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Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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post #15

I see it took some good ideas from Stackexchange. Good. Since there's no contact email, I'm writing questions here: 1. Is it configurable, to get rid of "likes" and other cluttering elements? 2. I'd like to pay for not tracking my users. Is this possible?

1) Not in v1 but you can simply hide those like and other "clutter" with CSS since the forum is sitting on your site.

2) The data will reside on our servers and it's public. Later we'll have private posts too.

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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post #20

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Seems no one has made any real serious attempt to really modernize them.

Stack Exchange?

Stack Exchange is a break for the norm for sure. I guess I don't really consider it since it's not something you can setup on your site to power your own forums and commenting.

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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Perhaps the live demo shouldn't be flowplayer's customer support - when I clicked through to the demo the first thing I saw was a bunch of people complaining and I didn't realise for a while that it had gone to the flowplayer site, and made me think it was people complaining about moot. Just something to consider!

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems no one has made any real serious attempt to really modernize them.

Stack Exchange?

Yea. There are definitely something good going on with Stack Exchange but there is lot's of re-thinking on Moot

- forums can be embedded on our site with just a few lines of HTML and it works out of the box

- because it's a true integration with WebSockets and CORS technologies you have complete CSS and JavaScript control

- Moot includes commenting that is as easy to embed as forums

- The real-time aspect on Moot is not just an "cool add on", but the app is completely real time from top to bottom. All operations happen in place and everyone get's notified instantly.

- "My Feed" or "All posts" are simple concepts but you cannot see them elsewhere. Traditional forums are list of links that point to another list of links and you end up clicking and sufring a lot.

Maybe you want to try out search

http://flowplayer.org/forum/#!/search/welcome

To get sense of the speed too.

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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The concept of internet forums has mostly been gathering dust for the past ten years while the ways people discuss over the internet have changed profoundly, so some re-imagining is definitely in order.

Seems no one has made any real serious attempt to really modernize them.

I'm not sure of what you're imaging but 2 recent new sites somewhat related are:

http://www.branch.com/

http://www.pivory.com/

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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Perhaps the live demo shouldn't be flowplayer's customer support - when I clicked through to the demo the first thing I saw was a bunch of people complaining and I didn't realise for a while that it had gone to the flowplayer site, and made me think it was people complaining about moot. Just something to consider!

That's just temporary. We rushed out an early build of moot to coincide with the HTML5 Flowplayer release. The full moot release with dedicated moot demos is coming up eminently. I had the same thought as well actually.

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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Perhaps the live demo shouldn't be flowplayer's customer support - when I clicked through to the demo the first thing I saw was a bunch of people complaining and I didn't realise for a while that it had gone to the flowplayer site, and made me think it was people complaining about moot. Just something to consider!

Yea. You are so right!

Flowplayer simply offers us a very good platform to make it production ready. It is relatively high traffic.

Re: Moot.it: Forums and commenting re-imagined

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post #16

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Doesn't look like it, but quite a silly name choice for a product around online discussions.

"Moot" is an Old English word for a meeting, which I believe is still in modern usage. I've heard it used at any rate. So not that bad a name really.

it's also slang for ladybits in some areas. Humorous.
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