Wil 7145 May 17, 2002, 1:45 AM
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yogi 7164 May 17, 2002, 1:51 AM
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Alex 7192 May 17, 2002, 9:18 AM
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ArmyAirForces 7192 May 17, 2002, 10:21 AM
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agaffin 7129 May 17, 2002, 11:31 AM
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gotze 7162 May 18, 2002, 7:24 AM
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gotze 7131 May 18, 2002, 7:17 AM
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gotze 7083 May 19, 2002, 1:47 PM
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Alex 7098 May 20, 2002, 2:16 PM
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gotze 7098 May 20, 2002, 2:24 PM
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yogi 7107 May 20, 2002, 6:21 AM
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klauslovgreen 6701 Apr 12, 2003, 1:59 PM
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antoined 6834 Feb 11, 2003, 10:59 AM