I came across Discourse recently; it's a forum built on Ruby on Rails, and I described it as the bastard lovechild of Vanilla and Google Wave. This is not a good thing.
But it does have some interesting ideas, most interestingly for me, it has 'Reply to New Topic'.
The idea is that you can hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic (e.g. as a quote or link) but essentially convert what would otherwise be an off-topic tangent into a new topic.
It's one method of keeping things on topic in what is essentially a flat topic model like we have.
Thoughts?
But it does have some interesting ideas, most interestingly for me, it has 'Reply to New Topic'.
The idea is that you can hit the reply button, leaving a reference back to the original topic (e.g. as a quote or link) but essentially convert what would otherwise be an off-topic tangent into a new topic.
It's one method of keeping things on topic in what is essentially a flat topic model like we have.
Thoughts?
