Area: Miscellaneous
Feature: Floating topics
Developer: Nao (main?)
Target: everyone
Status: 10% (nothing implemented in the code; planned feature, please discuss your preferences.)
Comment:
This is one of the first features I considered for Wedge (and possibly one of the things that made me want to build Wedge at all), and unfortunately so far the only one I haven't done anything on, because we need to implement blogs and other details before we can even get started on it, so it probably won't be in the public alphas -- it may not even be in the final 1.0 release. I'm actually taking a minor risk by revealing this feature before it's even implemented, because it's likely to 'inspire' the competition. But on the other hand, I'd for one wouldn't mind seeing that in other forum systems.
Basically, the idea is that topics in Wedge are not just reserved for boards. A topic can be a blog post. It can be a media item. It can even be a profile. These special places can then benefit from some of the topic features, such as commenting on them.
So, topics get a 'type' field that represents whatever they are (profile page, blog post...), and allows Wedge to filter them out when showing only a specific type of topic. Users get to comment on floating topics, and their posts can be searched through the regular search engine, read through 'Unread posts', anything you could think of.
Feature: Floating topics
Developer: Nao (main?)
Target: everyone
Status: 10% (nothing implemented in the code; planned feature, please discuss your preferences.)
Comment:
This is one of the first features I considered for Wedge (and possibly one of the things that made me want to build Wedge at all), and unfortunately so far the only one I haven't done anything on, because we need to implement blogs and other details before we can even get started on it, so it probably won't be in the public alphas -- it may not even be in the final 1.0 release. I'm actually taking a minor risk by revealing this feature before it's even implemented, because it's likely to 'inspire' the competition. But on the other hand, I'd for one wouldn't mind seeing that in other forum systems.
Basically, the idea is that topics in Wedge are not just reserved for boards. A topic can be a blog post. It can be a media item. It can even be a profile. These special places can then benefit from some of the topic features, such as commenting on them.
So, topics get a 'type' field that represents whatever they are (profile page, blog post...), and allows Wedge to filter them out when showing only a specific type of topic. Users get to comment on floating topics, and their posts can be searched through the regular search engine, read through 'Unread posts', anything you could think of.