8 days. 8,000 forums
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8 days. 8,000 forums
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Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums
#2One of the reasons I really like Google Groups is that it lets me treat something as a mailing list. By and large, I want to use an email client for serious discussions, not a 'forum' thing. Adding this functionality would be super cool.
Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums
#3It is really snappy and nice, however I still don't understand why there isn't nested threads. It's such a pain trying to navigate around trying to figure out what is in reply to what.
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#4I think there is a massive market for an open source version of a service like this or disqus. An admin panel for management, and a embeddable javascript app in pages.
I wonder if www.discourse.org will ever look at making an embeddable js component.
Re: 8 days. 8,000 forums
#5One of the reasons I really like Google Groups is that it lets me treat something as a mailing list. By and large, I want to use an email client for serious discussions, not a 'forum' thing. Adding this functionality would be super cool.
Moot is primarly meant for websites and the goal is to keep discussion and the users on the site. This will make users come back and potentia.ly increase traffic on the site.
We're launching email notifications next week.
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#6Too bad this isn't open source, it's the only thing stopping me from using it. Probably gonna use discourse instead
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#7How does the embedding work, does it fetch html or does it fetch data and then build the html with javascript? When you navigate within the forum I imagine it does the same and loads in place. How close am I?
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#8It is really snappy and nice, however I still don't understand why there isn't nested threads. It's such a pain trying to navigate around trying to figure out what is in reply to what.
Moot has a concept of "paths" which allow you to setup unlimited discussion hierarchies. All parent paths contain all the moots from the children.
We're putting together more docs to help cover these concepts soon!
Single thread (which we call a moot) doesn't support threading. If you try to browse bigger threads here in HN or in Reddit you'll soon realize that you'll get lost. Especially when you come back to the site it's impossible to know what has changed. We think discussions should be chronological.
Later we're adding support for replying to replies (one level only) and a way to branch from the main topic.
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#9Too bad this isn't open source, it's the only thing stopping me from using it. Probably gonna use discourse instead
This is indeed the case right now. We're open sourcing big chunks of code later once they are nicely packaged and documented.
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#10How does the embedding work, does it fetch html or does it fetch data and then build the html with javascript? When you navigate within the forum I imagine it does the same and loads in place. How close am I?
Very close. It fetches JSON data from api.moot.it, generates HTML with JavaScript and places it on your site. And when you load another page it does the same thing, but only for a smaller portion of the DOM.